Mums with toddler boys - what colour is their bedroom carpet and does it hide stains well!

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Redecorating DS1 and 2's bedroom, they have a cream carpet atm (was decorated pre children ) and need something indestructible as this one is trashed. Was thinking of going for dark blue?

Darkish cream with darker flecks in it with a kind of patterned pile. Sounds horrible, but actually quite nice. Hides stains pretty well.

we have beige-y kind of colour.

doesn't get trashed because they are not allowed pens/paints/food/drink in their room

After carpets getting trashed in the past we now have laminate in the kids bedroom with a nice rug.

Beige/sand colour, but almost all of it is hidden beneath 2 rugs. Cheaper to replace rugs than carpets.

No pens, food, drinks, toys, allowed upstairs.

mushroom with a big stripey rug[multi-coloured]

As per MaybeAfterBreakfast beige but no food, drink allowed anywhre but kitchen and pens and toys allowed in playroom. No shoes anywhere.

People comment they cannot beleive kids live in our house but it is just a matter of keeping muck in as few places as possible to make cleaning easier and less tidying required.

go for a wood floor ... it is sooo easy to maintain - far, far better than carpet!

carpet is dark beige walls mid blue on bottom light blue on top but done in the trade paint very scrubable also have rugs on his floor

but only allow pens in living room and im not too harsh on food snacky food but dinner living room we dont have dining room

I'm too lazy to monitor whether my kids have pens etc in their bedrooms .... beige/brown carpets seem to hide a multitude of sins and Vanish carpet stain remover is brilliant!

DO NOT GET A DARK BLUE CARPET !

Sorry for 'shouting', but DS's carpet hasn't looked clean since the day it was put down!

ah, we have laminate - twas like that when we moved in. It shows up ALL the dustballs, but I think I'd rather see them!

never ever ever ever ever go for dark blue- it will show absolutely everything-really every bit of fluff and dust. we had one in the lounge in our old house. it looked great when vacuumed and stayed looking that way for all of 15 seconds- seriously do not buy dark blue!

Please don't get dark blue. It will look lovely just vacuumed as risingstar says but otherwise will look horrendous.

DS has cream and a big rug. But actually neither are trashed anyway. There's never anything in his room that could trash it, other than bodily fluids! Drinks, paints, drawing and colouring equipment and food are all downstairs things here.

floorboards and washable rug!

I know vinyl isn't very eco-friendly but we have the one on the bottom left here with roads on

It ia BRILLIANT. You can buy it from a certain large chain of flooring shed shops - it was just that this was the only picture of it I could find on Google...

We bought a cheap rug from Argos with road scene. Pattern was so busy that it hid most things. This was also over vinyl

When the kid got older we threw out the rug and strangely the vinyl looked as good as they day it was put down.

thanks everyone - DS's aren't allowed paint, food etc in their rooms but the carpet is trashed from grubby footprints, spilled medicine etc and looks dirty rather than anything else - that's why I was thinking of blue. Will have to have a rethink now