Hello Bashir. Your upstairs do not have to be carpet, but you are spot on about the noise they omit downstairs. Obviously carpets will have the best absorbance of sound, but floating floor timbers are not too bad either. They are laid on a foam underlay which help with their leveling and make them soft underfoot, but this also absorbs sound. The thick planks are better for insulating against both noise and temperature, and I would recommend the extra cost. As you upstairs substrate flooring is bound to be a particle board, and not a cement sheeting, laying tiles would be costly, and messy. Cement board would first need to go down, them tile adhesive, tile and lastly grout. I'm tired just thinking about that process. Also, tiles are more permanent, and outdate quicker, it is easy to remove floating floor and re-lay carpet upstairs if you so wished, however removing tile and going back would be a nightmare. For this reason, avoid tile! Go with a timber floating floor instead. Or even better, consider leaving bedrooms crept, and just re floor the main living areas and walkways. Tile any wet areas like toilets or bathrooms. Good luck.

Hi Dorothy, the rental market is quickly becoming more fastidious - they don't want to vacuum, and there are an ever growing number of people with allergies. then there's maintenance - i suggest you'll be replacing carpet every 3-5 years, so it's a false economy. cedar is making a come back - we have a lot of projects similiar to this and one option is it's 'too much wood' is to simply paint it. Cedar has plenty of wonderful properties, so even if you don't love it aesthetically, i'd keep it. but to balance out the colours and not feel like you're in a sauna, i'd brave it and select a timber with a completely different colour - don't match - instead, compliment the cedar with a contrast. perhaps a black timber floor, or, if you want to lighten u the space, a beached timber floor. if budget is a big constraint, then Vinyl is a good product, but for just a tad dearer, you can go for gold and get marmoleum. people often mistake vinyl and marmo for the same - they're completely different - marmo is an organic product, so will wear well, won't release loads of toxic VOC's into the air and doesn't harm the earth. good luck!

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