carpet and kids = stains floorboards and kids= marks tiles and kids = great ..we had terracotta tiles ..not cold at all with nice rugs loved my tiles ..easy to clean ..didn't show up dirt or dust not like floor boards the kids drove their trikes around inside the house..mud dragged in can easily be wiped off..no need to re-polished

I like rugs because it feels nice on my feet when I'm too lazy to put socks on.

DanMac86......it depends on where you live as to how often you would need to paint. I’m expecting maybe 7-8 years. To be honest we cheated so we didn’t have to paint the whole house. We virtually only painted the front of the hours and a couple of metres up the side. You would need to pick your point to stop like a gate. If we didn’t have water views I would have put white shutters on the windows. I just picked that outside colour to fade away the primrose. The other option is to just paint the external frames of the windows which most painters will do. This then gives you the wider options for an external colour. We just didn’t because it’s on the beach and saltwater etc. Good luck! Cass :)

Hard wood! Carpet shows ware and stains (no matter how careful you are) - if you must have carpet, keep it in the bedrooms. Hallways and other high traffic areas should have a more durable option used