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Hello! I appreciate your response, thank you! My husband works on the road, but next time he is home, we are going to pull up the carpet in the bedroom and see what we have to work with underneath. I’m considering doing laminate flooring with a rug or 2 for comfort. I do have curtains, but wondering about different window treatments as well. I dust with a wet cloth or spray, just to make sure I’m not just swishing dust into the air. I was running an air purifier, but it really didn’t seem to be catching much or doing much good. Some places I read seem to suggest I need a better one. Other research seems to suggest don’t bother with one, just have a good HVAC filter. Last year we moved from in town to an acreage, so there is just a lot more going on, allergy wise, than I’ve ever been used to

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@kariabrown We made a choice when our house was built to have no carpet and put in prefinished hardwood floors. I can have throw rugs where needed that can be cleaned. If you have other sensitivities, you may want to think about fake wood flooring materials. Some may be vinyl. I recently stayed at a hotel with flooring like this and it shut down my lungs completely. I was constantly using inhalers. The windows didn’t open, so the air had whatever was outgassing from the building materials. You can always try to test something by living with some material in the room without installing it to see if you are reacting to it.