Well, there are several possibilities. One I quite like, though more for stair treads, is the industrial hard rubber (grey) flooring which consists of lots of 30 mm dia circles, slightly embossed on the surface as a non-slip finish.
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A picture of carpet instead ?
There are veneered alternatives, which at least have a few wear layers (depending on cost). Once your picture floor is scratched, it's terminal. And of course you get to be irritated beyond belief living underneath it, listening to clack clack clack.
Still, one man's meat and all that.
You don't prefer carpet, do you?!!
Actually, not far from the truth. Carpets contain up to 10 per cent of their original weight in dead skin cells and other human detritus after ten years. I wouldn't like to feel I was continually stomping over gran's DNA years after she's gone to ground.
MM
There's nothing less congruous in a period property than a picture of wood on the floor. Carpet is also warmer. Even on genuine wood floors, a nice big rug is worth having.
She's beyond caring, why shouldn't you be ? Do you extend the same argument to your upholstered furniture and bedding, both of which are full of both bits of you and tiny things living on those bits of you ?
[A friend had a Kirby salesman in for a laugh. They got the "let's vacuum your pillow/bed" demonstration. The salesman said "see all that, that's skin" with a suitably disgusted face. Friend's girlfriend replied "well, at least it's OUR skin"...]
Pine costs less and you wont have to mess about redoing them in 15. Businesses want to sell you goods that will clap out, so you rebuy later, effectively paying for them several times over.
Regards, NT
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