Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kids room flooring....

[Carol Singleton (Quetzal4]

We have laminate-type flooring (I don't actually know what it is) over 
entire room.  We had a full length area rug custom made for a little less 
than half of the room.  It works well.  The rug area is used for reading, 
non-messy floor play, etc.  The laminate floor part is used for activities 
that are messy (painting, etc.) and other non-cozy fun stuff.  It works well 
this way.

Carol Singleton
Oak Creek Commons
Paso Robles, CA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Scheer" <wonko [at] monkeyhouse.org>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Kids room flooring....


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> We're in the process of selecting flooring for our Kids room.  We're
> budget conscious but want something that will work well.  Currently it
> looks like we're leaning towards laminate flooring with an area rug or
> similar to cut noise.
>
> However, I noticed when going back over photos of the bay area cohousing
> tour we took last October that most of the places we saw had carpet, so
> I've been making the argument that carpet will likely be easiest on our
> budget and will work better at noise reduction, which I am theorizing
> should be the largest factor flooring choice for the kids room.  The
> problem is I'm just guessing.
>
> What does your cohousing group have?  Would you use something else?
> What do you like or not like about it?  If money were no object, what
> flooring would you use and why?  When it was worked into your reserve
> study, what life expectancy did you use for your particular flooring
> estimating kids room wear and tear?
>
> I guess the same question could be asked of the Kitchen.  It looks like
> we're headed towards sheet vinyl.  We almost went for commercial grade
> vinyl tile, but our builder had bad things to say about it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - - Lyle
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