Floor Coverings..... Pads, Rugs, Rubber Mats...

[MsMe]

I have the foam mats over hardwood in my toy room. i love them. they are colorfull but that is what I was going for. Each wall is a diffferent color( blue, yellow, orange, and green) I will have to look into this recall business!!

[ninosqueridos]

I love my foam mats - my walls are not loud so the mats help brighten it up. I have them in maybe 30% of my daycare room. I also have a regular rug (6X9) which works great.

[Childminder]

Use the foam tiles as padding underneath a piece of carpet or area rug? Try using some carpet tape to keep it from slipping. Then you can just vacuum and shampoo the carpet and is nice and padded for the babes.

I have a thick rubberized padding for use in gyms and dance studios under their flooring underneath my carpet. It is about 1 inch thick and is safe for a 4 foot fall. Kinda like playground rubber. Got it off craigslist.

[youretooloud]

I bought two cheap rugs this weekend. I put them OVER the foam mats.

I only spent about $30 on them, so I don't expect them to last long, but it will give me an idea if I want to spend more the next time. They're brown, so it matches the tile floor, and makes the room look less obnoxious.

I still have a large tile space in the middle of the floor, and two large tumbling mats, so it's not too much dullness either.

[MarinaVanessa]

I have tile in the kitchen and in the dining room. I know a lot of people don't like tile and thinks that it's cold but I like it best and the kids don't seem to mind it. If it's cold they keep their socks on but most of the time they take their socks off. It's easy to clean and I don't have to worry when things spill. Every so often (2-4 times a year) I steam the grout if it needs it. Hardly any scrubbing for me ever. We did it ourselves but if I had a choice and the money I'd have chosen wood or wood-like flooring. I bet that's easier to keep clean (no grout to worry about), warmer and it looks really nice.

The living room is part tile and part carpet. The carpet is beige so it's covered by a large rug which I shampoo (we own one) whenever it starts to look grimy. I don't have a dedicated daycare space so the floors match my home decor but if we ever move I'm either buying a house with a sun room or similar and laying slate or dark linolium like they lay in schools.

[trix23]

I have 2 rugs in my playroom and tile floors in the whole house (Florida)

[AmyKidsCo]

I have carpet and invested in a Riccar vacuum (close to $300 but worth it!) and a carpet cleaner. Eventually I want to rip up the carpet and put down laminate with dorm size area rugs to define spaces, but that's WAY down the road.

[hwichlaz]

They have the puzzle floor mats that are meant for gyms, that can be mopped and sanitized.

You can even get them to "look" like wood if you like.

https://www.amazon.com/We-Sell-Mats-Interlocking-Flooring/dp/B010MCXMBO/ref=sr_1_11?s=exercise-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1498666445&sr=1-11&keywords=gym+floor+mats