Carpet or laminate for 5 year olds bedroom

[Coffeesnob11]

I have just moved into a do-er upper and am doing my child's room first. They are 4.5 year old. Would you carpet it or put in hard floors and a rug? As an aside we now have a space downstairs for all the toys so I don't know if that makes much difference and only water allowed in the bedroom.

Many thanks

Carpet for kids bedroom. They're on their hands and knees a lot playing, and its warmer, which will help with heating and coat if living. Rugs are a trip hazard too.

Carpet.

We had hard floors upstairs in a previous house when the kids were little and I didn't like it. It was good for messy play etc. But crap for sitting on to comfort a child who was awake in the night or sit to play with them on It was also cold in the winter etc. We now have carpet upstairs and hard floors downstairs which I much prefer.

We’ve got engineered wood flooring and a nice rug. Far easier to clean.

Hmm, we had the opposite for our kids-hard wood floors with large inexpensive rugs that were anchored down by furniture ( to help prevent tripping).

It worked out for us, because there were some incidents that required replacing the rugs…I won’t go into details but bodily fluids were involved. 😂

Laminate and cheap rug any day of the week 😂

Laminate All the way!

We've just moved and put carpet in our DC bedroom. Like a pp said it is warmer and cosier, definitely needed in our old house! It's a bleacheable carpet too so not too concerned about accidents. In the old house we had cheap laminate in the bedrooms but it was cold and got dirty/dusty really quickly.

Good quality laminate and thick large washable rug.

Carpet for a kids room. Far warmer to sit and play on.

Carpet.
Less noise and also far nicer to sit and play on.

Had both and much prefer carpet.

I really regret a hard floor in my child's bedroom. Dust and tiny bits of dirt are so much more obvious, and it doesn't feel as cosy, even with rugs. I think it looks a bit naff and cheap tbh, so will be changing as soon as I can!

I would say carpet too. We had laminate throughout our last house and it was never properly clean - really dusty.

Won't carpet just hold on to dust and dirt causing sneezing and allergies?

Perhaps it depends on your child. DS had a tendency to leave it too late to make it to the bathroom in time when he was younger so carpet would have been a bugger to keep clean. He preferred playing with Legos to responding to calls of nature 😂. Our house has hard wood floors anyway so it was easier to get thick rugs and I chucked a couple of them when he’d had a few too many “incidents.”

The best underlay you can get & good cosy carpet.

s/he (why the they business?) can do messy play downstairs & unless they have a disability, they just need to be taught that it's not acceptable to constantly leave it 'too late' to use the bathroom. I'm sure you'd have mentioned if that was an issue anyway.

carpets are far better for insulation/noise & when a bit older, sleep overs.

carpets can be cleaned.