What's everyone's opinion on flooring materials in a house with a larger dog.
Have real hardwood now, we're super careful and it's already getting beat up with only a small cat in the house just from moving stuff around or dropping stuff. Can only imagine the damage a dog or kids would cause on this floor.
With that in mind in a new build that comes standard with hardwood through entire main floor, would swapping that out for tile or laminate floor be stupid? I just don't want to deal with damaged, scratched and dented hardwood again.
Tile would probably be an upgrade, laminate probably a cost savings.