Pad Patter: 1/3 - Flooring

[Angie4b1g]

What type have you?

We are getting hardwood installed in our living room/dining room starting tomorrow, so I just spent the last 2 days getting ready for that. Not sure how I'm going to manage 2 dogs and 5 kids without access to the main floor of my house, so that part should be fun. And with this weather, they're sure to have a couple snow days next week.

Before that it was carpet. When we moved in, the whole house was carpet. I've replaced it in most of the bedrooms with laminate, and in the bathrooms with tile. We're almost there once this is done! Just have 2 bedrooms left to do and the upstairs hallway, which I didn't care enough about to have done at the same time as the rest of this.

 

[alb52]

we have hardwood and the basement has carpet. i miss more carpet but area rugs are good - so easy to clean and change out! oh, tile int the bathrooms.

good luck with your floor install, angie!

 

[Roboliver]

Hardwood in dire need of a redo & tile in baths & kitchen.

 

[rmcabana]

We have hardwood floors in the living and dining room and tiles or linoleum in other parts of the house. I remember having to live with my grandparents back when my parents had this floor put in. The dog at the time stayed home by herself in the kitchen and my dad would come around back to let her out and feed her a few times a day.

 

[VickyD]

Hard wood flooring in the living room and downstairs entry hall, carpet up the stairs and on the landing, carpet in Ty's room and ours is yet to have any type of flooring laid, so bare floorboards! I must get. Around to making our room a bit more homely, it's just a dumping ground for boxes, my ironing room, and where I hang my clothes to dry in the winter! I want a beautiful bedroom with hardwood floor and a HUGE rug

 

[tkradtke]

We just moved into a new house in November. The main floor and upstairs are entirely hardwood (except for the bathrooms). The basement is all carpet (except bathrooms and an area around the wet bar). I really, really like the look of the hardwood, but we haven't gotten any area rugs yet so everything is very echo-y.

 

[bderby]

We have tile everywhere except for the bedrooms.

 

[Karen]

We have tile in the bathrooms and kitchen and carpet everywhere else except hardwood in the dining room. We are going to replace the family room carpet in the next few weeks though. My hubby wants hard wood, but financially I think we're going to have to stick to carpet.

 

[sushimommy]

hardwood floors in bedrooms, living room, and hallways. 14" tile in the kitchen/dining room and laundry room, itty-bitty-evil tiles in the bathrooms

 

[mollyc]

we have carpet in our basement, tile in all bathrooms and the mudroom, hardwood in all other living areas, and in my studio laminate.

I have an intense distaste for carpet. Our basement carpet is okay, but that is because we built our house so are the only ones to have lived here....having lived in several rentals in my adult life, two of which when we were building, has left me scarred for life with the kind of stuff that never comes out of carpet.

 

[lorryfach]

I hate carpet. There is NONE here, on purpose. Hardwood in the kitchen and Marmoleum everywhere else. We laid it down ourselves and made a Tetris design in the living room.

 

[mummyd]

we have hard wood flooring everywhere downstairs, ceramic tiles in entrance hallway, my new kitchen, downstairs loo and conservatory will all have slate tile effect wooden flooring that is once they are finished being built, went and ordered flooring today for those rooms, we have carpet up the stairs and in children's bedroom, wood flooring in my bedroom

 

[karen perry]

Good luck we ditched our carpet for flooring a few months back can't believe the difference for the better too

 

[KarenW]

Our tiles are a tale unto themselves. W have just built a new house and one type of tile is everywhere, from the front thrught the kitchen, family room and hallway. They are just gorgeous, very light. Unfortunalty during the build, someone decided that their bathroom needed our tiles and a number went missing. This was not picked up until a week before we moved in. No worries though as it didn't really affect our moving. They then had to reorder more from somewhere overseas, to get matching colours (no they aren't very expensive, just hard to locate apparently).

They arrived two months after we moved in, but the geniuses who reordered didn't get enough, leaving our front entrance slightly tiled with lovely bare concrete surrounding it. And now we can't get matching tiles. Sigh. So looks like all will be ripped up (including kitchen and family room), looking forward to that. The bonus is everyone who visits gets to point out that we have no entry tiles - we don't get sick of that - much!

We also have carpet in just 3 rooms and lino wood planks for all the kids rooms and the rumpus - very pleased with this.

Good luck with having no floor Angie - it will all be worth it in the end!

 

[threeunderfour]

We just got our bedroom re-floored as a Christmas present. So the week leading up to Christmas I was exiled from my master bath while hubby laid new tile, then the day after Christmas, all the bedroom furniture went on the porch so that new carpet could be installed! It was kind of a pain as it happened, but now that it's done, it looks so amazing!

Our living room, dining room and back staircase are engineered hardwood (best for humid weather in FL)
Bathrooms, kitchen and entry are all tile
Bedrooms are carpet. Ours is new. The kids' rooms are old. The lady who lived here before us thought "swimming pool blue" was the best carpeting choice.....sigh......they are getting replaced when the bank account catches up.

 

[lauracw]

Ok, so we just moved in September and we came from all carpet (even in the kitchen EWWWW!!) and our new house is all hardwoods and laminate. How are you guys cleaning your hardwoods?! I have like a push mop thing and a floor spray, but I hate it. Is a steam mop good? I love how they look but cleaning them is driving me crazy.

 

[toriloowho]

Our upstairs is carpeted, except for the laundry room and bathrooms which are tile. Our main level is a mix of hardwood and carpet. The hardwood goes from the front hallway into the kitchen/dining area and then carpet in the family room and my office area. We're planning on changing out the rest of the carpet to wood on the main level at some point in the near future.

 

[Angie4b1g]

Our tiles are a tale unto themselves. W have just built a new house and one type of tile is everywhere, from the front thrught the kitchen, family room and hallway. They are just gorgeous, very light. Unfortunalty during the build, someone decided that their bathroom needed our tiles and a number went missing. This was not picked up until a week before we moved in. No worries though as it didn't really affect our moving. They then had to reorder more from somewhere overseas, to get matching colours (no they aren't very expensive, just hard to locate apparently).

They arrived two months after we moved in, but the geniuses who reordered didn't get enough, leaving our front entrance slightly tiled with lovely bare concrete surrounding it. And now we can't get matching tiles. Sigh. So looks like all will be ripped up (including kitchen and family room), looking forward to that. The bonus is everyone who visits gets to point out that we have no entry tiles - we don't get sick of that - much!

We also have carpet in just 3 rooms and lino wood planks for all the kids rooms and the rumpus - very pleased with this.

Good luck with having no floor Angie - it will all be worth it in the end!

Oh my word. Guess I will quit complaining. LOL