Have Floor Covering Options - By: dharmaraj

Now I know that in certain homes, bare, polished floorboards look wonderful, giving the illusion of light and space and if they are highly polished they can look amazing. The Scandinavian look is fantastic, light and bright and minimalistic. However I really don't think that in chilly, rainy England, we suit that look at all. When you have a climate like ours you need cosiness and warmth.

I often think that people want to be constantly reminded of their holidays in warmer climates. Hence the need for lots of light and no carpets. When I was a child, not many people could afford fitted carpets, they were a real luxury. Instead you had carpets that were more like enormous rugs and they didn't quite fit to the edges of the room. Therefore you had bare floorboards all the way around the outside of the carpet. I hated those bare areas. It was nice to walk on a nice woolly carpet, but if you were just toddling around in your socks, you sometimes slipped on the floorboards, and in certain rooms the floorboards were not polished so you would end up with a splinter in your foot.

The day that our fitted carpets arrived was indeed a red letter day. It was sheer luxury to see miles and miles of carpet as far as the eye could see, and even better to walk on. For many years, everyone had fitted carpets in their homes and then, for some reason, it all changed. Now everybody is jumping on the bandwagon, they want their rooms to be bare and light and to have vast expanses of floorboards. Rooms like that look fantastic in the pages of magazines but I can't help thinking that the reality is somewhat different.

When you have carpets and you want to keep them clean you just get out your Hoover and off you go. However, floorboards need sweeping and polishing to keep them looking good that's two processes where you only need one if you have carpets. Most homes these days have central heating, but I really don't enjoy the idea of getting out of bed in the morning to find my foot making contact with a shiny, polished surface. I like to feel the warmth of a carpet, something I can really dig my toes into.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, when your full bladder wakes you up and you have to pad along to the bathroom in your bare feet, it's no fun to have them touching a hard, wooden surface. You can make your way to the bathroom and back in an almost trance-like state of semi-consciousness, still feeling warm and cosy from your bed, finding it much easier to snuggle down and go to sleep again afterwards.

I would like to think that the days of austerity are long-gone. People in the not too distant past used to lay newspaper on their floors to add a little warmth and to protect the floor. We have progressed since then. When the skies are grey and the wind is blowing and it's pouring down with rain and you have just come home, and kicked off your shoes, there is nothing more appealing than the feeling of a cosy carpet underneath your feet.

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