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Originally Posted by carol_piirto
We are looking at houses with tile floors. Everything is wonderful except the tile looks like it could be cold and uncomfortable.
Has anyone ever taken tile up in the great room and replaced it??
If you left it, how did you make the living room feel cozy?
...Never lived anywhere with tile (other than the bathrooms).
Thanks!
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I sense you're seeing it as I do, that it's not so much
literal "coldness" but
aesthetic coldness as in "
institutional" feel that too much tile can cause.
One reason many people tear out carpeting here and don't get more carpeting is because it is often
cheap carpeting that fuzzes and mats and shows traffic patterns far too soon. Buying better quality,
dense carpet that is nylon and
not polyester is a good solution to that for living rooms and bedrooms.
Also, engineered hardwood flooring is a nice solution here with the concrete slab underneath. Some engineered hardwood planks are interlocking (lock and fold flat) and can be floated over vinyl or maybe tile, and some are not lock and fold and need to be glued down on the slab. The hardwood looks beautiful (if not a cheap grade), and this provides a friendly, inviting atmosphere like "home" and "family room", not a bathroom nor institutional look.
And there is also laminate "wood-look" flooring that looks realistic in better grades, and is durable and quiet......but it's sometimes more expensive than the real wood or tile or carpeting.
Get what
you like!