Should your stairs and hall co-ordinate?

[YellowEllis]

Weird one!

Thinking of having a slate look floor in our hallway and I'm worried about it meeting the very pale cream carpet on our stairs and looking odd. Google is failing me!

Should they be similar colours so they blend better? Has anyone got an example of dark meeting light and does it look ok?

I'm wondering about this as we're going for a wooden floor in the hall (extension of rest of downstairs) but i want a white painted staircase with a carpet runner in unknown colour!

I think if i'd got a pale cream carpet on the stairs which was newish i'd maybe go for a creamish stone floor in the hall.

It's tough as I want the same carpet throughout the house, but we want a slate floor in the kitchen and I feel like I'd need to carry it out through to the hall too or it would look strange as it would have to be totally different to anything else in the house, as I don't want carpet in the hall. I can't picture it at all! I'm hoping someone has it and it looks fine!

We have different flooring from the hall to the stairs, wood to pale carpet. I don’t think I would personally choose slate but I also don’t think it would be problematic with a light carpet. You might want to think about more grey tones than yellow tones in the carpet though.

I don't have it but I think as its a cream carpet and a dark slate floor it would be ok, as they're two opposite textures as well as opposite colours. And they're both neutral so compliment each other. I plan to have a dark wood floor in my hallway and a pale carpet going up the stairs.

Absolutely would work. I have wooden floor in hallway, pale grey carpet on stairs and all walls and woodwork white. SO fresh and clean all year round with some lovely grey accessories.

Also, it runs to my door to the kitchen which has a pale cream tiled floor. I like it bright and airy as the house isnt huge

I’ve got dark wood in my hall and pale carpet on my stairs, not as pale as cream but that’s because I know cream is not a colour I can keep clean, lol - looks fine.

Can’t say as I’d have slate in a hall though... I’d do just the kitchen tbh and have something different in the hall.

Pinterest should be your friend here...

That would be the kitchen, hall (apart from the carpet) and third pic is our carpet!

Yes it would def work - in my old house (Pre-divorce), we had a solid oak floor in the hall room and then cream carpet on the stairs leading directly from the wood - it worked really nicely and looked fab (I miss it!)

Might risk it then! It's either that or a cream beige tile but I'm worried there will be no contrast then