I've found over the years that it is often difficult to make a purchase for the home that turns out to do what you want it to. Painting is a labor, flooring a speculative venture. We have a large sun room on the back of our home with magnificent tile flooring. Only problem is that in the winter it is coooold and the cold air set up a draft that made our most usuable rooms cold also. The solution has been to run the furnace higher, but even that did not do away with the draft. The tile was wonderfully cool in the summer so wall to wall carpet didn't seem right, plus the tile itself is beautiful to look at. We've gotten a carpet made to lay out in winter months that can be put away in summer and it not only matches everything wonderfully, it also has effectively put a blanket on our heat loss. The room is so much warmer that it is astonishing. And the adjoining rooms are equally more cozy. Sometimes you have an idea and it just doesn't work out. But this time . . . the idea worked.