Advice: carpets vs painting times

[RunningOnHope]

Just looking for a bit of advice as I'm getting myself tied in knots here.

I'm moving into a house in mid October elsewhere in the country and it needs new carpets and painting in various places. We're trying to work out how much can be done beforehand, as some bits are urgent and it will be harder once all our stuff is in - but decorators are generally booked up until November.

The most important thing is my daughters room being sorted before we move in - it needs painting and carpeting, currently has no flooring so can't be put off til later. We've got the painting for that room organised, but because it's last minute, the decorator can't do anything else until after we've moved in.

But carpeting needs to be done in other areas, eg hall/stairs/landing, which also need to be painted. So our options seem to be:

• Get all the carpeting done before we move in, so that the daughters room is ready, but that does mean that further paint work will be done after new carpets are put down in those areas. Seems risky - but if being done by professionals presumably they do successfully protect carpet?

• Get the carpet only done in daughters room now, leave further carpeting until after the rest of the painting is done in November - but this means after our furniture is all in, so more disruption, and also getting a carpet fitter back twice which I imagine is more expensive than doing it all in one go? I don't know that for sure?

Am I assessing the options right? Have I missed an option? What would you do?

I'd leave all the carpets that it's possible to leave until after the decorating is done. It's not about the drips from walls and ceilings, that's just a question of getting the right sort of sheeting down, it's how you do skirtings with carpets still down. The carpets need to be taken up to do it properly, and need to stay up until the paint is hard dry. With oil based paint that's days, even with water based ones it usually means a layer or two, so a day or two. Otherwise you get that tide mark of carpet fibres mixed with the paint that bad amateurs get, which has to be sanded off to do a proper job.
I doubt you'd save much on the fitting doing all the carpets at once, and if you had to have them up again and refitted after painting, it would definitely cost you more. If you leave down all old the carpets you can until after painting, you only have to fit the new ones once, after painting, you won;t get any paint on the new carpets, and you'll get the best possible job (refitting them never quite works quite as well), and possibly it may even be cheaper too.
Either that or just wsh the skirtings down and live with them as they are if they're in reasonable nick paintwise and you don't want a colour change. If they're not chipped and dinged, a good wash down can often make them look newly painted.

Thank you @BlueMongoose, I hadn't appreciated the impact of skirting boards - my partner says that they definitely need doing (someone else's grottiness being less pleasant to live in than your own!) so I guess sorting daughters room first and coping with the upheaval later is probably the way forward, if we can't get someone in to do the other rooms asap.

Or, if you don't wish to catastrophise you can get paint shields to put between carpets and skirting.