davepuma;346918 Wrote: > I'm in the process of having a new kitchen fitted and as I have to > replace the kitchen flooring (currently laminate) due to a leaking > washing machine, I thought I would do the living room as well. The two > rooms, which are relatively small are separated by an archway (1.5m > wide) and I know that it would look better if the two rooms had the > same flooring to give it a better sense of space. > > The living room is currently carpeted. The living room has a large > leather L-shaped sofa, curtains and a few prints on the wall. The rest > of the 'furniture' is an TV rack and Hifi rack housing a large screen > TV, Amps, AV receivers, bluray, SB3 etc. etc. and a SVS sub in the > corner. > > The flooring that interests me is the engineered wooden flooring as I > have heard it is more suited to kitchens than solid wood. Does anyone > think that I will effectively ruin my acoustics? Has anyone replaced > carpet with a hard floor (laminate, wood, tiles etc.) and regretted it? > I notice from the galleries forum that a number of you have wooden > floors. I would consider fitting a rug in the middle of the room but > don't want to hide the nice new flooring with it, after all, what is > the point in fitting wooden flooring if you're going to cover it up?
I have an easy single question to ask that will solve your problem completely. Here goes, is the sound of your system more important to you then what is covering your floors? If yes, keep the carpet. If no, then buy whatever you want and show off your new hardwoods. But to fix the sound change from the hardwoods, you will have to put a thick rug over it, probably add some funiture, and put some textile wall hanging up at the point where you can see your speakers in a mirror on the side wall from the listening position. By the way, for the kitchen, the best thing we have found is the new bamboo flooring. Bamboo is actually a grass and the way it is processed makes it harder then any hardwood you can buy. We used to have to replace the hardwood floors in our two beach rentals every 4 to 5 years. Since switching to bamboo, we have had no issues and still don't even need to think about replacing the flooring. Bamboo will take the hit from the largest pot or dish dropped on it and not even show a mark where the hardwood has a dent. Audio wise bamboo is better then tile, but nothing beats a proper subfloor with carpet. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53436 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
