Originally posted by popcornbird
I really dislike hardwood floors. They're hard to take care of, and the one we had got scratched VERY easily. Its color also seemed to fade with time. Maybe it wasn't a good quality hardwood, but we had a bad experience with it and didn't want hardwood floors in our new house, nor did we want vinyl. The tiles looks great, and so far, so good.
My hardwood in the entry way and kitchen has been VERY durable. I just recently found out that our builder FUBARed and put in hardwood instead of the laminate we were supposed to get. Yipee! We were thinking of doing laminate in the living room and took one of the extra planks we have into the floor store. She looked at it and told us it wasn't laminate, but wood! Imagine my surprise. The bad part was the price to do the hardwood in our living room. It's a HUGE room (400+ sq feet), so that's out for now. I told Michael that had I known it was hardwood all along, I would have been much more gentle with it the last 5 years!

We currently have very nice commercial grade carpet that's glued to the concrete slab foundation. It's VERY easy to clean and holds NO odor if there's a pee pee accident. It never stains at all, vomit, poop, grease, it all comes out. It took me a while to get used to the feel of it, but after the way our old carpet with the pad smelled, I'll never have a pad again. It's just a huge sponge, holding all that yucky stuff.

Here's what it looks like: