When you're aware of the advantages, maybe you can find a house you like that already has hot water baseboard heat. If you are having a new home built for you, ask the architect or builder to specify hot water baseboard heating. If you are modernizing a home that has hot air heating, you can leave the cooling system in place but replace the furnace with a boiler, piping and hot water baseboard radiation. Baseboard radiators are mounted on the wall but the bottoms of the front panels have adequate clearance for carpeting to fit underneath. You can place furniture directly in front of baseboard and you will not interfere with safe, gentle, convection heating.
Radiant heating is installed by imbedding special hot water tubing in or under a floor.
In some cases you can heat the whole house with radiant floor heating. More often, however, it is used to heat cold floors in selected areas such as a bathroom, kitchen or hallway, using baseboard heating in the rest of the house. Radiant floor heating radiates heat naturally upwards and warms the room occupants evenly from toe to head. No cold feet. It is most compatible with a baseboard system and draws hot water from the same boiler as the baseboard.