to make people take their shoes off?

[suecy]

Moving into a brand spanking new house in a few weeks, loads of wooden flooring and pale carpets.

Want to have a housewarming for family and friends - c60 poeple. Is it really rude on the invite to say guests will be expected to take their shoes off, no matter what they are? Just don't want any damage to the floors.

Does it make me sound unreasonable? The alternative is not to have the party!

Not true LTW - I had a party the other week where I and several of the guests were wearing stilettos. Oak floors looked as new the day after. Despite quarter of a bottle of rum and an entire glass of red wine being dropped on it so it really wasn't a very sober affair!

Can you do your invites saying it's a pyjama party as you would rather not have all the girlies digging mini mines in yer wooden floor and make a joke of it.

Nope, probably not. I would just forget the idea until you don't care enough about the floor.

I was stupid enough to put a cream carpet in our 'nursery'. 7 years later it's now our dds room as ds now has 'washed oak' laminate in his room. (best thing I ever did, paint, modelling clay, vomit, cat vomit, it all comes up)

The cream carpet is terrible and I will be replacing it very shortly. It cost a fortune and it's still in tremendously good nick. But it's stained beyond repair.