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Hardwood floors are cleaner and easier to keep clean. Wood is more durable. Carpet holds dirt. Carpet wears out, especially in traffic areas. If you want to change the decoration style in a room, an area rug is easy to change and wood floors go with any style. Wood floors are classic, stylish and more appealing than carpet. Remember the green shag or pink plush carpet of the 70's or 80's? Ripping all that out and replacing it was dirty, smelly, and expensive.
Hardwood never goes out of style.
A friend just told me that no one wants a hardwood floor any more. Hardwood floors make a house look old-fashioned,
So. Hardwood floors? Yea or nay?
Yay for hardwood. Those LVP floors that are currently the trend are going to look as dated in a decade or so as shag carpet and fake wood paneling on the walls.
Your neighbor has an opinion. Not all opinions are based in fact.
What catches my interest is there might be an element of ageism or a judgmental early adopter hidden under that. As far as floors making a place look old...
Hardwood is very desirable where I live...in fact it was on my list of things I looked for in a house. The majority of the rooms needed to have solid surface flooring (preferably hardwood and ceramic tile...I prefer more natural based things). Hardwood floors are easier to keep clean and they aren't as cold as synthetic floors (ceramic is nice but is freezing in cold weather...we only have it in bathrooms and kitchens). I despise carpet.
I just pulled out all carpet and was replacing with vinyl plank. I was trying to find a vinyl plank that I like when I looked around and found a hardwood that I like for $3.95 a foot. The better quality vinyl plank is $4 a foot.
So, what the heck, I called my flooring installer to make sure he installs wood, and I am doing the entire house in hardwood.
I like vinyl plank a lot, but because I have been looking at vinyl plank all over the place, it occurred to me that the public might get over it after it is no longer "the latest thing" and they have seen it all over and gotten tired of it.
The "old fashioned" comment caught me off guard. but I know that the younger buyers don't seem to like wood of any kind. They want things to look like plastic, like the "white kitchen" cabinets that look like they are made of Melmac over chipboard, and they want furniture made of metal and glass instead of wood. So maybe they don't like wood floors either.
No matter. It is my house and I am getting the floors that I like.
Adding, I find it a bit odd that vinyl plank printed to look like it is a wood floor is the in thing, but real wood is not OK.
Agreed, that is very odd. Grey-grained vinyl does not look anywhere near real to me but I see it all the time in real estate ads. Wonder how easy it is to remove from hardwood?
Oh and hardwood all the way here.
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