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!!!

My carpet is a light brown and bomb proof. Thankfully

Not really though, you just can't see the dirt, it's still dirty though.,,sorry, probs not what you wanted to hear.😂

We've just had a new light coloured bedroom carpet and it's bleachable!! Was slightly more expensive than the previous carpet but promises to wear well.
Looks lovely, although I do realise that a bedroom has less traffic than a living area, it's in DS's room (16) so potential for plenty of spillage and mess!

why dont you keep the walls white, have the brown sofa and then paint the skirting boards teal?
personally id replace carpet with wood but if not why not a charcoal carpet ?

Cream carpets are only for houses or rooms where no children or pets ever set foot.
I have a cream bedroom carpet. I love it. Ds did throw up on it about 3 weeks after it was laid It just about survived this and 10 years later and no further mishaps it still looks lovely. But I wouldn't put a cream carpet anywhere else in the house. Pps' suggestions of wood floors and rugs are spot on.

Go for a bicuit mix colour it hides dirt well and is light enough

Don't get dark grey or black carpets either.
My parents made that mistake and it looked even worse covered in bits of lint and anything light would show up.

They swapped it for a wool loop Berber rig in mottled grey and that does a far better job

I second the fleck carpet. I have creamy beige fleck loop carpet and it's genius as you can't tell a mark from a fleck.

I have two words... vax rapide if you have your heart set on cream ... worked miracles on mine

Just have a neutral oatmeal fleck, it will be 10x more forgiving. Good quality so you can Rug Doctor it every so often.

There's a good reason why 50% of the carpets in the showrooms are variations of oatmeal heather.

DON'T DO IT! I have cream carpet in my dining room worse waste of money in my life.

Sandy coloured carpets here of that polypropylene stuff. Don't. Do. It.
a) they get really dirty (wash and vacuum all the time)
b) they don't wear well get squished quite quickly. I love standing on bits of carpet that have been under furniture and remembering how good they felt when new
c) they melt, really easily. (Don't ask)

Good quality wool carpet of a colour still to be decided or hard wood flooring. IMHO that's the way to go.

If we had wood I'd roller skate on it! Too cold though I think so I'm saving up for wool carpets.

We renovated our house when I was pregnant with our first & 4 days before our baby arrived our light beige carpet was fitted & fabric sofa delivered. Everyone with kids told us we had made a huge mistake but 5 years on our carpet & sofa are still clean. We have had vomit, shit, coffee & mud on the carpet but I've always cleaned up right away & no stains. We don't ask guests to remove shoes unless they are obviously muddy.

Get the carpet you like.

My cream carpets look crap with two young DC and I wouldn't recommend them. I put sheets down on the floor to catch the food the 1yo drops and we rarely wear shoes in the house and they still look noticeably crap.

I've got wooden floor on the ground floor and just bought cream carpets for upstairs. I 'think' this should hopefully be ok!

I would never get cream carpets with my dds and they are 7 and 5 wooden floors are your friend and get a lovely big rug, you can chooe the different shades of wood flooring too, so if you wanted to get a lighter one you could.

I have a light biscuit-ish carpet all upstairs. Looks fab!

MIL laid a cream carpet in dining room. A week later had friends round for dinner. One of them (clearly a bit over zealous with the shoe cleaning) got shoe polish all over it. Ruined.

I don't think it is as bad as people are making out - we had it for years some kind of neutral flecked carpet which didn't show every crumb and it was fine. Apart from in the hallway because there wasn't sufficient room to remove shoes/wipe shoes first before walking on it.