Wooden Floors

We have used light oak wooden flooring in this apartment in the lounge and entrance hall and white laminate in the bedrooms and I love it,it's so easy to keep clean and looks spacious with the apartment not being that big,in our apartment in Spain part of the Community rules where that if you lived above ground floor you did not wear shoes that would cause annoyance to your neighbours and if anyone did walk around in say high heels you could ask the Presidente to speak to them,politness goes along way as well don't you think.

A week ago Giles Coren, in The Times, reviewed favourably a restaurant in Manchester which had fitted carpets which looked like floorboards; this combined the trendy bare wood look with a solution to the acoustics problem. Sounds (interesting choice of verb!) a great solution.

When my DD and future SIL moved into their house they went for wood laminate flooring. DD is now regretting it. DGS is becoming mobile but trying to crawl on a laminate floor is not easy and its not a cosy play surface. I could have said I thought this at the time but one has to be diplomatic.

My son and DiL moved into an Edwardian house last year. It has polished wood floors throughout the ground floor which give it a rather mellow look. The family take their shoes off at the door or wear Crocs around the house. When we were young, there were no wall-to-wall carpets and my parents were lucky to have acquired hand-me-down carpets from relatives, round which the floorboards were varnished with something called Darkaline. When we had a loft conversion, my dad did carpet the bedrooms with some awful blue stuff that looked like felt and 'fluffed' dreadfully when trodden on. He must have got it cheap somewhere!
I had wood effect laminate laid in the kitchen and dining room which gives a feeling of continuity and space; but in the rest of the house I kept the perfectly good carpets left by the previous owners.

To sook
Like the rhyme- the only saying I know is:
"We aim to please, you aim TOO please"

As someone has said, there could be something in your lease. It is in ours.
But I draw the line on carpet in the bathroom.

On the subject of the lease: we have it in ours that the whole house (5 flats) have the right to share the loft. This can only be accessed from our flat; how would that work?

Reddevil Not heard that one before

DD has floor boards throughout and fluff builds up all round the edge of the rooms and under the furniture. It would drive me nuts having to sook it up with the hoover each day, at least with a carpet you don't notice it so much . In our old kitchen we had vinyl flooring designed like painted Scandinavian floorboards. Most people thought it was real and asked if I had painted them myself which I thought was wonderful as I can't even draw a straight line

When DD laid laminate flooring in the living area of her house she put purpose made underlay down first, It was a layer of some kind of foam and a silver backing. Its main purpose was to insulate the floor under the laminate but I would imagine used under laminate above ground level would also act as sound insulation.

I have wooden floors in the hall and dinner, apart from the kitchen and bathroom which are tiled have carpets everywhere else.

Can't image not having a carpet in the bedroom I wouldn't want to get out of bed to a cold floor on my feet.

You are right about the build up of fluff Gally I am always chasing tumble weed down my hall.

You are correct tiggercat - I think that the majority of flat leases stipulate that all floors have to be carpeted. I live in a flat and this is in our lease. It is a rather obvious requirement - to be fair to all the other tenants

It was stipulated in our deeds but most of our neighbours went ahead with wooden floors anyway. My sister is beneath a flat that has ceramic tiles in kitchen and bathroom, sounds like a tap dancing cart horse when the woman is trotting around.

We have oak floors in the hall, kitchen/diner and back room but with rugs! Front room, stairs landing and bedrooms fitted carpet with ceramic tiles in bathroom/loos. Accept it can be noisy without rugs in flats!