My kids and I moved into a new house in March, first house after renting a few years, post-divorce. I say that because it's just me trying to figure out a solution to my problem. It's a 1-story house, with tile throughout most of the common rooms and carpet in the bedrooms. The exception to this is my living around is carpeted, and surrounded by tile. My living and kitchen is basically one big room. The living portion of it is carpet and that area is surrounded by tile that flows through the rest of the house. Why they did that one area as carpet is beyond me.
Anyway, my kids have a cat, and older cat (12 years old), that is having a lot of issues. Suffice it to say she has wrecked the carpet. It really needed to be replaced anyway, but I hate to replace carpet with more carpet. Short of somehow managing to find the same exact tile and just finishing off the room, does anyone have ideas or suggestions on what might work to replace the carpet with ( I mean besides getting rid of the cat :) ? I mean, I guess ideally the best approach would just be to change out ALL of the flooring in that one room / area, the entire living room portion, but that could get a little pricey. The cheapest being pulling up the carpet in that one area and replacing with wood or laminate or vinyl plank or something of that nature. I'm just not sure how that would look, trying to mix tile and some other hard surface flooring.
Oh, and please excuse some of the clutter in the pictures, I'm in the middle of painting kids rooms :)