Comments on: Berber musings

By: willa

willa — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:37:04 +0000

shot in the dark that you’re still checking out the comments on this thread, but i want more info about the martha stewart living! i’ve been keeping my eye out all month and haven’t seen it, is it online, in the magazine? i am very curious to see two things i read avidly (your blog/martha stewarts empire) collide!

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:17:46 +0000

Two words: Bissell Spotbot. My two cats are the barfingest, horkiest creatures on the planet ( large, brown, semi-digested puddle anyone?) and I moved into an apartment with brand-new beige carpet 6 months ago. It still looks amazing, many worshipful thanks to the Spotbot. And the best part is– the thing cleans ALL BY ITSELF. You turn it on and it scrubs and vacuums and everything, and gives you a beepity-beepity “I’m all done!” alarm. The only drawback is that it cleans one plate-sized area at a time, but I have found that a good vacuum fluffs the carpet right back up. Seriously consider buying one of these things if you decide to go the carpet route.

By: kara marie

kara marie — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:16:45 +0000

I have a Bissell handheld spot lifter, too, and it saves the carpet repeatedly. (Big dog and two fat cats. Also, I’m clumsy and spill things a lot.) Also, not to be annoying, but our cats were major pukers (we’re talking puke nearly every day), and we switched them to a wet food that doesn’t contain wheat, after our vet explained that cats can’t process grains and most catfoods are chock full of grains. No puking, ever, now. And they’re way less bitchy. And poop less. Maybe something to think about.

By: sooboo

sooboo — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:43:15 +0000

I have tile in most of the house, but carpet in the bedrooms. Guess where the cats always barf? It’s almost like they know. Nature’s Miracle is awesome and it actually will penetrate the carpet pad (if they pee) if you spray enough on. Carpet is cozy and since it’s cold where you live, it would be nice to have it. We live in a warmer climate and spent the better part of today tearing out the newish carpet in one of the bedrooms. It’s now a cement floor, which works better because it’s currently an art studio. It was making the room very hot and I had a hard time getting the fleas out of it.

By: LLL

LLL — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:41:16 +0000

Carpet or tile. If you have kids and pets those two words (and floor covering solutions) should be your mantra.

By: Daily Tragedies

Daily Tragedies — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:47:36 +0000

Oh, do have a cream puff for me! I know exactly which Marriott you’re talking about, and, yes, proximity to the bakery couldn’t be better. Enjoy!

By: victoria

victoria — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:44:59 +0000

Have fun! We’ll miss you!!!

By: jen - lance's wife

jen - lance's wife — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:36:12 +0000

Good God – don’t put in carpet. We just moved from a house with all hard wood floors, to a new house with all carpet. I, too, thought I would love the ease of carpet. I hate it – with 4 kids, 2 dogs and one sloppy hubby I kick myself every freaking time that I have to pull out the rug cleaner. Get hardwood! :0)

By: Belle

Belle — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:44:41 +0000

After too many years of fighting the vomit/uncontrolled urination of a couple of our cats, we ripped out the family room carpet, replaced it with tile and an area rug, and we’ve been living peacefully ever since. When we pulled up the carpet and pad…..eeewwwww. Some of the moisture had reached the subfloor and that’s why the smell never would go away. Maybe one day we’ll go back to carpeting, but it will only be after the cats have gone to kitty heaven.

The thing to remember is your pets will only get older (hence more problems) and Riley will be more active. Cleats with mud, sports bags with mud, school bags with crud, you name it. I find it so much easier to sweep and mop than to drag out a vacuum sweeper that isn’t gonna pick up half the crud out of the carpet.

By: Heather B.

Heather B. — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:50:41 +0000

I have a very sick and strange addiction to hardwood floors. Only because it’s so easy to clean up whatever shit gets on them, as opposed to carpeting which, while yeah, it’s all cozy I suppose, but once stuff gets stuck in there, it’s in there for like life. I don’t have pets who shed or puke on the carpet, but human beings have shed hair (my roommate and TONS of it) and I was once deliriously ill and threw up. Let’s just say it gets stuck in there and the only thing that will remove is a good old fashioned carpet cleaning. That was probably a little too much information, but really hardwood is just so freaking pretty. But like I said, I have a very odd addiction to it, thus the reason for why I feel compelled to rise in its defense.