A little man is now fitting our new shag-pile bedroom carpet – it was horrible having bare floor boards for one night, I don’t know how people can live with them, so noisy even with just slippers on.

Carpets went out of fashion?

Not in my house they didn’t, any way enjoy your new underfoot sensation 🙂

huh huh she said “shag pile”

Carpets for upstairs. Wooden floors for anything you wee or spill food on

so noisy even with just slippers on

Try losing some weight then.

I think she means like in 70’s gentlemans special interest magazines

No carpets in any room where bike maintenance might be undertaken.

I think that’s all of them.

No carpets down stairs so I can take a muddy bike in and a muddy me in and not worry about the mess

Carpets upstairs though

Talking carpets… And I agreeing with our OP and others.

What type of carpet should I be getting for bedrooms wool/synthetic/mixed?

And the going rate per meter for decent stuff?

IMO : carpets for everywhere except kitchen, bathroom(s) (quality lino in those) and hall (quality wooden floor).

MrsIHN wants tiles in the kitchen and a wooden floor in the dining room when we do it, a battle yet to be had…

tiles are where it’s at, baby yeah!!

What type of carpet should I be getting for bedrooms wool/synthetic/mixed?

Wool carpets seems to stand up better to cats than synthetic ones….

And the going rate per meter for decent stuff?

Think ours were about £35/m

Bare floorboards and thick chunky house socks is where it’s at, all the benefit of wooden floors such as ease of cleaning (especially with a few lifter boards) and i don’t have to worry bout dragging the muddy bikes through the hallway to their place in the bedroom.

The spirit of steptoe n’ sons is alive n’ well in my household 😀

House socks?

Nah… you need Haflingers:

In all fairness DD; you aren’t exactly impartial are you?

Carpets are nasty, hold dirt and get filthy over time – Wood flooring and rugs is the one true way!

We have wooden floors on the first floor where the living room and a bedroom are – and two small kids. In the kitchen downstairs the noise is quite alarming when they are jumping about.

Carpets are nasty, hold dirt and get filthy over time

Effective vacuum cleaners are available.

A little man is now fitting our new shag-pile bedroom carpet

Are you the woman from ‘To the Manor Born’?

still nasty even so.

Almost correct globalti 🙂 , Alpaca socks teemed up with Sole Exhale Shoes – not exactly the height of fashion but so handy and comfortable for plodding about the house n’ outside to get logs etc.

Carpetting gardens is sometimes known as astroturfing.

I want a piss catcher.

Tiles straight through hall/kitchen/cloakroom/utility downstairs and wood floors in dining room and lounge.
Tiles in bathrooms and wood floors everywhere else upstairs.
The only fitted carpet we’ve got is on the stairs.

Those silly slippers aren’t Haflingers. THIS is a Haflinger

Amazingly good 4WD in their time.

hard / wooden floors for practicality (e.g. kitchen, bathroom, downstairs hallway, dining room), carpets everywhere else for comfort.

Has no one yet asked if it matches the curtains?

Ah, ****. My astroturfing post is meaningless now.

There’s no way they could be back if fly-by-nights like me can still be earning. 😐

We have two dogs and hard floors (wood, tile, laminate) although hilarious, are gratingly noisy with the sound of claws clattering about. So we have lino in hall & kitchen, carpet in lounge & dining room.

And whoever said no carpet for bike areas is wrong. A carpeted garage is bliss 🙂