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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. -- The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!) |
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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! -- Cheryl ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced...... "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 http://community.webshots.com/user/moondancewa IN THE COOKIES OF LIFE, FRIENDS ARE THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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! -- Cheryl ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ |
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Don't you just love Ikea.
-- Cheryl ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced...... "Liz A." wrote in message ps.com... 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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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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