Doing up to sell the house, cream carpets bad idea?

[WorriedDad23]

We are in the middle of a renovation/face lift hoping to get it finished before putting the house on the market soon after.

Living room, extension/dining room and stair/landing carpets need replacing as they are damaged/ripped beyond repair .

We recently installed light oak laminate on hallway and kitchen so when we were matching carpet colours only the slightly darkish cream colour seem to go with light oak laminate. And we really like that colour too.

On top of that we feel a lighter colour will make the house look fresh.

Is this a bad idea? will it give a bad impressing to the house?

It's a 3 bed md terraced property in a easy to sell area.

We have one DS whos is 12 so he's old enough not make a mess.

I've read many horror stories about cream carpets here on regular use but any experiences with them when buying/selling houses?

Thanks

Carpet in the dining room?? Can you not extend the oak laminate instead? Cream carpet sounds fine for the living room, stairs and landing though.

It would look nice but it would put me off buying the house. I went though the cream carpets trend and they were wrecked within a year. Can you go for a coffee colour or neutral grey?

I’d go more taupe otherwise it will put some people off. This sort of shade.

having lived in a house with cream carpet which was a nightmare to keep clean i would discount any house with brand new cream carpets as it would be wasteful to dump them you would be better off either going all laminate or a beige carpet

Quite aside from whether it will put people off, what if a viewer treads mud all over them when they come to look round your house? In showhomes they sometimes make people wear those little shoe covers - would you do that?!

I really wouldn’t bother spending money on new flooring that won’t be to everyone’s taste - people who don’t want either cheap carpet or cheap laminate will be pricing up in their head how much it’s going to cost them to replace it all with decent carpet or wood or LVT, rather than thinking your house is worth more because the flooring is new. Hire a carpet cleaner to get out the worst of the dirt and leave it to buyers to have a blank canvas.

Like @SilverGlassHare I too thought of viewers tramping through your newly cream carpeted home with mud or, even worse, dog poo on their shoes.
DON'T DO IT

Honestly don't do it. There are thousands of beige carpets around, there's bound to be one to tone with your flooring.
It costs no more to have a darker colour. My criteria is light brown and slightly heathered so that it doesn't show every coffee drip.

@LakeShoreD

Carpet in the dining room?? Can you not extend the oak laminate instead? Cream carpet sounds fine for the living room, stairs and landing though.

It's the extension which we used as a hangout area but it was not getting used so we thought to stage it as the dining room so that it makes the existing kitchen/dining room more roomier

@ComtesseDeSpair

I really wouldn’t bother spending money on new flooring that won’t be to everyone’s taste - people who don’t want either cheap carpet or cheap laminate will be pricing up in their head how much it’s going to cost them to replace it all with decent carpet or wood or LVT, rather than thinking your house is worth more because the flooring is new. Hire a carpet cleaner to get out the worst of the dirt and leave it to buyers to have a blank canvas.

We had to remove our back boiler in the living room , so now there is a section in the living room opened up which was earlier boxed up , while it made the living room more bigger but that section has no carpet.

So we have to either get it patched up or put a new carpet, since the existing colour is a darker grey which doesn't go with the rest of the house now anyway we thought best to replace it altogether. To make it more presentable.

I’ve recently carpeted to sell, sold within a week - I have used this quite neutral coloured carpet and it’s hard wearing. The woven pattern helps detract the eye from every tiny mark too. I like it.

Cream carpeted houses sell quicker so def do it.

@Snowpaw

I’ve recently carpeted to sell, sold within a week - I have used this quite neutral coloured carpet and it’s hard wearing. The woven pattern helps detract the eye from every tiny mark too. I like it.

My mum had carpet like that, but a bit more flecked. It's nice and neutral and crumbs are perfectly camouflaged so doesnt need hoovering all the time. I'd just clean the carpet or sand the floorboards if that's an option.

Would you leave dreadful 1970's type swirly coloured carpet, take up and leave floors bare or replace with cheap light carpets? Sorry to derail but also very interested as to what people would do.

Thanks for suggestions all, point taken, will go with a darker colour

We just have to put some carpet up as we tidied up rest of the house really well over last couple of months, so if we try to skimp on the carpet and reuse old ones and patch them up it will really let down rest of the house tbh.

I would buy a house with cream carpets because to me it would look like the house was well looked after if the cream carpets looked fresh and clean. However, I would ask people viewing the house to take their shoes off so the carpets don’t get wrecked, this will also reinforce the fact that you take good care of the house.

My MIL fitted cream carpets just before we arrived ( from abroad) with 6mo and 2 1/2 yr. Tha wasn’t wasn’t the best idea anyone has ever had but it was a SIL with freshly polished black leather shoes who actually did the damage :D

It would be a nightmare to keep looking spick and span for showing around, IMO.

Don't do it. I've just moved into a house with cream carpets ... they're wrecked now, and we've only been here for about five minutes.

A cram carpet would make my heart sink, and be a negative on the look round for me, but, like everything else, it would depend what other options there were to buy in the area. As a rule though, if I am paying a premium for new carpet throughout, I'd want it to be a carpet that we could live with for several years. Won't be a deal breaker if everything else were right of course, but wouldn't be a positive, for sure.

I replaced the carpets in all the bedrooms to sell our house and the first thing the buyers did was ripped them all up anyway. £2000 down the drain. I would honestly be inclined to just leave them

@Jessie75

I replaced the carpets in all the bedrooms to sell our house and the first thing the buyers did was ripped them all up anyway. £2000 down the drain. I would honestly be inclined to just leave them

I get your point, but in our case we'll have to patch up living room carpet and still rest of the carpets in shambles really plus colours won't match up with rest of the house ,

I'd have to have to price to sell the house but in reality whole carpeting job will cost me around £800-900, so it doesn't make economical sense to just leave them even if the new buyer going to rip them off .

@Snowpaw

I’ve recently carpeted to sell, sold within a week - I have used this quite neutral coloured carpet and it’s hard wearing. The woven pattern helps detract the eye from every tiny mark too. I like it.

How much did it cost per sqm just for the carpet if you don't mind sharing please?