| If you are thinking of changing your flooring and you | | | | the kitchen but they don't look out of place even |
| can't decide whether to go for carpet or wood | | | | though there might be more of an upkeep than usual. |
| flooring, maybe this article will help. | | | | I also find having a carpet makes it easier to |
| I've been to houses where there carpets have been | | | | decorate as you seem to have more options when it |
| dirty but you know that with a bit of tender love | | | | comes to style and color. Having a plain carpet makes |
| and care you can get a carpet looking brand new. In | | | | it easier to use any wall paper, but equally it can also |
| contrast I've been to houses where they have | | | | look great if you use a patterned carpet as you can |
| wooden floors which they haven't looked after and | | | | sometimes be limited as to what wall papers you can |
| you can tell immediately that it is too late to get it | | | | use to compliment the carpet. |
| back to good order without major work. | | | | Dose any one remember when the carpet men have |
| I find that in winter, which for me is in the UK, we | | | | been round and laid the carpet you always got to |
| have plenty of cold weather which makes carpet the | | | | keep the off cuts? |
| best option to have in a house over a wooden floor. | | | | That when I was much younger and people often |
| There is nothing worse on a cold winter's morning to | | | | made tool bags out of the of cuts that lasted a life |
| wake up to a cold wooden floor which feels like | | | | time, you never see them any more. People also |
| you're walking on ice for the first few minutes! | | | | used the off cuts to put them in the shed and in the |
| I also find with wooden floors you are limited in | | | | loft so the children could use them areas to play, you |
| choices in style and color in comparison with carpet | | | | can't do any of these things using wooden flooring, |
| where there are hundreds of styles and colors to | | | | so once again I must have to admit that if any one |
| choose from. One place I can honestly say you | | | | was to ask me which would I have a wood floor or |
| shouldn't have a carpet in is the bathroom as a few | | | | carpet it would be carpet all the way. But more |
| people (MEN) have accidents and the carpet can | | | | importantly the thing to do is to look after it and |
| begin to smell which isn't the best of smells. The | | | | with so many carpet cleaning products, carpet |
| same rule applies to kitchens, but in fairness I have | | | | cleaning equipment and carpet cleaning tips you can |
| been to houses where there have been carpets in | | | | now get on the internet, it has to be CARPET! |