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Oh Diana.......that hurts me just reading it and I have a strong
stomach. Hope it is feeling better by now Mary |
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Laurie G. wrote:
I scrolled all the way down - no squeamish here! All I can say is OUCH!!!!!!! I am enjoying all the posts about "carpet/no carpet". DH & I will be building a new house in two years and have decided to go "no carpet". You have just convinced me that we made the right decision! I hope your knee heals well. I want to get rid of the carpet we have, worn out wool, when we extend and renovate. I've found some info on a flooring that I like the sound of 'Novilon' from Forbo. I still like carpet for bedrooms and lounge rooms, but I don't want carpet in my dining room! -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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My sewing room had a hardwood floor when we moved in and I love it. The
floor under the built-in desk where I have my sewing machine was quite scratched up when we moved in, and the floor really could use refinishing, so I don't worry about scratching it. I do use my rolling chair in the dining room when I am machine quilting a large quilt and haven't noticed any scratches as a result. I don't think the rolling chair is any harder on the floor than the regular dining room chairs. We put hardwood in the living/dining room and hall 4 years ago, and this summer we put it in the bedroom. It is easy to take care of and not too cold underfoot (though we have a heated basement underneath us, and I'm sure that helps). If you like hardwood, you might also consider laminate flooring. It's somewhat less expensive and could even be a do-it-yourself project. Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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Thank you, everyone. It feels just fine, and Im still keeping an eye on
it just in case. The carpet is still here tho. Diana Mary in Washington wrote: Oh Diana.......that hurts me just reading it and I have a strong stomach. Hope it is feeling better by now Mary |
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ha, that is odd. I never find wooden floors cold, quite the opposite
actually.. Marcella Peek wrote: 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 ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ -- Dr. Quilter http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out for a walk) |
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Aproximately... I mean, if you needed the backing for a quilt to be 6x8
feet for example you could use the floor as a guide.. Taria wrote: the grout lines would mess up the measurements. Vinyl tiles worked in the other house. I was younger with a better back then though. Can get down to work with the mess but have a tough time getting back up! TAria -- Dr. Quilter http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out for a walk) |
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I think you are describing the blue carpet in our rental's living room?
We rent those shampooing things from the supermarket, it looks good for a day or two, and then it gets all flat and matted again. I've asked them to replace it but they wouldn't. So glad the new house has hardwood or tile everywhere! Diana Curtis wrote: The key to your love affair with your carpet is due largely to its being a natural fiber. When my parents moved us to Wisconsin we got the wool oriental rugs that were in the house. They lasted thru dogs and kids and even moved with us to the next house. I have one of the area rugs, it is a minimum of 40 years old and still looks wonderful. On the other hand in this trailer we live in they put acrylic plush carpet in most of the rooms. The living room looks like it was beaten with buzzard guts and drug thru hell backwards (catchy phrase, that). DH tried to steam clean it for 4 hours, using every chemical in his arsenal to remove the stains from koolaid and chocolate milk. (Meg learned to drink from a cup shortly after we moved here) and the carpet looked cleaner the next day. The day after that it lost its resolve and went limp and filthy again. One day DH will come home from work and find bare pressboard flooring here. And now, a tale which I warn you, may not be for the squeamish. In fact I will put a squeamishness avoiding space he Ok. If you scrolled down this far you dont squeam easily, or you failed to take my warning seriously. Yesterday I sat on the floor sorting toys and crayons so I could vacumm safely. When I knelt to get up I felt an odd cramping pain in my leg. When I twisted round to see what was causing such gut twisting sensations I saw what I thought was a piece of wire protruding from my calf. When I grabbed it I realized that a needle with thread in it had been driven quite deeply into the muscle and possibly hit the bone. Its out now, it still aches. My tetnus shot is up to date so now I will just keep my eye on it and hope it heals quickly. I wont miss the carpet. Id rather have wood underfoot. Barefeet and all. I hope I didnt squick anyone out to badly. Diana Polly Esther wrote: My first employer had a rather picturesque expression that I'm not sure is okay to use in polite company, but it was "beat with buzzard guts and drug through Hell backwards". That pretty well describes what out carpet has been through including hairballs, chainsaws and creative toddlers. Our carpet is wool. It does not electrocute me in the winter, it is kind to every step, old cold feet, and it always looks nice. So, yes, Cheryl. When the carpet lovers of the world unite, come hold my hand. Polly "Cheryl" wrote in message ... Carpet lovers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your cold feet. -- Dr. Quilter http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out for a walk) |
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Did you do the work yourself? We did something similar,but alas, had
to pay someone to do it. Ripped out the stucco walls, the black paneling and the gold, brown and orange shag carpeting and put up plain walls and pergo flooring, along with recessed ceiling lights. I don't have the whole room, but just a corner. There is an ugly red brick fireplace that I am thinking of painting. Anyone have experience with this? Linda PATCHogue,NY On 10 Aug 2005 18:50:55 -0700, "Liz A." wrote: 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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