Children and Choices?

davsidipp

i had a lovely peter guild fabric sofa that cost the earth lemon and pale blue lasted till son was two years old and got so grubby got rid of it ,my choice even though he is 21 now i go for leather as i have two mucky jrts who i cant say no to sitting on sofa and are much easier to clean and mantain,just think of all the milky drink stains and sticky fingers leather comes out tops.

vippymini

Ive got 5 small ones and two old englis sheep dogs and we bought leather when my first one was little, easy to clean and maintain :-)

do_it_today!

Wow - thanks everyone sounds like a robust chocolate brown leather sofa it is then!
Things like carpets and sofa's are expensive and such a hassle to acquire it makes sense to try and get it right.... this is what I really like about this forum you can ask anything and always get good helpful answers

thank you

Mics_chick

Yep I agree with the choc brown sofa cos I've got a cream leather one and although it's wipeable. I have had biro on it once which I did get off with some good advice from this forum but I'm not sure whether it has taken colour out of sofa or not.

Another bit of advice is to have laminate flooring which I'm waiting for...! We inherited a creamy beige carpet when we moved in and it looks like a mechanic's rag now cos it's got so many stains on it! We've cleaned it so many times I've lost count! If you really want a carpet I'd go for a mid-beige colour cos it doesn't show up coffee or coke when it's spilt on it. I know this from experience after living in a house with a carpet this colour! Just make sure you don't ever give your kids blackcurrant juice or make sure they only drink it in the kitchen. It's possible to 'train' kids to do this as my friend did with her son - he would keep his drink on the kitchen table and keep nipping out whenever he wanted a slurp!!

Good luck with your house and your family-to-be MC

loracan1

I've got 2 smallish leather sofas - had them for about 13 years now and they still look good when they're cleaned properly. Despite boys of 5 and 10 using them as trampolines. They've had all manner of spills on them but of course it just wipes off (never quite got all the nail varnish off). I was only thinking it was a good thing they're leather when scraping off an after-eight mint that'd managed to cement itself to one of the seats the other day...

Becles

Mics_chick wrote:

Another bit of advice is to have laminate flooring which I'm waiting for...!

I agree!

I inherited a pale blue carpet and it was manky! Hubby just ripped it up this weekend and put distressed floorboard style laminate down, and it looks much smarter and easier to clean!

Knelley

My 2 boys are nearly 4 and 6 and I swear by my brown leather sofa and laminate flooring!! Yes, you feel like you can be cleaning them a lot BUT think how dirty your house could be if you had a carpet down and fabric sofas!

I had the cream leather and changed to the brown leather this year and it is great!!

The amount of times I had to clean up projectile baby sick from my flooring or couch:eek: made me thankful of them. The smell of that sick is hard to get rid of and after a wipe it just disapeared:j

do_it_today!

Great!
if we stay in this house the whole of downstairs has laminte flooring which is good - so leather it is :j

Thanks Misc_chick:j

Rachie_B

Knelley wrote:

My 2 boys are nearly 4 and 6 and I swear by my brown leather sofa and laminate flooring!! Yes, you feel like you can be cleaning them a lot BUT think how dirty your house could be if you had a carpet down and fabric sofas!

I had the cream leather and changed to the brown leather this year and it is great!!

The amount of times I had to clean up projectile baby sick from my flooring or couch:eek: made me thankful of them. The smell of that sick is hard to get rid of and after a wipe it just disapeared:j

:T i agree

my mum cant understand why i have wooden flooring ,:rolleyes: ,but i love it,it looks good and modern too
the thought of all that dirt embedding in the carpet :eek: :rotfl:

ok so it "sits" on the surface of wooden flooring but a vacuum once a day is all it takes to get rid

id never go back to carpets now !

kabie

My worst buy ever was a fabric sofa with kids: looks manky really quickly even though I clean it. I'd go for leather next time.
After reading the other posts I'm starting to regret ordering the carpet earlier today: was convinced by husband not to go for laminate in l'room!