we don't allow the dogs onto the furniture and only in the living room/dining area/kitchen--not in bedrooms. I also don't allow them in either the sewing room or long arm basement area. But of course, when you have house animals, you also have pet hair no matter how much you clean, etc. For charity, I wash and dry in machines and then bag immediately. For customers, I make sure that I never take a customer top out of bag except in the long arm space and then rebag before I bring it up.