Wood VS carpet

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Debating whether to put carpet or wood floors down on first floor in bedrooms and hallway. If it's carpet it would be 100% wool, in general quite light colours and little ones all quite young so maybe a recipe for disaster. If wood it would be engineered oak, and would have lots of patterned rugs about that IMO hide stains and stuff.

Has anyone gone for either carpet or wood and have any regrets/ recommendations?

Thanks!

Engineered wood every time. I have it in loft conversion, landing, living room, and hall. I am in process of having bedrooms done the same. So easy to keep clean. I had Osmo oil finish and I’m very pleased
with the result. Spills mop up easily. Be aware that it can scratch though. Furniture feet need protectors to prevent scratching.

Agree with Froniga, wood (or similar) every time

We went for wood. It somehow feels cleaner than carpet but the downsides are it scratches, especially when you move furniture about on it or when someone comes in with a stone in their shoe.

Rugs on it need that underlay stuff to stop them slipping around or rucking up and being tripped on.

Dogs fall down and their toenails clink on it. Dust blows about on it - tumbleweed balls of dog hair especially.

Next time I'm going to have some kind of textured, wood effect vinyl - warmer, less slippery, cheaper.

Thank you all for this! We have engineered hardwood downstairs. Absolutely covered in dog claw scratches but I just can't bear the idea of vomit/ poo/ wee in carpet (from kids).

Has anyone seen the "hardened wood" from Kite flooring? Looks like it's a cheaper version, kind of like laminate but still made of wood and no need to sand and oil to refresh.

We had wool carpets upstairs and downstairs, they look great, if you don't mind fluff. Plus then after being down a few years we started to notice where they'd been eaten by carpet moths, particularly at the edges/corners and on the stairs. We do live in the countryside though and maybe carpet moths aren't city critters?
As long as you accept that LVT etc isn't wood but a nice floor covering I'd go with that. But it's taken me a while to come around to thinking that, although it's also to do with LVT getting much better as a product.