Finally moving house!!!

[Harrison]

That is also true. My wife only keeps her own stuff.

According to her all my stuff is junk and clutter and taking up space she could be using as a guest bedroom. Amazing logic, to have a guess bedroom that might get used 3 times a year at most! Instead I managed to reach a compromise. We are using the smallest bedroom as a guest/spare room and she can have a small desk in my room for her school/office work.

Which has just made me realise, I've not mentioned the new room I will have. The room over the garage will be my office/study/games room. It measures 17'8" by 8' (5.38m x 2.06m). Nice and large to finally set everything up how I want it. I will post some pictures of that setup once it is all finished, as the room will need decorating and I need to get an electrician to install extra plug sockets and remove a very dodgy looking single bar heater which is currently installed above the main window! (I could do that myself but by law you have to get a qualified electrician in). Once that is all done and the room painted it should be great. I might also need to replace the carpet, but we've not been able to really look at and inspect the house carpets until we finally move in next week.

I'm also considering installing Ethernet around the house as I'm going to be pretty much renovating and decorating every room.

I'm also considering starting up a blog about the house to document the progress from start to finish. We have so many ideas it could end up being great, and documenting it should motivate us (me mainly) to work on it more.

[Stephen Coates]

Sounds good. I'll look forward to you posting pictures of your new space .

[Demon Cleaner]

Do you still have carpets in your house(s)? Is that common in the UK, or is it only because it's an older house which has not been renovated since longer time?

[Harrison]

A lot of people do still have carpets in all rooms of their houses (other than the kitchen). However for quite some time now it is more common to have wood or laminate flooring downstairs and carpets upstairs. It's how we have always had it. My parents however do still have carpet downstairs too.

With the house we are buying, at the moment the whole house has carpet, but being a 1930's house a lot of people have got rid of the carpets and stained the floorboards downstairs as they tend to be very good boards.

Most UK house have stair and upstairs carpets though.

One thing I always find strange though is carpet in the bathroom. This used to be fairly common until the last 30 years.

I know a lot of countries in Europe have mainly tiled floors, even in the bedrooms. But they tend to be much hotter places in the summer.

What do you have? And what is most common in Luxembourg?

[Stephen Coates]

We've always had carpet in the bathroom. Never had a problem with it as it as it only gets wet if you are really careless. I think its more comfortable having carpet in the bathroom.

My Dad's current house has a tiled floor in the bathroom, and that always shows up the dust.

[Demon Cleaner]

We mostly have tiles everywhere in the house. I have f.ex. laminate in my 3 bedrooms, like you said, it's not as cold as tiles. But usually you put rugs/carpets around to make it warmer.

I remember when I was a kid, that at that time there were also still carpets in every room, but it's just so unhealthy, especially for little kids crawling over it and inhaling all the dust.

[Tiago]

little kids crawling over it and inhaling all the dust.

That's the biggest point.