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[quote=Anonymous]For those of us who live in the north where winters are very cold, hardwood floors are beautiful but hard to live with.  Unless you run heaters under the floor, walking on them during the cold months -- which here far exceed several months of warm -- is unbearable.  You'll need to get out of bed and immediately put on socks and shoes and keep them on.  That's the temperature side.   Personally, I have walked into many homes in many areas with wide expanses of uncovered floor and the homes do not feel inviting, cozy, or like you want to settle in.  Sterile comes to mind.  Contemporary and cold in feeling, not temperature.  Plus there is no noise reduction possible from those bare floors.  Even throw rugs don't accomplish noise reduction and they break up a large room.  A friend put in berber in her large living room.  That looks really nice and does help with the noise reduction.  It buts up to a walkway area that they tiled with a dark stone.  Looks great.

There's a reason, folks, that people of yesteryear opted to move away from their wood floors used for decades and decades.

Personally, I'd never live in a modernistic, contemporary home filled with wood floors and tiles.  I'd also never buy a new modern home.  Ugh.  Doesn't feel like a nest at all.[/quote]

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