Carpet or not?

No carpets for me either. Two dogs and a cat I am so grateful for hard floors. We have tiles and laminate flooring. Our elderly Jack Russell had some continence problems before he died so carpets would have been a disaster. When I wash my floors and see all the dirt I am so glad it's not going into carpets. We have rugs to make the rooms look more cosy.

Good point about the dirt we easily mop up

We have carpet on the stairs and the bedrooms. I would not like rugs on a hard floor in the bedroom in case someone tripped on them.

My personal preference is for carpets in the bedrooms - quieter, cosy and really not dirty as long as they’re vacuumed regularly, and shampooed every so often ( either doing that yourself if you have a shampooer/can hire one or get someone in to shampoo & deep clean).
We’re all different, though, and one persons preference is another one’s anathema.

I removed all carpets throughout the entire house many years ago. The cats I had over the years brought home mice or worse and frequently killed the animal on a carpet and although I cleaned up immediately it was never quite the same.

I did have a very large rug in my lounge but got rid of it because of my sight and mobility problems I tripped, fell flat on my face and ended up in ina POP.

I have a rug on my side of the bed and 3 on the landing on the way to the loo. Ceramic floors in the kitchen, bathroom, downstairs loo and hallway. The staircase is painted white but I have a stairlift so it is rarely used. I would not have it any other way now.

I have a cleaner but in between it is so easy to see a dusty area or mop up spills.

We have hard flooring downstairs (hall, dining room, kitchen and boot room) and carpet in the sitting room, on the stairs/landings and in the bedrooms.

Next door (attached) has wooden floors throughout, and the noise is awful, particularly when their children run up the stairs and in the bedrooms. That's in our house, and it's old and fairly well built. It must be even worse for them being directly underneath. I wouldn't have hard floors upstairs for that reason. I might change the sitting room carpet for hard flooring, but I tend to kick my shoes off in here, and a carpet under my feet is nicer, I think.

We have carpets in the bedrooms and on the stairs. En suites are tiled as is the kitchen. Downstairs we have oak flooring with large mats. Best of both worlds really.

I like carpets, hard floors look cold to me. Like a school room or restaurant. To each it’s own though,

kittylester

We have carpet everywhere, apart from the hall, but our house has big rooms with high ceilings and would be freezing and echo-ey without carpets but, if it works for you, go for it.

Yes, kittylester it's a matter of personal choice.

We need a new bedroom carpet.

Carpets everywhere for me except kitchen. Love it. Certainly no dangerous rugs anywhere ever.

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I have a rug in the dining room. It hasn't bared its teeth at anyone yet .

henetha

It's a matter of personal choice.
Personally I detest hard floors, - the noise, the coldness, the lack of cosy softness on your feet, and have carpets everywhere.

Are you a shoes off family?

LVT through kitchen, utility and back room, hall and bathroom.....sanded floorboards in lounge and 2 bedrooms...carpet on stairs...landing and one bedroom.....large cosy rugs in both reception rooms ..... I like to sweep and mop daily.....hoovering never feels as 'clean' ...to me that is

Oiled wood floors main ground floor rooms with tiled hall and kitchen. Rugs in lounge and dining room. I think fitted carpets unhygienic, but do have them for comfort in bedrooms. Ground floors all well insulated so floors not cold or noisy at all.

Hard floors are noisy for neighbours. Sometimes hard flooring is banned in flats because of the noise. My adjoining next door neighbour has nasty laminate everywhere, even on the stairs, and it’s really noisy for me.

No Louisa1523. Love carpets but they are old...😁

I had laminate in the living room ,hall and porch and vinyl flooring in my old house and carpets everywhere else.

When I moved I knew I never wanted laminate in my living room to cold. I moved to a 2 bed bungalow . Living room and bedrooms all carpeted in the same plain carpet. Tiles on the floor of the shower room with thick mats for getting out of the shower and same Karndean flooring in my kitchen and hall. As my daughter said it all flows.

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Another advantage of any sort of hard floor, is the ease of moving furniture on them. Carpeted floor means that sofas and even large armchairs can be quite impossioble to move as we get older. However, on my Karndean floor I can easily slide my riseer/recliner chair to clean underneath it (Iand find things I have dropped), also electric sofa and my tv table pulls out easily on those occasions I need to get behind it to the spaghetti. I could never move any of these when I had carpet in that room.

We had wooden floors and rugs throughout the whole of our last house. I liked the look of it, but had to admit carpet is much more comfortable and softer in the bedrooms. Could buy a Vax carpet cleaner to go with the new bedroom carpets- they are as easy as an upright vacuum cleaner to use.

Are we talking fixed carpeting or loose? My mum tripped over her rug and broke her pelvis so for that reason I'd never have a carpet/rug on a hard floor, but carpets wall to wall are very much warmer.

We are in the same situation. Our bedroom is carpeted and needs changing. I would love a hard floor covering and mats. Our problem is moving all the furniture out of quite a large bedroom. That is two book cases, a chest of drawers, two ottomans and a double bed and two side cabinets. We need to move them somehow (fitted wardrobes) for carpet or hard flooring but don’t know how to deal with the problem. We are in our eighties and our energy has depleted somehow. If I were you I would definitely go for laminate as you can always add larger mats if possible. It is only stair carpet that I want.

Energy depleted somewhat not somehow!!!! We know how 🤣

Franbern

Another advantage of any sort of hard floor, is the ease of moving furniture on them. Carpeted floor means that sofas and even large armchairs can be quite impossioble to move as we get older. However, on my Karndean floor I can easily slide my riseer/recliner chair to clean underneath it (Iand find things I have dropped), also electric sofa and my tv table pulls out easily on those occasions I need to get behind it to the spaghetti. I could never move any of these when I had carpet in that room.

Why keep spaghetti there?😄A late night snacker?