The wooden floor in our old bathroom was fantastic. And it warmed up even more because we had ducted heating in there. People freak out about wooden floors in bathrooms because they are scared of water damage but we never had a problem and we weren't precious about them either.
I'd only do tiles with underfloor heating but we'd have to rip out the tiles to put in underfloor heating so might as well choose something else methinks.
Tiles in both houses - both of which are in cold climate so we know about negative temperatures - and wouldn't do it differently. Bathroom here is tiny so one bathmat covers most of the room. Our new house will also have tiles.
It stays so wet in the bathroom when it is cold, you'd need uber-sealed timber in there (or solid hardwood floors like they have in old houses) or you'd get moisture damage from hell. We can't leave towels or bathmats (we rotate the bathmat) in there or they simply don't dry. I have laminate timber in the kitchen and it already has water damage near the oven from condensation on it so I'd never do laminate in a bathroom.
I may have to come over to your house and walk on your cork tiles barefoot with a thermometer Tinks! Have always loved cork but never had it in any house yet.
They're very warm Fionas! Warmer than our wood floors. I really like them, they reduce noise and are quite soft under foot, if I drop something on them it just bounces. Ours need re-sealing though, they're looking very dull but that could also be because I use the steam mop on them when I shouldn't (naughty me).
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They're very warm Fionas! Warmer than our wood floors. I really like them, they reduce noise and are quite soft under foot, if I drop something on them it just bounces. Ours need re-sealing though, they're looking very dull but that could also be because I use the steam mop on them when I shouldn't (naughty me).
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