Carpet. One colour everywhere or different colours in different rooms?

[InTheRoseGarden]

I've just had a tonne of building work done and am carpeting the whole house apart from bathrooms etc. that are tiled. It's a three storey house.

I am really struggling to work out whether to go for a single colour throughout or whether to have, for example, one colour for the stairs and landings, another in the front room and maybe one for the bedrooms. I would perhaps get a lighter beige for the bedrooms, a darker one for the stairs and not sure for the front room.

Any advice? I am a bit challenged in the style department

[Toomanycats99]

We have chocolate brown in living room, hall stairs and landing. Pale beige in the bedrooms. The chocolate is a more hard wearing carpet as obviously it gets much more use.

[annammarsden]

Hmmm!
I had a 3 storey house once and it came with predominantly carpeted areas...but, we found the entrance hall,kitchen and bathrooms worked well with the same tiles and the rest of the areas were a neutral carpet...great for creating different colour schemes by using rugs, bedding, cushions etc...far cheaper and easier to replace these when bored rather than the carpets! 🤔

[Whwhywhy]

It seems a bit dated to do lots of colours? Maybe just cos when I grew up in the 70s and 80s we had lots of different colours. All rooms done at different times, reds, greens, orange, pink.

Shame not to do it all the same if you can. Obviously if you are just replacing an area you can’t.

Always remember most shops will sell you the same carpet in different heaviness? Don’t know the right work but you can get heavy duty for the stairs and less heavy duty for bedrooms etc

[SuperBeagle]

One colour throughout, absolutely.

I'd be put off buying a house with different carpet in different rooms, because I'd be thinking, "Well, I'm going to have to replace that". Whether the future saleability of your property is a concern or not, though, I don't know.

[NotSureThisIsWhatIWant]

I would go for one colour through out. It looks more “professionally” done to have some constant theme running around the house.

[wowfudge]

There's neutral as a backdrop in every room and then there's the same carpet throughout. That is what is unimaginative.

A single neutral carpet throughout does limit your decor choices because it'll be yellow based, or brown based or grey based, etc and not everything will go with one of those.

[HerRoyalNotness]

One neutral carpet.

We bought a house that had a mustard shade downstairs, and each bedroom was a different colour. Was really bonkers and the first thing we changed

[PasstheStarmix]

I personally don’t like too much carpet and prefer hard floors downstairs too. I’m a massive fan of area rugs.

[Regularsizedrudy]

I’m really surprised at the number of votes for one colour throughout. I think it looks really dull and frankly a bit cheap. It’s the kind of thing a landlord does.

[PasstheStarmix]

We have same colour carpet stairs and landing but slight different weave in master bedroom and same weave in the other bedrooms but different colours but they all tie in nicely so no horror show when landing doors are open

[namechangedtoday15]

*really odd!

[namechangedtoday15]

I agree - 1 colour throughout. I don't agree that a carpet needs to match the decor - if you're having a blue bedroom, are you seriously going to have a blue carpet? As Jojo says, carpet in a neutral colour just provides a backdrop for the decoration. Unless you always shut all of the bedroom doors so you can't see the carpet, think it would look really to to be able to see different carpet in each room

We only have carpet upstairs, all light grey and the same colour on the stairs and landing in a different weave with a very faint narrow stripe.

We have solid wood flooring throughout the downstairs with a rug in each of the seating areas.

[PasstheStarmix]

If you’re going all carpet than same carpet throughout except bedrooms. If a mix than same carpet on stairs and landing and hard floors flowing through downstairs.

[JoJoSM2]

I think carpets are a bit like door handles or skirting boards - just a bit of background stuff that is best uniform. I think rugs look stylish and area rugs bring rooms together and I use them in almost every room (on top of carpets, wooden floors or tiles). Patterned carpets can often look like a cheap pub or a dated hotel so it's a more challenging thing to get right and personally I'm not a fan.

Here are some examples of rooms with neutral carpets and rugs over. I think they're stylish rooms and definitely not bland.

[wowfudge]

I agree it's bland and if you end up buying rugs to make each room look different, then what's the point?

[ScreamingLevitation]

Everyone I know who has 1 carpet throughout has beige, grey or somewhere in between. A non-colour. Their walls are somewhere from white - greige. Seriously, you would need some pretty dramatic art and rugs to warm up that level of bland. I prefer to take some time and put quite a lot of thought into each room. Then again, I've lived in current home 10+ years and not finished redecorating yet, so there are pros and cons to this approach

[PandasRock]

Stairs and landings one colour.

Rooms have carpet to suit use and/or decor.

It’s all personal taste, though, isn’t it?

I couldn’t come up with a colour which suited all rooms/decor, aside from cream/stone/beige which I detest (and is a bigger to keep looking good) so the decision was easy.

[tattychicken]

I have a friend who owns a flooring company and she has the most amazing carpets in her house. Beautiful patterns from Brintons, different in every room. Thistles and flowers and tartans. They really define each room and are stunning. The house is large and imposing so can carry it off, not sure it would work to the same extent in a normal house, but it really made me open my eyes to the possibility of venturing away from my bland "beige in every room" carpet choices.

[wowfudge]

How boring to have the same carpet everywhere. For starters, different weights and fibre mixes suit different areas so if you use the same carpet everywhere you are potentially looking at spending more than is actually necessary to have the same carpet in bedrooms as in the hall, stairs and landing. And what happens if the carpet wears more obviously in a high traffic area but the rest is fine? Do you really want to replace all the carpet in order for it still to match everywhere?

The same carpet everywhere limits what décor you can have too.

If it's a small house or you have an open plan space then it can make sense to have the same carpet - it can make somewhere look bigger, they do it show homes.

[JoJoSM2]

I prefer the same carpet throughout unless it's a pretty big property. I'd just go with sth neutral and then add area rugs to give rooms individual personalities.

[Ivygarden]

One colour. However, you will need an expensuve carpet and underlay on the stairs as highest footfall so if cost comes into it, put a cheaper carpet in bedrooms

[WhatWouldTheDoctorDo]

We have three floors - same karndean flooring on ground floor, another colour of karndean flooring throughout 1st floor, 2nd floor has same carpet throughout (except bathroom). Both sets of stairs have the same carpet which tones with the 2nd floor carpet. I'd have found it a bit dull to have the same carpet throughout the whole house and it allows for a bit of flexibility in decorating style on each floor.

[echt]

Where carpeted; stairs and upstairs bedrooms, all one colour in my house.

Bathrooms have tiled floors.

Kitchen, downstairs bedrooms, corridors and living rooms all hardwood floors with rugs.

[franktheskank]

We have parquet downstairs, stone flooring in bathrooms, chequerboard in en suite, but all bedrooms, landing and fairs are a light grey.

Only difference is my room and dressing room and the girls rooms have glitterbut same colour and brand as the other carpets.

[theloniousmonk]

I don’t like all the carpets the same colour it reminds me of cheap renovation projects in the 00s.