Flooring in the Nursery

pregnantchica

We just moved into our first house a few months ago, so I have no clue about flooring.  In the nursery, there's carpeting right now (once we moved in, we were broke...lol!).  We are going to remove it bc it's ugly and just doesn't match.  What should we put down that's not going to cost up a storm? 

megsok11

Is there hard wood under the carpet that you can finish?  then you can just use an area rug.

Mrs.DeliaMarieP

If there's hardwood under the carpeting, I would find someone good and reasonably priced to refinish it, then put a large area rug on it.

If there's not, then I would recarpet it again, as that will be your least expensive option.

We put down large carpet tiles on our own in our nursery.

Manderlin923

I think carpets kind of nasty...we put in a laminate wood floor (looks like the real thing but way way cheaper) and an area rug.

 

GeneGoddess

We moved into a 50y house and ripped up the 50y carpet.  We installed hardwoods ourselves.  The price was the same (raw materials with our labor) as someone else installing carpet.  So we have hardwoods and a rug.

pregnantchica

Yes, there's hardwood underneath the carpet.  I worry about what would happen when the baby starts crawling....I heard the area rug wasn't the best idea either.

DiscusCoach

We just took up the carpet and refinished the oak hardwood floors this week. It is so beautiful I don't feel like putting anything on it.

If you have regular sub floor there are some beautiful "fake" wood floors out there. We just bought one room worth on clearance for DH's office. It is gorgeous. Go to a couple of flooring stores. Sometime they have good clearance prices on one room's worth because most people are looking for a whole house or large living room.

I don't like carpet in general. I feel like it never gets really clean. Even if you get the carpet the pad under holds stuff. Yuck. 

jldittber

Ditto w/the laminate floors... I luv mine, the upkeep is so easy and they were very cost effective.