Is it really naff to have different colour carpets all over the house

[MumsyPiemaker]

All shades of cream/oatmeal/beige though. The hallway is like an oatmealy cream and very practical to hide dirt, the lounge and dining room a creamy beige, DS is cream with terracotta flecks and we are about to buy a whitish cream for our bedroom and the little spare room.

Otherwise we would have to recarpet everywhere which would be way expensive.

I thought everyone had different coloured carpets in different rooms

Not at all but it does make things feel smaller when you can see trough to other rooms.

I am shocked you can have a cream carpet with children though!

they all sound like variations on a colour theme. It's not like you have red carpet in the living room leading to green carpet in the hall leading to blue carpet on the stairs, is it ?

I have very pale cream carpet on all but kitchen, hall and bathroom/loo floors and I have 3 kids and 2 black cats. Carpets are absolutely fine.

ours are all different.
different beige's in lounge, hall/stairs/landing, ds1's room and my bedroom, navy in bedroom, turquoise in ds2's room and terracotta in bathroom.
All as when we moved in.
I wouldn't say naff, but I wouldn't choose the colours we have either.

Do you have a carpet cleaner?

Seriously with the amount of filth I hoover and mop up from our wooden floors I cannot imagine having carpet, let alone a pale colour. It does look lovely though.

I think toning shades of beige sound fine.

It's all down to what you like isn't it...I am not a fan of the 'green leading onto pink look' personally (especially if patterned) [headache emoticon], and I agree it does tend to make the place look smaller.

TDWP, no carpet cleaner but we are a strictly no shoes household and the kids cannot have food outide of the kitchen and no coloured drinks outisde of kitchen either.

They don't seem to be too scarred by the experience.

Don't worry - we have a Bissell and DS's room has the terracotta flecks in it (and we don't keep our shoes on) - yes Im one of those no shoes in the house freaks .
I think I have become paranoid after hearing a snotty remark about different colour carpets on one of those house programmes. Although it does look nice with same carpet throughout doesn't it - even if each room has a different colour scheme. But the carpet I would have in the hallway, I would not want in the bedroom.

Fair enough. I'm too lazy to enforce rules like that. Which is a perverse attitude really as it just means more mess to clean up.

If you live in an oldish house and don't like the carpets you could try ripping up the carpets and sanding and varnishing the floorboards (a) cheaper (b) looks great (IMO)

That would be lovely if we had floorboards - we must be the one of the few 1930's semis with bloody concrete floors (downstairs) and lumpy concrete at that. We have considered tiling, but that would be very expensive (and cold). If we were to have the flooring changed the concrete would have to be re-levelled, we would want underfloor heating and as we are open plan downstairs, I'd want it in the kitchen as well, which would mean re-modelling the kitchen too.
I only found out about the floors after we had exchanged contracts - I just assumed they would be floorboards.

We have wooden floors down stairs then the same cream carpets all the way through upstairs.Would never ever have carpet down stairs with my children. No food/shoes etc upstairs. If i moved and i had different colours everywhere i wouldn't replace them till they where worn out though. Its such a waste to replace just because its not quite right. my mum would say "just think yourself lucky you have carpet....when i was a lass...."

And you might find something amazing. My friend lives in a victorian terrace and couldn't afford to replace the carpets so lived with really awful ones for ages. Then her son turned on the kitchen tap just before they went out and she came back to find the whole place sodden. When her dad ripped the carpets up they found amazing mosaic tiles in the hall and kitchen and parquet in the living and dining rooms. Worst thing is someone had nailed chipboard down all over it, then underlay and carpet , who on earth would do such a thing?

It was fairly damaged but she's cleaned it up nicely.

Oh Mumsy, what a PITA about the concrete.

Cross posted sorry. My parents house has concrete floors, they are a total nightmare.

Oh people do strange things DWP . When we moved into our 1920s house, thankfully it still had the original panelled doors, but the previous owber had nailed MDF over the panels to give that stylish flush look.

Oh she's sooo lucky. . I suspect ours had tiles to begin with then someone decided to concrete over everything. The ironic thing is that our house and our adjoining neighbours are the only ones in the whole street with concrete floor.

I thought my mum was the only person to describe carpets as "oatmeal"

Sep1712 you're so right. I'm going to give mine a good clean tomorrow. It would be such a waste to change the carpet just because they aren't "just so". They're OK and in good condition. Don;t you just hate it though when you hear these condescending throwaway comments on TV about people's houses. On Grand Designs they are always so snotty about UPVC windows for example - why?

Ooh I've got awful flashbacks from watching 'Changing Rooms' now and shrieking at the screen as they painted lovely original features with thick red gloss, and pulled out original doors and replaced them with a sequinned beaded curtain.

Mumsypiemker, maybe it had to be done , if i.e the foundations were found to be unstable?

Perhaps yes - I can remember clearly though that moment six years ago when I realised we had concrete floors - all my hopes of a lovely sanded wooden floor with funky rugs scattered around - dashed, ah well. Next time I look at a house, I shall look under the carpet first.

And test the soil outside - we have thick clay soil, not that lovely fine stuff they have in the gardeners world garden.