Asking people to take their shoes off

[miche8]

So then is it considered rude to ask people to slip their shoes off when they enter your house? we have cream carpets and young children that play on the floor. I always take my shoes off if visiting someone else or i ask if they want me to.

I would be horrified if my DC started to tell visitors to remove shoes and that mummy would have to clean floors- I would tell them that being polite to visitors was much more important than a floor!

So rude to ask people to take shoes off! Most visiting children take them off before going upstairs, probably because my DC do, more for comfort than anything else.

I want people to feel comfortable in my home. and it's so tiny it takes 2 minutes to mop