Who has carpet and why???

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we just have it in the bedrooms, stairs and landing, but am considering the living room as spillages seem to be reducing.

so who has carpet....pros and cons please.

I have found our rooms are quite noisey without

oh nas if you dont have carpet what do you have

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It just makes a room feel cosier and you can walk around in bare feet.

the kids like to roll around on the floor wrestling n stuff. I want a really deep pile carpet...been such a long time since we had carpet, well not since the kids were born

reduce noise especially on stairs
warmer in winter
cat fluff does not roll like tumbleweeds across it
Children don't slide across it on mats and break their arms
child falling out of bed onto wood floor get nose bleeds, carpet or mat by bed stops this!!!

I have wood in 2 bedrooms, bathroom and tiles in kitchen...you need slippers in winter!!!

any recommendations for a really nice carpet.

one colour, no swirls

ahhh yes miggsie

but dont you worry that with carpet you dont see all the fluff n stuff, i shudder when i think what would ingrain in the carpet if i had one

carpets are dirty
we do have carpet up the stairs though and in 1/3 bedrooms.

We have very pale coloured carpet throughout, except for the bathrooms, kitchen and the garden room/dining room. It is fine. Spills are sorted immediately and then they don't stain. We have even had a full glass of red wine spilt all over it, but it ws cleaned up straight away (with help of white wine!) and no stain at all.

Other floorings:
kitchen/bathrooms - vinyl
dining room (garden room) - laminate

I do wish I had had laminate ut down all through ground floor - the lobby and the hall way, leading t dining room. People tend to leave their shoes on down there and the carpet is showing the signs of this.

Laminate is a real PITA to keep clean IME.

stripped floors in hall and living/dining/bedrooms
rubber in kitchen
tiles in bathrooms

• Textured (non slippy) ceramic tiles in hallway through to downstairs loo and kitchen

• Floorboards with large thickish wool rug in living room

• Carpet in dining room, on stairs, upstairs landing and bedroom 2

• Laminate in bedroom 3

• Floorboards in bedroom 1

• Vinyl tiles in bathroom

So a right mixture!

The laminate shows the tumbleweed (and scratches etc) MUCH more than the floorboards and tiles do - the floorboards are quite gappy so much of the dust disappears.

The living room rug is the item that needs the most regular cleaning out of all of the above as it seems to attract the most obvious dirt and fluff.

Know what you mean about the coldness, slippers/flip-flops are definitely essential in our house all year round - but you get used to that.

Overall I prefer the floorboards and large rug option for living rooms, you kind of get the best of both iyswim.

Carpet - better insulation for warmth and sound. Nicer to walk on, nicer to sit and play on, less likely to hurt if you slip or fall on it.

Acrylic/ nylon carpets are not very nice though imo.

HATE HATE HATE carpet.

I have a filthy one in my living room and cannot wait to rip it up.

I have oak flooring downstairs, and coir natural 'carpet' up the stairs into the loft. Its probably as dusty as carpet, but just looks cleaner and more natural.

i have carpet - i spend a lot of mula on good living room and stairs carpet that lasts a long time.

cheapo carpet is the pits.

Carpet in bedrooms (cosy), on stairs (noise-reducing) and living room (padding for my bum as I sit on it with my laptop, ousted from the big sofa by DD and from the little sofa by Sleeping Beauty, a Care Bear, Tigger, several taggies and a Boden bandana). Laminate in the dining room and hall, different laminate in the conservatory, tiles in the kitchen, vinyl in the bathroom and downstairs loo. In a different house I'd have stripped floors wherever I could, with big rugs for warmth, but it wouldn't suit this one (60s box).

Carpet is a berber which is pretty forgiving of spills, unlike the flat colour long pile ones we took out not long ago, they were so utterly minging I don't know how we put up with them for so long.

We have them in every room but the kitchen.

And we hate them. Filthy, a PITA to clean, faffy.

This is a rental property, however, so we can't get rid of them.

In an idea world we'd have wood floors with underfloor heating.

I hate it, personally...

Have it here as the floors are cement underneath, so it's that or vinyl which we have in the kitchen.

However we are moving to a flat which has the most vile carpets, eaten by moths and just very grimy. I am hoping to rip them up, sand, seal and have rugs - despite it being a rental property I think they will be only too glad to have it done.

I love wooden boards as you can't see the dirt, they are easy to clean up spills from and you can always add a rug if it's cold.

Oh and I am going to have cork tiles in the bathroom

Bliss.

(The kitchen has yukky brown brick shaped floor tiles but at least they are cleanable...)

Our living room is cold without carpet. Carpet makes it cosier imo. But DP won't hear of covering up our floorboards. We have carpet in the bedrooms and on the stairs.

Same as other people have said, carpet is so much nicer in terms of warmth, cosiness and noise insulation. We have been on holiday to self-catering cottages without carpet and really haven't like it that much.

Our neighbours don't have carpet and I can't describe the noise as they are clunking around inside their house!

Get wool if you go for carpet.

I also quite like very varnished cork tiles in a holiday home we rented - that seemed warm and because of the natural pattern hid the dirt quite well.

Watch out for moth though if you have wool. They are eating away round the edges of ours!

we have a cream carpet in the lounge (well, was a cream/beige wool mix actually, so not plain flat cream IYGWIM), and have had it now for 10yrs!!!

it still looks fab, has cleaned up wonderfully (I have it cleaned once a year), and considering the five children, three of whom were refluxers so we had lots of sick all over when they were tiny, it has lasted so well.....but then, it was a pricy one at the time (was an insurence claim thro some idiot nameless person melting the previous carpet with an iron) so we paid for just half of it anyway.

it has got very thin now tho, and we are looking into extending in the summer hols (arghhhhhh, but too) so we will be ripping it out and laying wood throughout the entire downstairs (we had wood in the hall and kitchen already, stairs and upstairs carpeted tho......cream on the stairs too).....

I am a wee bit concerned about the noise etc, but looking forward to mopping up the spills which have got more as they have got older for some strange reason.

Carpet is the work of the devil. I can't wait to get rid of ours. It will probalby be repalaced with oak.

Carpet's just minging.

There's nothing nice about it, especially now as underfloor heating is a possibility with so many flooring options.

I grew up in a hot climate, and many homes are tiled throughout.

Ah, the coolness of bare feet on clean tiles and no vile bugs using your carpet as a rent-free house.

I'll never, ever get my head round the love of carpets in the UK, or carpets in a bathroom or loo. BARF!