to think laminate floor is not naff?

[Laquitar]

This snobbery about laminate floor and leather sofas gets on my nerves.

They are not naff, they are PRACTICAL. You can keep the floor clean, really clean.

Carpets are filthy and they smell.

We had a lovely -and clean- decade when laminate floor was 'trendy'. Now someone has decided that it is 'naf' and i fear we are going back to smelly carpets.

AIBU to think they are ok and should stay?

I have tiles in hall (profile pic) nice but BRRRRR!

Anyone have wood/laminate stairs-without carpet treads or a runner?

With a dog and all of us spilling all sorts it is really practical, so I don't care.

All I know is when I have mopped the sick off the floor and wiped the snot off the sofa I can relax in the knowledge that it is really clean!

Although, I have a front room which is the opposite though, cloth sofa and carpet.

diddl

i wanted to have a plain stair and everybody told me that it will be too dangerous for the children. So in the end i've put a runner. It looks nice but i'm not happy as i like to be able to mop the whole house.

In the other house, in Cyprus, we have marble (common and cheap there) stairs and nobody has been killed. But everybody tells me to leave the runner to avoid accidents in the mornings when we rush downstairs and maybe they are right.

I'm daydreaming of removing the runner and paint the stairs - white and then paint it in the middle like runner in different colour for each stairs (am i very tacky?)

Do you worry about it being slippery too?
I'd love to hear from others too.

''i wanted to have a plain stair''

Is that like liking a high heel, or a chunky knit, or a loose pant?

52Girls

A 'naked stair' then?

Oh dear, Laquitar. You have been 'Gokked' !

Well, we have a strange house with stairs from the lounge to the dining room.

So, if we have wood/laminate in lounge & dining room, what do we do with the stairs?

My poor stair 52Girls

diddl i think wood on your stairs would look nice. But if you have small children might be slippery? If you dislike runners i thing there are some anti-slip things to put on stairs, i don't know what they are called.

Does anyone know?

No young children-but we do all tend to walk around in "stockinged feet".

I don´t dislike runners-just wonder if it would look odd with carpet on stairs between two carpetless rooms iyswim.

Oh, I think they are just called stair mats

I've got laminate everywhere - as you all know - and a runner on the stairs. It doesn't look odd (i think) but i want to get rid of it just for cleaning reasons.

But as you know by now i'm not the most stylist person so i hope other posters give you their opinions.

You need Noddy, where is she?

We have stockinged feet and children and no carpet on stairs and it is great. Warm and not noisy . Have a pic from Xmas on my profile thing - I am proud if them because stripped stairs are great and cheap but they took work!!

Those look great esp with teh floor.Was it there when you bought the house? V lucky!

People who have wood/laminate in the dining room-do you also have a rug or anything to stop the chairs scraping?

''People who have wood/laminate in the dining room-do you also have a rug or anything to stop the chairs scraping?''

The dining room isn't used too often, we eat in the kitchen but we have those pad things from Lakeland to stop the scraping.

OK!

It goes round in circles, doesn´t it?

I remember my parents having a runner up the stairs-with metal rods, & a square of carpet with the wood showing around the edge of the room.

And caster cups(?) under furniture!

And turned spindles which they boarded in-and then unboarded years later!

Caster cups. Oh yes. We had those under the velour three piece suite. How very 80s. !

thanks Noddy yes it was but i have brightened it up and re grouted it - it has grown on me - at first i thought it cold and a bit tatty but graft has paid off