POLL: Carpet - love or loathe?

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User
8 years ago
I'm with Chris, carpet in bathrooms is too much, but in the bedrooms just right!
teenytinyhouse
8 years ago
Rugs and loose carpets that can be taken out for cleaning are nice, and provide the warmth you need in the UK winters. Fitted carpets collect so much dust and are so hard to clean. Don't get me started on fitted carpet in a bathroom! Give me wood, tiles or laminate. Something I can just swiff or mop clean. Easy!
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philip mills
8 years ago
The house we bought about 10yrs ago was fully carpeted, know we have solid oak flooring upstairs and downstairs fully tiled, easy to keep clean. Will never go back to carpets
bruket
8 years ago
Anything but fitted carpets.
Jen Tindall
8 years ago
I much prefer the appearance of solid wood flooring, but carpet is cosy and comfortable, and also cheap to buy and fit in comparison with wood, so I'm torn!
angelboyman
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Carpet in upstairs in the bedrooms/landing. Carpet runner with brass rods up the stairs. Wood in the hall, utility, dining & kitchen. Carpet in the living room/snug. Stone in the bathroom. Victorian tiles in the porch. We have a lovely old parquet throughout the downstairs and it's hardwearing, but it's cold & hard in the living room.
Anne Lorraine South
8 years ago
Really disliked carpet until I moved into a retirement bungalow.. Now I'm won over and I'm even having carpet in my new conservatory!
marivon1
8 years ago
Hard floors throughout the downstairs of my property, all the same which are large granite tiles with upstands for skirting boards too so no painting of them (hurrah)! Would only have carpet upstairs and on the stairs and has to be the same carpet in all the rooms and the landing. Bathrooms are excluded of course and are tiled! All for continuity of course.
chalkandbell
8 years ago
Carpet is nice and toasty but urgh....! it's also the most disgusting thing you can have in your house. If you've ever had your carpets professionally cleaned and seen what is extracted you'll know what I mean and would be put off having them forever!
Olena Tkach
8 years ago
The only places where I love carpets are near the bed and in the bathroom. Just a small extra-fluffy and very soft carpets to place your bare feet on when you wake up or out of bath. In the rest of my house I prefere hardwood floors with no carpets at all.
Yankee Doodle
8 years ago
Have stone floor throughout entire downstairs. Since we had our first child 3 yrs ago we bought a large rug for living room as needed somewhere to get down and be comfy to play on....just this last Saturday we hired a carpet cleaner to clean it and the water that we emptied out the cleaner was filthy!!! ...and this is not high traffic area and only 3 of us in house!....Made me feel so glad I don't have carpet anywhere else to trap and harbour dirt and dust mites!
Maddy
8 years ago
The UK is the only country I know where that loves carpets and wearing shoes inside ...a pretty disgusting combo I must say. Carpet is dirty, unhygienic, cheap and nasty..
teddismum
8 years ago
I think carpet tiles or rugs for bedroom, stair carpet of some sort on the stairs. Wooden, Laminate, Amitico or tiled floors rest of the house. Easy clean rugs if you really must...
Juliet Docherty
8 years ago
Only ever sisal - lovely.
Tom Flanagan
Original Author
8 years ago
I'm all for wooden floor boards and a nice rug to give the room so warmth and texture - carpets just don't do it for me!
southernpointofview
8 years ago
Well, I only have hardwood and split brick pavers throughout my home, but lots of oriental rugs and seagrass rugs.
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Colchester Flooring Ltd
8 years ago
Carpets turn a house into a home.
Lauren
8 years ago
Ugh I hate carpets, I have allergies and no matter how often they're hoovered I end up bunged up and sneezing! Wooden floors with flat weave rugs you can chuck in the washing machine work well for me.
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Carpet and Flooring Concepts
8 years ago
Love carpets they insulate a room and reduce noise. I sell all types of flooring and most of my home is carpet. That said as a mother of two children under eight and we have two Tibetan terrier carpet it is what suits our family.
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Hoopers Carpets
8 years ago
Carpets make a huge difference to the acoustic properties of a room and the feeling of warmth.
info77391
8 years ago
I think you need to get out more
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User
7 years ago
Carpets are always a good choice for home flooring, versatile and adaptable and with more choice of colours and materials than ever!
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Lakin Carpet & Flooring Co. Ltd
7 years ago
Love!
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Fenland Carpets and Flooring Ltd.
7 years ago
love it !
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The Carpet Shop
7 years ago
We fid our customers love carpet
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Flawless Finish
7 years ago
We find our customers love carpet
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The Carpet Man (Wallingford)
7 years ago
I love carpet. Wish i could have it at home, but unable to. Always a bit jealous when i see a customers newly fitted carpet.
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Carpet and Flooring Concepts
7 years ago
Carpet love it ,warm , keeps down the noise level and so much choice of colours types and patterns
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Forbes Claymore
7 years ago
Soft carpet every time.
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AUKA interiors
7 years ago
they are very cosy
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justin2carpetsrugs
7 years ago
We find our clients love carpets in their modern home.
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Carpet Interiors
7 years ago
We find that our clients love the comfort of carpet!
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Tom Dempsey Flooring
7 years ago
Where comfort is important our clients much prefer carpets
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Fenland Carpets and Flooring Ltd.
7 years ago
Even though Karndean is very popular you can't beat the super soft carpets now on show!
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Henne
7 years ago
Carpet
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Ledbury Carpets and Interiors
7 years ago
We find the right carpet for the right use makes sure it's always love!
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Isidora Markovic
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Solid wood flooring throughout the ground floor, with the exception of in the kitchen and bathroom, where tiles are preferable. Carpet in the bedrooms is more snug. Although carpets are a lot harder to clean than wood/laminate/tiles, they do wonders for the acoustics of a room etc. It also depends on whether we're talking about carpet in a house or flat - I would take less issue with having a carpeted living room in a flat than in a house. All in all, I don't mind, as long as it's not in the bathroom or kitchen!
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Perkins Stockwell & Co Ltd
7 years ago
Our clients love carpet.
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Love Shutters UK
7 years ago
Wood flooring downstairs but Carpet upstairs.
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Hambleton Decorating Ltd
7 years ago
There are some absolutely beautiful carpet designs which I love to use. Avena Carpets, Simon Playle, Parsua, Braquenie at Pierre Frey, Stark Carpets and Tim Page all have interesting designs worth pursuing. I also love using antique carpets.
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Design Storey
7 years ago
Definitely hard surfaces all the way - you can refinish them when they get tired and are really practical for children/pets/outdoors lifestyle. We used a mixture of new polished concrete, exposed flagstones and original elm boards at our miner's cottages and don't find it cold or austere.
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Lift & Load London
7 years ago
We much prefer old exposed wooden flooring
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beautifulflooring
7 years ago
Stunning styles, warmth and comfort what's not to like.
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Morgan & Quinn Ltd
7 years ago
As long as you choose from the correct manufacturer, we would have to say LOVE!
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Dentons Carpets Limited
7 years ago
We find our clients love carpet!
lisa77226
7 years ago
Floorboards downstairs with rugs, carpet upstairs. Water proof materials in bathrooms, so no carpets!
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Carpet Interiors
7 years ago

Recent job of ours - cosy carpets! Perfect case for the LOVE!
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Cerberus Doors
6 years ago
I don't like hoovering so it's a loathe from me!
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Cambium Floors
6 years ago
Our choice would be wood flooring.
sarah67534
6 years ago
We recently put in carpet tiles in our livingroom, so we have to say LOVE. http://www.bricoflor.co.uk/flooring/carpet-tiles/schatex.html

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POLL: Carpet - love or loathe?

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