Carpets versus wooden floors

[oliveoil]

do we:

a) put down new carpets
b) sand floorboards (shudder)
c) laminate

Have inherited carpet and badly done laminate at the moment.

Need to do up house to make myself think I live in a nice area. Ha!

PS - Is sanding floorboards going to be as horrific as I think? Don't pick b.

but cod, doesnt the fact that you feel the need to mop so often make you think about the guck living in the carpet?

Carpet for the lounge. We had sanded floorboards in our first house, not too warm, or comfy if you're on the floor with children.

Real wood laminate anywhere else, especially the dining room, hate the mess on carpet when Dd2 has been eating! But definitely no carpet in kitchen or bathroom.

We put carpet down as we thought it would be kinder on little feet learning to walk/crawl etc.
Now Aged 2.5 years it is looking grubby.
Whenever ds vomits, it is an awful hardship getting rid of smell etc..and not very hygienic i think.
I will be going for laminate next i think.

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We were going to get wooden floors until the place we had in Sweden put us off. The noise of 4 kids playing echoed everywhere, toys rolled under the sofa, the furniture rolled about. My knees really hurt when I knelt down and the baby slipped over a lot. On the plus side we had a very long hallway which the older ones used to love sliding down in socks...

I am not getting a difinitive (sp?) here ladies.

I am thinking carpets. MIL has carpets and dd2 seems to roll more there (!). Friend's house seemed cosier with carpets.

BUT the dirty marks . And squidged in food.

where do u eat? Can you put carpet in the lounge and ban food? My kdis arent allowed food in the lounge even though it has wooden floors! Plus get carpet treated to resist stains.

I want it to all run through though, not have diff things in each room like now.

What about carpets in the lounge and buying a 3-in-1 cleaner

I have carpets in cosy living areas - i.e. lounge, bedrooms, stairs, landing, playroom and laminate in areas where it would just be hassle having carpet - bathroom, kitchen, hallway.

I couldn't stand laminate or wood in the lounge or bedroom.

wood wood wood for us.

Warm slippers are a must, though, as we also don't wear shoes in the house.

Laminate with kids is a dream. So clean, never any worries about spills / ground in food / dirty shoes etc. I don't think I want to go back to carpet even though I know it's fashionable now. We even took up the carpet in ds's room and put in laminate, now he can do what the devil he likes in there and I don't care.

We have wood floor downstairs - its lovely.
Now hate the carpets upstairs !
We have laminate in conservatory & its deffo colder that wood but more durable.

Laminate / wood can be tricky if you have little ones as it can be slippy if running about in socks !

p.s. however we do have wood in our (shared) bedroom, but I think wood is dusty and draughty for a playroom.

I love sanded floorboards (but get someone in to do it !) - its what we have and you don't have to worry about spills. DD has had no problems with it - she is 7 months and we have a big play mat which she happily rolls off on to the wood floors and around on the wood floors without batting an eyelid.

somebody else to sand the floors downstairs (easy to clean, looks great,can cover them later if you want)
nice warm soft carpets upstairs so no clonky footsteps

Hi Olive.
Thank you for the CD!
Wooden floors rule in our house upstairs, sandstone downstairs.. Only have 1 carpet on the stairs!