jeaninmaine

Yech, I think I'd rather step on a hairball. That must have been a terrible feeling, sometimes it's so hard to stop your foot from going down all the way.

gotta-sew

It was a memorable moment. I thought for sure I had killed it, well once I cought my breath and stopped running and yelling ICK ICK ICK. I slowly walked back to the dinning room and peaked under the table, and there was BJ the frog just hopping across the room. Better care was then taken to secure the lid to his cage. But truly, it did feel sick and wrong!

jeaninmaine

I can just imagine. Just thinking of it gets to me. I spend most of my walking time looking down so I don't tramp on one of the cats who have a tendency to just trustingly flop down anywhere they happen to be and go to sleep. I have nightlights throughout the apartment so I don't accidentally step on one of them and hurt it.

slk350

We have carpet in all of the bedrooms and I hate it. Our house is only 7 years old, but time to start replacing the carpet. We want to put down wood laminate. I have had pins go into my feet many times, I like going barefoot most of the time. One time a huge piece of wood sliver went deep into my foot. I think it worked it's way out of the carpet from being left there when the house was built. That really hurt.

Miss Priss

I took the carpet out of the room and layed tile. So much easier and no pins to step on.

quiltmom04

I must be the only person on earth who doesn't want to live with hardwood flooring. I just carpeted my sewing room and have no problem with it. It vaccuums up easily and I don't have any problem with pins. I use a magnetic pin dish, so dropped pins are kept to a minimum. I don't think it should be a problem, but you might have to clean up more than with a bare floor.

kit'smamma

I had carpet in my last sewing room and it was a pain. I suppose that the shorter the nap, the better. I resorted to a bunch of those office chair mats but that was less than wonderful. The current room has a vinyl floor and is so easy to maintain. I use a pricey gel mat when doing a lot of cutting or ironing. For those of us with damaged or arthritic feet a gell mat is like heaven. Perhaps the current carpet could be sold to someone with a smaller room they want to carpet.

amandasgramma

I think anything you buy to put on TOP of the carpet will cost more than wood laminate being put in. DH and I just put laminate on my shop floor -- an 8x16 room, for $150.00. If you can't do it yourself, it would cost a lot more. I bought a large plastic "thing" that goes under office chairs for my sewing room and just that one about 3x5 was $40.00. And those things are NOT good for a sewing room -- trust me. If anything does fall on it, it rolls off onto the carpet! If I had the energy I'd take everything out of the sewing room and put in laminate.

nativetexan

well i have some large foam mats that link together near my cutting table. can't remember exactly where i got them but probably Home Depot or Lowe's. perhaps something like that would suffice.

Charleen DiSante

This is a good idea. I do have an office type chair mat under my sewing chair and one under the cutting table, never even thought of the plastic runners. Thanks for the idea.