Tiles at the bottom of the stairs

[BroccoliSpears]

We were all set to get our hallway tiled until my friend expressed horror that I could think about having such a hard, unforgiving surface at the bottom of the stairs with young children in the house.

Hadn't occured to me!

Mumsnet jury? Over to you.

Bump

(But hopefully not bump bump bump bump crash ow)

Bump.

Trip.

Splat.

Actually, all this bumping is putting me off the idea.

Hmph.

I would - you could place a fashionable rug at the bottom?

How old are the kids?

Ooh - you made me jump Lewis! Had got quite used to rattling around in here all alone .

I can't decide if the rug would have enough of an effect on potential head cracking hardness of tile floor.

Children are 20 months and not yet born.

ohhh could be painful, i fell down the stairs the other day, it really hurt and that was on carpet

I've moved into a house with tiles at the bottom of the stairs. I've got a rug there but it doesn't look right. However the alternative (no rug, beautiful hallway and hideous head injuries) is even less attractive to me. If I were you I'd wait until the children were older.

We have (horrible nasty brown) tiles in the hallway at the bottom of our stairs. It's not been a problem for us. ds is nearly 4 and dd is 21 months and they've been fine. Even when dd lies down on the floor to get into her snowsuit and lets her head bump down rather quickly on to the floor, she doesn't complain.

We will replace the tiles soon (I hope) but they will be replaced with more tiles.

we've got tiles all over our house apart from wood floors in bedrooms, so living room floors, stairs etc etc. I fell on them once, ouch, but all of my kids have survived infancy, crawling, learning to climb stairs and they're on the clumy side too. I'd say go for it. They're extremely practcla, lovely and quiet and very quick and easy to clean.

How often do you actually fall down the stairs? Not often.