Hand picked Italian experts did the marble floor and Fred bloggs did the other end but left the nails sticking out
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I have carpet in a couple of rooms, tiles in laundry, bathroom, toilet and sanded, varnished floorboards in the rest of the house.
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The house has hickory wood floors - a disaster with three (down from five) active dogs, with wall-to-wall in the bedrooms and ceramic in the laundry room and baths. The little vacation place has travertine and I love the looks of it and it’s so easy to care for. The downside is that it is cool under foot in winter, so I have put down area rugs in places we tend to be barefoot.
I am currently making arrangements to sell a vital organ to cover the cost of replacing the hickory in the house. I am thinking about LVT like Dachs has or a porcelain tile that mimics the look of marble.
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I have a plain neutral wool mix twist carpet in every room in my bungalow which has suspended wooden floorboards.
In the three rooms with solid floors (the kitchen, utility room and bathroom) I have a vinyl floor covering.
I am just about to have a new kitchen fitted and will be replacing the flooring, so am looking for something different to the old fashioned “roll of vinyl”
I definitely don’t want wood or any kind of “wood effect” laminate.
My new kitchen will be in shades of grey, so I’m thinking of something that looks like slate, travertine or grey-ish tiles - but I don’t want the “real thing” because it can be so hard and cold.
I have been told one can buy some kind of sheets of vinyl that “click together” - they look like tiles made from natural materials but have the benefit of vinyl softness and warmth.
I have seen them laid in someone else’s house and it looked good, like slate grey tiles, but I don’t know what it’s called.
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If I had a choice I would ban all wall to wall carpets. You can have just as much if not more warmth with the right flooring underlay if that’s what you are after. Carpets are a disgusting magnet for dust and dirt and goodness knows what. I hate hoovering carpets. You lay a hardwood floor and it lasts forever. Did I mention how much I loathe wall to wall carpeting?
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How do you manage that with your dogs?
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Talking of carpet. When I ripped up all the carpets in this house to sand the floor boards they still had the black stain for about 300 to 600mm round the edges of the room from the days when you bought a carpet nearly as big as the room. There were days before fitted carpets.
The carpets themselves weren’t actually carpets they were felt (rabbit fur) I think it was called Feltex. The only carpet I kept was an Axminster in one of the betdrooms
They are no LVT but ceramic tiles. 
No way would I have a carpet with dogs, it would stink in no time…I won’t even put my rugs down, at the moment…
No matter how much jack is groomed, his bedding stinks after a week, straight in the W machine it goes, his cage hoovered and cleaned every week…that’s where he sleeps at night, he has the run downstairs and has his own chair bed ,which has a duvet on it…and a waterproof cover under the duvet.
My friend had a small dog, she never washed her bedding and never wiped her paws after being out in mud and rain, the place stank of dog, i wasn’t the only one that noticed either…plus the older they get, the more they smell.
What the carpet, or the laminate Annie?
The laminate is the non-shiny, non-slip stuff so we don’t slide and fall over, and they don’t go into the carpeted front rooms until their feet are clean and dry. It’s never been a problem.
I have carpets and they don’t ‘stink’ Pauline so I think you are over-exaggerating here somewhat. My dog Annie’s bed cover is washed regularly and I vacuum the carpets daily. She doesn’t wee in the house even though she was re-homed from kennels. My carpets are now well over 20 years old but when we bought them we bought very good quality ones plus good quality underlay. If you lived closer I would invite you round to sniff my carpets so that you could see (or should that be smell??) for yourself … 
Hi Mups I meant the carpet. How do you manage having carpets throughout? I’m not thinking about shedding but just keeping it clean. Do you wipe their paws before they go onto it? I see pictures of people who live in pristine houses with immaculate carpets posing with their dogs and I think - how do they manage that? Just the amount of dirt a dog brings in from outside not just on paws but also on their coat and from having a tinkle etc. Also we have cats too, they love to get their claws into a carpet. I know you don’t have that problem but I do wonder how people manage particularly older people with lugging a hoover over carpet being so much harder than swishing it on laminate/tiled/wood flooring.
You vacuum daily? This you see would be my nightmare scenario. I hate vacuuming more than ironing or any other housework.
by the way nice your dog and I share the same name 
I quite like a doggy smell in the house. I think Teddy smells of cheesecake. Although he has recently started farting occasionally which is not so nice…
I never said anything about your carpets,Margaret, I have been a cleaner and have worked in many homes that have dogs, they stank and their hygiene in looking after their dog, was pretty rank, so no, it wasn’t an exaggeration,Margaret.
Like I said my friend had a small dog, I also cleaned for her, the place stank of dog…
I also moved into a bungalow ,previous owner had four large dogs, we had to rip the carpets up, there was hair everywhere even in the oven, the place stank of dogs and after cleaning ,it still stank, it sank into the walls and flooring imo,took months for that smell to go.
My plan is to have a plastic runner over the hall carpet with a towel on it, so that my dog can wipe her face and paws before going to another room. I have to help her with her paws, but she rubs her face on the towel anyway to dry it off.
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You obviously didn’t mention me by name but you made a vast generalisation about not having carpets because they would stink in no time - I simply pointed out that mine don’t ‘stink’ even though I have had dogs of one kind or another for many years…
And I still say, that anyone who has carpets and the dog/ dogs get to sleep on it, it will stink after a while, plus hair gets inbedded in carpets…and dog hair smells ,my hoover stinks because it’s full of jacks hair, can’t get rid of that smell even after cleaning.
That’s my opinion as yours is yours…carpets smell after a while, even without a dog,…I’ve hoovered many a carpet in my lifetime…laminate is much more hygienic and it doesn’t smell…carpets even catch food odours from cooking.
I don’t mind vacuuming, I find it quite therapeutic but hate ironing - in fact there is a basketful awaiting my attention at the moment … but maybe not today 
I like the name Annie - it was my grandma’s name too! Our Annie is an ex-racing greyhound and has a longer name but is Annie to us.
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I enjoy ironing…I also enjoy vacuuming. 
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