Playroom flooring/walls

[Bananacentral]

We are about to convert our garage into a playroom for DS who is nearly 1.
I’m stuck what to do for flooring/walls.
We obviously are going to need something that is easily cleanable but all the floors I’ve look at seem really hard and with a learning to walk baby I’m not sure what is best for comfort as well as convenience.

Also should we go for wipeable paint? All other walls in our house are flat matte finish or wallpapered! Not familiar with other paints options!

Anyone have any ideas? Or even some ‘must haves’

TIA

Dulux endurance.

Our nursery had wood effect sheet vinyl with the thickest underlay they could find underneath. It was fab, soft but wipeable. If you want something less kiddy-centric, maybe laminate or click vinyl with a big rug?

Also, bear in mind there are soulutions such as adding alphabet foam mats etc which can be disposed of. As the not walking properly phase last so short in the grand scheme of things. So you could get the floor you want (underfloor heating is nice as it probably gets cold).

Ah underfloor heating in a playroom would be amazing! We are past the phase now but I well remember the days you invite people round and you all end up sat on the floor playing with the little ones.

We looked at underfloor heating but a little out of our price range with all the other costs of building the room!

Great point about getting floor I want and just getting mats on the top when he’s still bumbling around like a drunk man

We had wooden flooring throughout when our kids were crawling. As someone said up post the alphabet flooring is a great temp solution and the benefit of a wooden floor is that they get up from their knees and into their feet quicker 🤣

We’d love to have wooden flooring matching the rest of our downstairs (lovely solid oak) but it was put in before we moved and we cannot find a match so we’re going for a nice luxury patterned vinyl for a contrast rather than trying to look like we’ve tried badly to get it to match! Hoping vinyl is fairly child friendly and wipeable!!!