Flooring that is awsome for dog homes

[meepitsmeagan]

I've quit worrying about that though. If I need to be that liquid in my home ownership that resale value is of major concern, i'm not making any improvements anyway like that because i'll never get my money out of it. If I plan to stay for the long haul, i'm going to enjoy it and not worry about what the next person wants.

We are kind of in our "middle ground" home. Staying here for probably 5-7 years, then finding a permanent residence. With 4 dogs in our tiny place our carpet is already going to crap quickly. Part of me says, screw retail value and just do what we want. Other part is thinking a bit more logically and saying, maybe go with something a bit more likeable to general public and we can go with something else in forever home.

 

[Elrohwen]

The dogs absolutely prefer carpet. Watson is a lot more active and playful in the evening when there is carpet vs hardwood. But I just hate it. Our bedroom carpet looks disgusting after having a dog for 2.5 years, though he's never had an accident on it. It just has mud stains and random things and I feel like it's always gross and covered in hair and dirt. It's also so hard to clean if the dog does have an accident. But boy do they love it. I would love to have a finished basement with carpet just for dog training and general running around, and it could get gross and I wouldn't care as much.

We have hand scraped light wood floors in one room and it's held up well to the dog. Some scratches if you get down on the floor and look close, but you can't see them at all from a normal perspective. The light color means that it looks cleaner longer. It wouldn't have been my first choice (it came with the house) but I really like it now.

 

[release the hounds]

carpet does wear with heavy use, lots of people and pets in a small area and you may be looking at replacing again before resale. Just something to keep in mind. I wouldn't do an entire place with one type of flooring, that's sure to turn people off, but I think using a combo of wood/laminate or carpet and slate/tile is just fine. You can never please everyone, but most can deal with not liking a part rather than looking at an entire flooring overhaul

But if I wasn't staying 10 years or more, I probably wouldn't be making big investments anyway. but that's me. I did that once and it was a learning experience.

 

[FG167]

We have laminate upstairs (that looks like wood), carpet on the stairs, and slate tile downstairs (which is where the dog room is). We put down stall matting in the dog room to prevent the crates from scratching the slate. We HATE the carpet on the stairs, it's so dirty and gross and I want to replace it. My dogs have all been raised on hardwood floors so they don't know the difference. I also don't allow energetic roughhousing in the house anyway so they only really slide around when they're trying to beat me downstairs for their dinner. Now with kid on the way, I'm a little more concerned about the slickness of the floors but not too much. We plan on moving in the next 3-5 years as well.

 

[crazedACD]

Ah, and we had laminate in my Mom's house...it was OK but any sort of large spill, or any liquid that stayed on the floor for an extended period of time would make the laminate "swell" in between the pieces and then separate. The liquid also went down to our subfloor.

 

[Kat09Tails]

We are the last owners of the house with the slate floor so honestly we didn't even think about resale as the demo date for that house is already set 14 years away as this is leased land.

Until that date however we don't really have to worry about much. Any worn/soiled rugs will simply be replaced.