Best surfaces for a dog resistant unit

If I were building from scratch I would go with wood look tile with in floor heating for the most dog proof floor. If you refuse to do that then the next option is a wood floor like my friends in Indiana have. It’s matte finish and it’s distressed. It already scratched in muliple directions. It has knots and multiple colors. It has very tight seams. If you use laminate and dog pee gets in a seam and gets under the floor it will lift.

For furniture in a mountain cabin I would go with as much metal as I could. Metal table and chair legs, bedframe/headboard. Ironwork look is what I picture but you could probably also use that “industrial” look that’s popular now. Used, secondhand stuff can sometimes be found inexpensively and it looks good. But I wouldn’t want a mismash just to save money.

If you think you will attract a lot of dog people and have an appropriate place for one you might consider installing a baby gate. For example if I had a mud room I’d put a baby gate in the doorway.

My pet fee is $12 per night per dog but I do vary/discount if there is more than one dog or more than one night. I think $60 is the most I’ve charged anyone in pet fees. I’ve only had one incident and that is where a woman’s pup had nervous diarrhea in one spot. She cleaned it as best she could with just paper towels and notified me right away. She offered to pay for professional carpet cleaning and she paid same day. We went through Venmo, not Airbnb. And I was happy to book them in on their return trip two months later. I buy cheap $3 fleece throws for people to spread out on the bed or use on the floor. Then I tell them to take them with them because getting the dog hair off of them is more work than it’s worth. I also provide dog waste bags, and a dog treat. Keep in mind I don’t have a whole house or even a large suite. It’s a small bedroom 10x11, a short hall and a small bathroom.

Oh, I’ve also got some light dog scratches on the inside of the entry dog. I don’t know which dog or dogs did it. So if you can paint the inside of the door with very durable paint, I’d do so. Next time I paint the inside of this door I’m going to spray paint it with appliance epoxy.

Another thing is people with dogs love to think leather is a good choice. It’s easy to clean dog hair off of but for anything else, it’s not great. Dog pee on the leather surface can soak in and be there forever. The products that treat pee keep dogs from smelling it but in my experience once a dog has peed on a surface it’s marked forever.