Has your teenage daughter got carpet in her room?

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Having a dispute with DH about this!

DD is 13. We've agreed as her birthday present to redecorate her room. Her carpet is 3 years old and wrecked - she's a lovely kid but can be careless and the carpet has nail varnish and acrylic paint on it which will never come out. It never looks clean even when freshly hoovered. She does try to be careful (and no longer paints up there!) but accidents do happen.

I don't want to pay out for new carpet that's just going to get grubby again. I'd rather she had laminate and a rug that can be cleaned. DH says nobody has hard floors in bedrooms.

Just wondered if he's right! What flooring do your teen girls have? I grew up with floorboards in my bedroom so don't see it as weird!

Teens have carpet but we have wood & I love it. If I was replacing carpet I would have hard floors & a rug

Just get a cheap carpet. Laminate floors are cold in my experience.

In an old house I had the moth eaten carpet taken up and the floor boards painted white, it looked nice with a thick rug. Cheaper than laminating and can be recarpeted at a later date.

My entire place has laminate, I hate carpets, you can't clean them properly and sooner or later they smell.

You can also get some really nice vinyl these days.

Carpet is seen as very common and nasty where I live.

DS has floor boards, they're unfinished pine so lovely and warm but as he gets older and starts doing more stuff in his room we'll put a finish on them. He has lots of lovely rugs, a big sheepskin by his bed and different little rugs around the room. I love that I can take them out and beat them/clean them easily and wash the floor. Carpet is actually a bit yuk unless you clean it which is a ball ache.

Laminate is the of the devil IMO, looks cheap and nasty. Hardwood floors are lovely but can be noisy and cold.
Our old house had laminate upstairs which we ripped out as it was horrid and noisy and made the rooms feel cold.
We have bleach-able carpet which is dead easy to clean, it is a soft and deep pile and looks and feels lovely but is actually bombproof.

We have nice thick carpet in our room
But dc's have cushion floor in they're rooms which has a wood effect it looks really good with a rug and isn't cold atal.
Dh had to lay ply boards underneath for an even looking floor but it looks great.
When they make a mess it's a quick hoover and steam mop and it's good as new!

Floorboards and rugs here, we would have carpet if we could afford it though- her room is big!
I wouldn't be too keen to buy new carpet for a child who had form for spilling nail varnish.

We ripped out laminate and Karndean (it was a horrible design) and just sanded the floors. Ideally, I'd put a rug in my daughter's room but she sounds like your for getting paint everywhere .

Leave the existing carpet. I wouldn't buy a new one for someone who couldn't be careful but I wouldn't put laminate in the room. I'm not sure how a rug can be easily cleaned and the carpet can't though? Surely whatever she has dropped is either cleanable or not?

Hate laminate flooring.

My house is sanded and varnished floor boards upstairs. Next door is the same. The noise is horrendous, even with rugs. Last night my phone fell off the bed and the noise echoed round the whole house. You can hear every footstep upstairs. I am carpeting the whole thing.

Vinyl is brilliant, we have it in the bathrooms. So much warmer than tiles and it looks so good that I would definitely consider it in a bedroom. Laminate is much harder wearing than wood and doesn't "look cheap" unless badly done. That's just ignorant.

Laminate is cold and noisy upstairs.
We all have real wood upstairs, me and eldest dd don't have rugs, but youngest dd has a large rug, as she still played on the floor when we did the rooms, but we had to replace it as it got dirty, and the 2nd one now needs replacing.

I hate laminate flooring.
It's the worst.
Crap just moves around it, it's never totally clean, fluff and crap all over the place. Feet constantly cold.

I'd never ever go for laminate flooring.

I'd sooner but a cheaper carpet every few years. Which is exactly what we have done.

We also have quite a hard wearing light coloured carpet on the landing which you can just wipe over.

When I either move house or redecorate, my ds's bedroom is having cushion floor down that looks like laminate, he has ruined the carpet, spilling things & not cleaning them up or telling me so I can clean it up, with cushion floor I can whizz round with my Bissell Crosswave. The flooring will stay cleaner but will still feel warm under foot.

I vote for floorboards and a cheap IKEA rug!

Carpet for bedrooms, its warmer than anything else and quieter.

"I'd rather she had laminate and a rug that can be cleaned."
If a rug can be cleaned, why can't carpet?

And maybe cleanability is not the only factor to be considered - as Dollymixture22 noted, noise from hard floors can travel.

My 13 year old dd has laminate with rugs. Shes heavily into make up and carpet was trashed laminate so much easier to keep clean. Had a sound proofing layer put under it.

I wouldn’t recommend it , we went from hard floor to thick fluffy carpet in DD room , 5 months later make up stains everywhere 😥need to call in the carpet cleaner

My son has lino. I have lino. My daughter has laminate , it was my room but we swapped so she did have lino before. Doesn't make the rooms cold, easier to clean. I only have carpets on the landing and stairs here. I hate carpet 😂

We’re switching to hard floors upstairs. Carpet is minging.

we have vinyl~(amtico)in bedrooms.my sons room has a huge floor sized thick rug too.(which i roll up if hes ever sickly(

We had carpet in our last bedroom but sanded the floorboards and had rugs which was a big mistake. Yes, rugs can be washed but it was the opposite of cosy - so cold, hard and noisy. Never again.

If DD chose her own carpet would she take more care of it?