Talk me out of cream carpet!

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We have bought a lovely tan leather sofa and are now umming and arhhhing about wall colours. We like a dark teal colour (denim something by Dulux) but to pull it off I think we will need a light colour carpet.

We have 2 DC under 3!!!

Anyone got any better ideas? Pictures would be lovely!!!

Don't get a cream carpet, FFS.

You have 2 DC under 3. It'll look shite in days.

You'd never relax. All you'd need to do is sneezed whilst holding a coffee and the carpet is fucked.

And what if someone gets diarrhoea? Or vomits? Bye, nice carpet.

You need light wood floors with a lovely big rug.

You'd become one of those loonbags who makes guests remove shoes.

Oh, I can't talk you out of a beautiful cream carpet. They're lovely! But I can talk you out of the dull, grimy grey carpet

Yep, nice washable wooden floors. You can have a cream rug, a nice big one and after it has ribena, dog poo, baked beans and slices of pear ground into it. You can get a nice new one when you next decorate.

Ooo, yes.

Asking guests to remove shoes isn't that far off from having a fucking moat and a portcullis.

It's a natural step.

Do you really need the upkeep of a moat? Might attract beavers.

I wouldn't. I have a light beige carpet and that is a total nightmare to keep clean and it is just me and two well-behaved cats.

My ndns have a lovely light cream carpet.

But visiting them is stressful. We have to take our shoes off (I hate this) and feel completely paranoid about having a drink. It's very uneasy.

Beavers and cream carpets don't mix. They don't wear shoes either.

Please feel free to come to my house and look at the absolutely manky, stained rag that was once (not too long ago) a beautiful cream, good quality carpet.
It has been totally destroyed by my DS 2 and it makes me sad having to look at it every day. Can't afford a new one yet

Seriously, DONT DO IT

What about a bleachable polyplastic type one though? They look lovely and soft.

I'm mental aren't I?

Ho hum, back to the drawing board.

Buy a good quality scotch guarded one. We had cream carpet in last house, had a bottle of red wine poured on it and survived. Just get plenty of carpet cleaning products to hand

You could get a basket of naice communal beaver slippers to keep by the door.

Oh they are lovely - really. If I were you I'd also choose a waffley-textured one, you know, the sort with loop pile ends.

So that when the cats have scratched it up, and you've spilled red wine on it, and a guest accidentally dribbled coffee on it, and the toddler has smeared chocolate biscuit into the loops, and the Ribena their small friend spilled from their spill-proof beaker on the wipe-clean leather couch has run right off onto the floor, and the dirt has tracked lines into your most-walked routes between furniture, you can experience the regret and annoyance every time you walk into your living room to relax.

Or... not

If you've got a house big enough to ban anything but water from the room then maybe?

I've got and 80/20 pale wool carpet and two DSS 6 & 4. I've set fire to it twice (rogue sparks from the open fire) and split red wine, orange juice and curry on it. We don't let the DSSs eat in the sitting room!

I've also got a bissel spot cleaner and a full size carpet cleaner. It still looks like new but it's a lot of work, but I do love it.

I still look at it and think what the fuck was I thinking though!

And no, I don't make people take their shoes off...

Don't do it. Our carpet is still lovely under the rugs and in non-through routes! 😂

I hoover and clean constantly, we're v strict no shoes house and don't have indoor pets, and I'm forever using stain removal but this is only 18months in 😱

Sorry- carried away by the memory of our "lovely" cream carpet there- you asked for ideas! We have a light grey-ish carpet, that has flecks of different colours in it - yellows, blues, reds. Sounds hideous, I know. But it is totally genius - goes with all colours as the almost invisible flecks pick up different tones. Independent carpet shop lady put it in our sample pile as her "wild card" option and it's perfect. I'll try to find you similar/pic...

As long as you get polypropylene carpets you can bleach them... (houseful of beige carpets here)

You'll spend all your time cleaning it. Get vinyl/ laminate and a cream rug if you really want the cream. That way you can replace itevery year or so (though you'd still be cleaning it all the time).

I thought it'd be a nice idea for the sitting room....so we pretended we had a cream carpet

within abut 48 hours, red wine and coffee had been spilled, a cat had vomited, and someone let a dog from a nice muddy walk through without wiping paws. AND a log fell out of the fire scattering ashes and embers.

we decided to keep the hard floors.

Like this:

m.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-wool-rich-heather-40oz-twist-carpet/blackthorn/p/1497087

Ours is lighter, not quite this colour mix, but same principle. We then have cream rugs...

Don't do it! Our house has a cream fitted carpet (which I hate in general) in our main living room and it looks disgusting about half an hour after being hoovered. DD is only 7 months so it isn't an issue with her mess yet, but DP has managed to permanently stain it with soy sauce among other delights.

We are hoping to take a corner up to peek and see if the floorboards that are in the rest of the house are hidden underneath so we can remove the carpet totally.

If I were you I would have wooden floors and a really big rug, I'm sure you could find one with teal accents to bring the room together nicely. Easier to clean and easier to change if you get bored of your decor.

Our carpets are a lightish brown.

The colour of tea, coffee, milk chocolate, poo, mud, most dirt and some kinds of vomit.

Sometimes you just have to be honest with yourself and play the hand you're dealt.

We've got a lovely good quality cream carpet, we just didn't like any of the other colours. Before we had DC, the house looked huge, with wide expanses of light cream everywhere.

Now, most of the time, the floor is covered in toys. We tidied up today so that I could hoover, and dd1 declared that someone must have let a bird in because there was bird poo all over the floor

I'm on first name terms with a carpet cleaner, he's terribly nice and even my kids know him. DH has pointed out we could have replaced the carpet with what I've paid him over the last 3 years.

Do it but have it scotch guarded and/or buy a carpet cleaner. Ours is cream, doesn't stain and I give it a clean every couple of weeks, takes me twenty mins. Looks great. And every few weeks I've got three Big dogs running round it.

For anyone's who's is dirty, just get a professional carpet and upholstery cleaner in to clean it, costs about 30 quid I think a room and will bring it up like new. You don't have to live with dirty carpet. 😳

We had a party over the weekend. Lots of people. Lots of children. Lots of raspberry chocolate brownies.

I don't think I need to say more.

My carpet is a light brown and bomb proof. Thankfully.