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Old August 11th 05, 01:14 AM
Fiddy
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I have laminate flooring in my craft/sewing room, and LOVE it.
Spills?...I spritz with cleaner and clean with a paper towel. I've
dropped all KINDS of stuff on it and have yet to dent/scratch it at all.

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Old August 11th 05, 01:27 AM
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I always thought my first choice would be vinyl, but when I built my home
and made almost half the floor area one big room I got commercial low pile
wool blend carpet. I can hear the howls of idsbelief from here! But the
static built-up is nil, it wears extremely well, vacuums like a dream,
cleams easily with a machine I hire from the supermarket, feels good
unerfoot and looks great after years of very hard treatment by an enormous
number of visiting sewers.

If you want carpet don't be put off, but also stay away from anything with
too much synthetic content! You will have to pull every single thread off
it by hand - they cling!

A recent catalogue that got dropped in the mailbox offered a vac attachment
that fits any machine and has a head like one of those lint remover brushes.
I doubted, but it was so cheap I decided to try it out. I paid hundreds of
dollars for my vac, but this brush - worth only a few buck - is fabulous!

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"Mary in Washington" wrote in message
ups.com...
Once again, I am calling your expertise and experience concerning the
floor for my sewing room. Without dishing the dirt on the previous
owner, I do wish that his bellybutton pops out, his legs fall off and
the house inspect have to carry him around. What we thought was going
to be a simple update turned into a 3-year construction party.

We have worked hard for 3 years to get this house up to standards. New
carpet, paint, hardwood, tile, moldings, fixtures, so on and so forth
has brought us to the outside paint which will happen next summer and
the floor in my sewing room. This is the space that I have always
coveted and have been thrilled with the set up. The carpet now is gold
shag right out of the 70's and other then a good cleaning before I
move in it has had nothing done to it. I am ashamed to say that I am
even afraid to vacuum in there because when I am in a project it gets
totally trashed. But I pick up and put everything back in order after
each project...but I am sure I miss some pins.

That being said, I am also a bare foot quilter. Can't stand
shoes!!!! In winter I will compromise with socks but that is it and
nice carpet would be nice.

Do I put hard wood, tile, carpet, and if so what kind. Please tell me
what you have and why you love, like or hate it.

My gratitude in advance.

Mary

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Old August 11th 05, 01:57 AM
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"Mary in Washington" wrote in message
ups.com...
Once again, I am calling your expertise and experience concerning the
floor for my sewing room. Without dishing the dirt on the previous
owner, I do wish that his bellybutton pops out, his legs fall off and
the house inspect have to carry him around. What we thought was going
to be a simple update turned into a 3-year construction party.


When I did my sewing room, in a moment of total madness (I excuse this based
on the fact that I literally lived with the contractor in the house for
months on end) I had a sort of berber put down in a color that turned out to
be very very light. Needless to say it took about 12 seconds for something
to get spilled on it that would not come out. GIANT SIGH. Also dragging the
vaccuum around the room is annoying.

If I could afford to do it over (I pray, I tell you pray for the hot water
heater to die and flood the basement) I would go with something like vinyl I
think. Cheap vinyl with a pattern that doesn't have to be matched. Tile
would be nice but I can't afford it. I want something sturdy, that isn;t
going to stain, that I can actually pick the pins up off of, that the chair
wheels will roll over and, if I want to start dyeing fabric or flinging
paint around I will be able to do without fear. Did I mention cheap? I want
to be able to sweep all the detrius into the middle of the room and then
just sweep it into a dustpan and dump it. Now I am constantly unwinding
thread from the vaccuum rollers and fishing out pieces of fabric from the
tubes.

I figure I can always put a small mat or something down in front of the
sewing table if I have to stand for long periods of time. My sewing room is
nice and cool in the summer and cool to cold in the winter so I have to wear
socks anyway in the winter.

Ellen


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Old August 11th 05, 01:59 AM
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Hi Mary,
I was fortunate to have "real" wood floors already in this house when I
bought it. My building inspector said they were oak, and in wonderful
shape. I too, run barefoot all the time, but I love, love, love having
the wood floor in the sewing room. I just have a rug under the machine
in the winter, and it's fine. Very easy care..... however, I don't use a
rolling chair. I just have a regular chair with pads on the bottom so I
don't scratch the floor..... good luck!

Patti in Seattle

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Old August 11th 05, 02:50 AM
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Hi Mary,

I'm another barefoot quilter in Washington ! A couple years ago we
remodeled the downstairs family room and turned it into my sewing room.
Our house is split level and the windows are ground level. Because half
the walls are below ground, it is always cold down there. It was dark
with dark paneling on the lower half and dark, ugly carpet with a big
wood stove taking up way too much real estate. We pulled out the wood
stove, painted all the paneling and put down Pergo. I love the ease of
cleaning it. Just mop the dog hair and threads up. When I drop my dish
of pins like I tend to do on at least a weekly basis, they're a cinch
to pick up with the magnet. No more pins getting caught in the carpet.
I did put a runner on both sides of the cutting table so I don't slide
around when I've just got socks on. We also installed more than double
the lighting and big huge shelving units from Ikea that will have to be
disassembled if we ever move. Here are some very outdated pictures of
the before and mostly after. One of these days I should get motivated
and clean it up and take newer pictures......
http://home.comcast.net/~dittodog/

LizA.
Kent, WA

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Old August 11th 05, 04:09 AM
Cathy
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I like a wood floor, and you can get underfloor heating - it is a thin
electrical pad that they put down under the flooring -

Cathy in Vancouver


Mary in Washington wrote:
. . . . .
That being said, I am also a bare foot quilter. Can't stand
shoes!!!! In winter I will compromise with socks but that is it and
nice carpet would be nice.

Do I put hard wood, tile, carpet, and if so what kind. Please tell me
what you have and why you love, like or hate it.


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Old August 11th 05, 04:28 AM
Marcella Peek
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In article ,
"Polly Esther" wrote:

Oh boy, what a challenge. A barefooted quilter in Washington state? Golly.
I wonder if anyone here has tried the new version of cork. It's
supposedly finished so you can mop it but is also supposed to warm and
quiet. Lately, the decorators on tv have been going crazy about it but I'd
like to hear from some real people. Anybody here claim to be a "real
people". Naaah. Probably not. Polly


I'm mostly real :-) My friend installs kitchens. He hates cork because
it gouges easily when one drops knives and the like. I suspect that
wouldn't be an issue with a sewing room unless one likes to fling
Ginghers or open rotary cutters.

marcella
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Old August 11th 05, 04:33 AM
Marcella Peek
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I'm with Cheryl.

My sewing room is the basement. It is nicely finished and came with a
nice oak parquet floor. Blech. Why? I live south of San Francisco.
Not south enough to be warm like say, San Jose, but south enough to
catch the edges of the fog often enough. That wood floor was darn cold
for me the hater of shoes.

I got a nice low pile carpet. It's dense enough that pins lie on top of
the carpet if I drop them and don't fall into the depths to be found
only by bare feet and cause unladylike swearing.

It's dense enough that I have a rolling office chair that rolls just
fine on the carpet, to give you a rough idea.

It vaccums up in a jif so I can lay my newly sewn blocks out or my
quilts out for basting.

marcella

In article ,
"Cheryl" wrote:

I always thought my first choice would be vinyl, but when I built my home
and made almost half the floor area one big room I got commercial low pile
wool blend carpet. I can hear the howls of idsbelief from here! But the
static built-up is nil, it wears extremely well, vacuums like a dream,
cleams easily with a machine I hire from the supermarket, feels good
unerfoot and looks great after years of very hard treatment by an enormous
number of visiting sewers.

If you want carpet don't be put off, but also stay away from anything with
too much synthetic content! You will have to pull every single thread off
it by hand - they cling!

A recent catalogue that got dropped in the mailbox offered a vac attachment
that fits any machine and has a head like one of those lint remover brushes.
I doubted, but it was so cheap I decided to try it out. I paid hundreds of
dollars for my vac, but this brush - worth only a few buck - is fabulous!

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Cheryl ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^

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Old August 11th 05, 04:48 AM
Cheryl
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Don't you just love Ikea.

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"Liz A." wrote in message
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Hi Mary,

I'm another barefoot quilter in Washington ! A couple years ago we
remodeled the downstairs family room and turned it into my sewing room.
Our house is split level and the windows are ground level. Because half
the walls are below ground, it is always cold down there. It was dark
with dark paneling on the lower half and dark, ugly carpet with a big
wood stove taking up way too much real estate. We pulled out the wood
stove, painted all the paneling and put down Pergo. I love the ease of
cleaning it. Just mop the dog hair and threads up. When I drop my dish
of pins like I tend to do on at least a weekly basis, they're a cinch
to pick up with the magnet. No more pins getting caught in the carpet.
I did put a runner on both sides of the cutting table so I don't slide
around when I've just got socks on. We also installed more than double
the lighting and big huge shelving units from Ikea that will have to be
disassembled if we ever move. Here are some very outdated pictures of
the before and mostly after. One of these days I should get motivated
and clean it up and take newer pictures......
http://home.comcast.net/~dittodog/

LizA.
Kent, WA



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Old August 11th 05, 05:09 AM
Elizabeth Young
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Mary in Washington wrote:
Once again, I am calling your expertise and experience concerning the
floor for my sewing room.


Do I put hard wood, tile, carpet, and if so what kind. Please tell
me what you have and why you love, like or hate it.


I have carpet in my sewing room/office (because I lost the this
particular skirmish in planning our new house). I like the carpet
because it is cozy on my feet (not such an issue right now - can we
PLEASE have cooler weather?).
However, I would take any kind of hard flooring: vinyl, ceramic, fake
wood, real wood, steamrolled pop cans (ok, just kidding) over carpet in
a heartbeat.

Carpet = bad
Hard surface = good

(should have fought harder)

liz young in hot (!) california
 




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