Carpet or not?

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good point about the dirt we easily mop up

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.

Karndean is expensive but I’d recommend it. If I was starting again, I’d have it throughout downstairs, other than porch, utility, downstairs shower/toilet room `(aka the dog room)

I had quickstep flooring with insulation laid all upstairs, in fact the only carpet I have is hard wearing sisal on the stairs. No chance, ever, of moths hiding in carpets. Last house I could see moth-eaten areas under the bed, when I moved. That was not even wool but was sisal

Rubber castors on beds make them easy to move on quickstep and hence very easy to clean below and behind. You would be shocked at the sheer amount of fluff that accumulates very quickly, easy to see and clean

In my house I had hard flooring downstairs and carpet on stairs and in all bedrooms.

When I moved into this flat there was carpet everywhere (I mean everywhere - including both en-suite and bathroom). Although I got rid of those area carpet on the day I moved in I decided togive myself a yer todecide whether to have new carpet or hard floor in the Living Room/Hallway.

During that year, I carefully, with al ot of work, cleaned the carpet that was already there, a very good quality but old one. My decision, however was made, when I knocked over a newly m ade tall tumbler of banana milkshake. I mopped this up immediately as best I could.. However, for the next sevcen days I was steam cleaning that area of the carpet, and could still smell that stale milk!!! Had it been a hard floor, it would have taken me five minutes to mop up and wipe up that spillage.

No contest - had Karndean flooring laid, lovely rug. It is not at all slippy, nor cold, - it is in a golden oak colour and looks beautifully warm. So easy to clean, a quick hoover over once a week, particularly around /under dining table. I still spill all sorts of liquids on it, and these are mopped up in a few minutes. Only carpet I have is in my main bedroom, even hard floor and rug in spare bedroom.

Now that we are all aware of energy bills, it is true that carpet and underlay provide excellent insulation underfoot.

No carpet for me!

We carpeted the stairs landing 4 bedrooms 10 years ago. Carpets still,good, they get cleaned professionally alternate years.
Downstairs wooden floorboards hall and front room, laminate back sitting room, karndean kitchen dining area. Tiles conservatory, utility and front porch. Rugs in downstairs rooms.
I have a large lab. They shed twice a year, October to May and May to October. I have a small well behaved spaniel who often asks me why she has to share her home with That Labrador. She sheds but there’s no comparison with mega puppy. I have a dyson animal which does all downstairs morning and often tea time as well.
I wouldn’t change this - the carpets upstairs, wood down I mean, not the dogs… it’s easy to keep clean. Carpets wouldn’t be

I please myself as I couldn't care less what anyone who doesn't live here thinks and I have predominantly carpet with very thick underlay. So the only rooms without carpet are the kitchen, bathroom, utility room, downstairs loo and conservatory all of which are tiled. No laminate anywhere as I can't stand the stuff.

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.

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.

I forgot to say I do have carpet on the stairs for safety but nowhere else.

We have hard floors in our kitchen/ dining / living area . And hall . Carpets upstairs. We have underfloor heating in the bathroom .