We're having a sunroom and it's going to get a lot of...sun! Will more sunlight make the carpet have a shorter life? Will it discolor the carpet? Finally, is there a kind of carpet you would recommend for the sunroom? Which types of carpets will be best fit for this type of room?

You have a sun room? Are you in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia? If so,how much 'sun' do you need in a room in Riyadh?

Or do you sell carpets to Westerners for them to put in their sunrooms?

If you need advice on the effects of sun on carpets, why not ask around where you are? Everyone (apart from you, oddly) in the capital city of a Desert Kingdom where carpets are important culturally and are manufactured , must surely know.

On the off chance that this is an earnest question- Yes, if you use traditional wool,silk or flax for your sunroom floor covering, the sun will destroy it in a matter of 2 or 3 years, even if the rug was created to last ten generations.

For this use, I would recomend jute, bamboo, or any one of several man-made fibers- many available now are made entirely from recycled materials.
If you'll do an internet search for "Outdoor Rugs" you'll find a wide variety of floor coverings suitable for use in a sunroom, solarium or patio.

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Yes carpeting in direct sunlight even through UV glass will have a shorter life, color wise. Further the high amounts of plastic in carpeting (poly-OMG so 70's- ester) breaks down - this breaking down is not the same as decomposition, it only means that each fiber exposed to direct UV will become more brittle and 'crack' over time.

Ceramic tile or stone is perhaps the best flooring material in an area exposed to lots of direct sunlight.

Desert locations (hot days, cool nights, arid conditions) one usually finds more things like ceramic/terracotta, stone floors in areas of direct sunlight. Usually as part of a passive solar system where the winter lower sun heats the tiles (and in cases of concrete slabs beneath, the concrete as well) that in turn radiates heat back into the room at night. In summer when the sun is high and not hitting the floor as much, the thermal mass of the tile and concrete helps to cool the place.

Wood is a semi-good idea, however it needs to be stripped and refinished more often, also there will be changes in the color of the stain. It has a lower thermal mass, more of an insulating quality than stone/ceramic. But it lasts longer than carpeting.

Carpeting is an all around bad idea, there is no way to ever clean it completely, a good deal of sand, dust, and debris sifts through to the pad (and below). I have never removed carpeting and found a clean floor, I have more often than not found old carpet fresh, mixed with dust, in many cases even mold beneath the pad. Thus if this sun room is also going to see a lot of indoor/outdoor traffic with people coming and going all the time, it most likely will collect far much more dirt and debris than say a bedroom.

(I fail to see how carpet relates to drywall, Chinese or otherwise)