Would you have a plain hall carpet and a patterned stair runner?

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We're having a bit of a mare - ordered a 'statement' carpet as a runner for our stairs. It's teal and cream herringbone design and was pretty expensive with bespoke yarn to whip the edges etc.

The plan was to sand the floorboards underneath the current hall carpet so it was a wooden floor on the hall and a statement runner. Lovely. Except we've lifted the carpet in preparation to be sanded and it's the only room in the entire house in which the floor has been butchered. It's a third wood, a third messy concrete and a third drywall.

The easiest/quickest solution is probably to put down carpet but I'm hesitant to put down the 'statement' carpet on the hall. Partly practical and partly cost reasons. I'm thinking of a plain cream carpet at half the price.

Would that look weird?

Possibly a bit like this but teals and creams instead of blue/grey. And no where near as nice!

We are currently toying with having a plain hall and landings carpet, and a stripe stair carpet (not a runner as our stair boards aren’t good enough). The reason for this is that we have two turns in each of our staircases and so we can’t have a stripe on the landings even if we wanted it. I think it’s ok. I am hoping to buy the carpets from the same manufacturer so that it is easier to choose a plain carpet that has one of the colours of the stripe.

Yes plain and stripy looks great, I like stair carpet when it's just a runner too

We’re having a striped stair runner and will be having a plain landing carpet on a co-ordinating colour (not sure what yet as the carpet is multi-coloured). I think as long as you get a shade that complements the runner then it will look fine.

Yes, it'll look great.

Thanks guys. Was gutted about the floor being a mess and not able to be sanded but I am hoping the carpet will look really nice now.

I personally wouldn't go for a cream hall carpet, unless you cover it in a huge mat, otherwise it will look really grubby quickly. We have a stipend carpet in our stairs and lvt wood effect in the hall - not as nice as real wood, but soooo east to keep clean!

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We've got a statement stair carpet and plain carpet in hall and landing which picks out one of the colours from the stair carpet, and it looks fantastic.

Yes, just pick one of the plain colours. Are you sure about cream though! If yes, get one you can bleach clean.

Cream definitely wouldn't be my first choice but the statement one is teal and cream and I'm unsure about teal as the plain one. Hmm. Agree on the bleach cleanable if we go for cream!

We did this as our landing is small and goes in two different directions. We have a cream coloured landing carpet and a stripe containing the cream in thin stripes on the stairs. It works well.
We ended up putting Amtico on the hall floor. It is a vinyl tile that looks like timber in a herringbone pattern. It is proving to be more durable than the carpet we had in the hall before.

Do not have cream! It will look tatty within months. Check out another colour or what about Karen dean or similar? We had wood with a striped carpet up the stairs in an old house.

Why not lay a wooden floor? 🤔

We've toyed with laying a wooden floor but there are a few things that put me off.

• we have engineered wooden flooring in a different hall/living room and if we got flooring and underlay and fitting to match that it would be astronomical for the space. DH could lay it but it would take ages.

• we could get a different wood from the other hall that was cheaper but it we would end up with loads of different woods throughout the house

• on a similar point to above, basically we were planning to sand/oil a sitting room and hall that are connnected and the stairs are off the hall. If we lay wood in the hall there would be the original floor boards in the sitting room, the new wood in the hall and a different wood on the stairs with the runner. I am not keen on how that would looks and it would make the hall and sitting room on different levels with a join.

So, we haven't ruled out wood but it will be more expensive, more hassle/time consuming and I'm not sure how it will look. Definitely easier to keep clean.

The benefit of the carpet is all we need to do is pick a carpet and add it to our existing order and on the fitting date in November they come along and fit it all and we can move on with our lives...

I'll speak to DH again about the wood this morning. I know he's keen for it but I just want an easy life!

I appreciate all the input! Thanks.

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We are currently toying with having a plain hall and landings carpet, and a stripe stair carpet (not a runner as our stair boards aren’t good enough). The reason for this is that we have two turns in each of our staircases and so we can’t have a stripe on the landings even if we wanted it. I think it’s ok. I am hoping to buy the carpets from the same manufacturer so that it is easier to choose a plain carpet that has one of the colours of the stripe.

We have this, we picked out a colour from the stripey carpet for the plain coloured carpet on the landings and turns and it looks great

I’d probably go for the wood or stone tiles for long term ease. So you can mop the floor. Can you pay for it to be fitted so it’s quicker?

@altiara yep, we've roped in my dad to help and ordered the wood. So we'll have wooden floor in the hall and sitting room and a statement runner on the stair. I think it will look amazing and I'm really happy!

Sounds great!