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Dog-friendly lounge room flooring

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

I have beautiful parquetry floors in the hall, kitchen and family room, and the most impractical cream carpet in the L-shaped lounge/dining. The dog has recently decided that if he feels unwell, he should head straight for the carpet. The clean required, along with the joys of summer moulting, are doing my head in.

The lounge/dining area is immediately adjacent to the parquetry at two points, but i don’t think it’s practical to try and duplicate that flooring. I’m after something that will survive the pooch (he likes to run zoomies across the carpet area as well) and not clash with the parquetry. My style is fairly contemporary.

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bigreader

3 years ago

What is under the carpet? Any hidden wood treasure. If not, I’d use a floating timber floor in a colour that picks up the mid tone of the parquetry and tones with the doggo.

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geekgirlau
Original Author
3 years ago
I’ll have to test a corner or the floor - hoping to find a chest of gold
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bigreader
3 years ago
Heating vents and wardrobes are my go-tos for seeing what’s under carpet. On second look, the edging on the parquetry makes me think it might be more modern than you think.
geekgirlau
Original Author
3 years ago
The unit was built in the early 1990s. But the flooring is traditional parquetry, little individual timber tiles. I think replicating that would be costly and not necessarily hard wearing.

i think I’ll have to go into a store and look at some options. The tricky part will be trying to imagine what the two different styles of flooring will look like next to each other.
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Kate
3 years ago
Bamboo carpet. Really soft and washes with water
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Try a hardwearing carpet in a different colour and style. Polypropylene is recycled plastic and the cheapest and most hardwearing carpet out there. I lived in a unit where my cats went to town on the carpet, they could do no damage to that carpet at all. Textured loop piles are also easier to keep clean than cut piles.

I think a laminate flooring next to a real wood floor is going to look terrible. Laminates do not look anything like wood, and especially not when butting up against it.
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Carmen
3 years ago
If you end up going with a hard floor whether it by tile, lino or floating floors and want to add some warmth I would suggest a hypo allergenic rug. These rugs are usually polypropylene, easy to clean and good for allergies. These guys have a great range of polypropylene rugs <-

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