Carpet/floor advice

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Any recommendations for a carpet or other flooring for living room of family with a dog! Basically husband wants carpet to make it cosy. I thought hard flooring would be better with the dog & maybe get one of those ruggable rugs. Advice welcome!

I’d go with a big rug. Carpeting an entire room gets expensive with cost of underlay, grippers, carpet and laying.

Looped pile is not recommended with animal claws I believe.

It's hard to maintain carpet with a dog. You'd probably need to go with a darker colour and dark carpet has a way of pulling all the light out of the room

I don't like hard floors in sitting rooms, I like carpet, not rugs.

regular vacuuming helps.

commercial carpet cleaning with powerful carpet cleaning machine cleans much deep than home carpet cleaning machines (they're handy for immediate use on spills etc, but don't deep clean)

can that room be closed off when not in human use & the dog have a bed in another area also?

Some friends only allow their dog in its bed in the lounge, not on the furniture or rug etc

other friends allow their 2 massive labradors on the furniture (because they were once adorable, small puppies and they didn't think ahead to the two 40 kg dogs jumping up, walking around and plonking down on the furniture 😂😂 that said, they also have 4 teenagers, so being too precious is probably a tad pointless.

It never smells though & they're not terribly house proud (ie it's not been cleaned in the three years they've had the large corner sofa & they don't Hoover more than once a week)

Hard floors can be slippy for dogs, a worry if they are a breed prone to stuff like hip problems. In that case, if you go for a hard floor, perhaps one that's low-slip in finish would be better than a highly glossy one.