Like a lot of people, we have vinyl (linoleum) flooring in the kitchen, my husband laid porcelain tiles in the bath years ago. On the main floor, the living room, hallway, bedroom and den has carpet. The stairs going down to the finished basement is carpeted.
The basement, like the rest of the house when we bought it almost forty years ago, had ugly brown and blue shag carpeting. We ripped that up and just put a plain vinyl flooring downstairs in the main (family) room, and the extra bedroom down there is carpeted....room extension and bath is vinyl. We do have some large area rugs down there since we lived down in the basement while my in-laws used the main floor in their later years. Cold hard vinyl flooring in winter is not great for people like me who prefer no shoes in the house. The laundry room has a cement floor with drain.
Some people have wood floors or laminate, but all the ones I've seen have most of the floor covered with an area rug. To me that means cleaning/polishing of the wood floor, plus vacuuming of the area rug....and if you have pets, cleaning of them also.
I like the warm feel of carpet in winter, and as I get older, I like less and less the idea of wood floors and rugs that may fold over, buckle and be a trip hazard. But I do really like the look of hardwood floors. In our first house we had wooden floors in the bedrooms, and it was nice.
What kind of flooring do you have in your home? Are you happy with it?
The basement, like the rest of the house when we bought it almost forty years ago, had ugly brown and blue shag carpeting. We ripped that up and just put a plain vinyl flooring downstairs in the main (family) room, and the extra bedroom down there is carpeted....room extension and bath is vinyl. We do have some large area rugs down there since we lived down in the basement while my in-laws used the main floor in their later years. Cold hard vinyl flooring in winter is not great for people like me who prefer no shoes in the house. The laundry room has a cement floor with drain.
Some people have wood floors or laminate, but all the ones I've seen have most of the floor covered with an area rug. To me that means cleaning/polishing of the wood floor, plus vacuuming of the area rug....and if you have pets, cleaning of them also.
I like the warm feel of carpet in winter, and as I get older, I like less and less the idea of wood floors and rugs that may fold over, buckle and be a trip hazard. But I do really like the look of hardwood floors. In our first house we had wooden floors in the bedrooms, and it was nice.
What kind of flooring do you have in your home? Are you happy with it?
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