Time to replace the carpet.

[Asher]

Whatever you do, be sure it matches the drapes.

[Lorizael]

Lidless is more convenient.

My girlfriend and I are lazy ****s who don't take the trash out very often, so lidless would smell worse.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If you plan on using a wheeled office chair on it, forget wood or laminate. They destroy them.

[rah]

They have floor shields for those. Which you'd probably have to get for most carpets anyway.

[onodera]

If you plan on using a wheeled office chair on it, forget wood or laminate. They destroy them.

I put thin polyurethane foam bands on my chair's coasters.

[Cort Haus]

Our flat came with fairly expensive (we've been told) pine wood floor in the living-room. I like it.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

They have floor shields for those. Which you'd probably have to get for most carpets anyway.

A cheap rug does the trick.

[rah]

But the chairs usually roll better on the plastic shields.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

True, but they're the interior furnishing equivalent of a plastic pocket protector, or a wipe-clean tie.

[rah]

And a cheap rug is a cheap rug. Either way, we're not talking high style.

[ColdWizard]

My girlfriend and I are lazy ****s who don't take the trash out very often, so lidless would smell worse.

That's what composting is for

[C0ckney]

Lidless is more convenient.

you barbarian!

[Egbert]

The carpet could still last a few more years as it was new when I bought the place in 2004 but honestly it was a rather lack luster mid grade carpet the old owner put in just before I bought the place to help pretty the house up for sale. Seven years seems a good life span for carpet so I don't mind spending a bit of coin to get something nice.

Get another mid grade carpet. It limits the expense of the doggy damage and keeps the girlfriends feet warm.

[Addled Platypus]

just make sure the carpet and drapes match..... ya know what i mean

[Perfection]

Trampoline floors!