We have laminate downstairs except for kitchen and cloakspace which are vinyl. Not too bothered if visitors go upstairs, where there are carpets, in shoes. Neither were shoes inside an issue in my parent's house but remember friends houses where shoes off was a rule.
Anyone else remember bit in seventies dramatisation of 'Carrie's War' where evacuees were told to straddle the carpet placing feet in the margin either side.
Good carpets last though. My sis and I recently revisited the house our grandmother lived in. Same stair carpet, retained with rods, that was there 50 years ago.
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