[laceylady]

We built recently and chose large light color tile on the diagonal everywhere but the bedrooms. I would have chosen the engineered hardwood for the bedrooms but I did not likes the choices the villages had available. All was too dark and too plain. I have seen beautiful hardwood in new houses back home in WA state. So we put carpet in the bedrooms and later will get wood on the open market where we have a wide variety of choices.

I did notice early on, that tile is hard on your legs. I cannot walk around in socks or barefoot as I like to do. I have to have a pair of hard soled shoes--tennis shoes are fine--on when in the house. The carpet in the bedrooms is a nice relief-I can walk barefoot in there.