Laminate in bedrooms, what about the stairs?

[Alliolly]

We need to change our very old carpet upstairs. I'm leaning towards laminate in the bedrooms, OH is not very keen on the idea but is slowly coming around. The bit we can't agree on is the stairs - for him the only option is carpet. I can't imagine the carpet looking nice sandwiched between laminate downstairs and laminate upstairs. But I agree it would be safer with small kids, especially with our 5yo who is constantly running and jumping everywhere.

Maybe laminate and a stair runner? But would it work on a staircase with a turn/not straight?

If you have laminate upstairs, what flooring do you have on the stairs?

We have a toddler and recently removed the laminate from our bedrooms to replace with carpet as it was so so noisy for anyone downstairs. For your specific question, we had wood floors downstairs, full carpet on landing and stairs then laminate in bedrooms and noone ever made a comment that it looked odd. But with a running, jumping 5yr old, I'd seriously reconsider putting laminate in the bedrooms.

We’ve going for wood in the bedrooms and big thick rugs for the kids’ rooms. The ones we’ve chosen almost cover the whole exposed parts of the floor. Wood everywhere in the house except the stairs - carpet runner - and landing - carpet.

We have laminate in one bedroom (like that when we moved in, think it was their office). This ended up being my DS1s bedroom and it’s so noisy every time he moves around the room.

I have laminate in all rooms and carpet on the stairs and landings.

Thank you all. I am a bit worried about the noise too, but it's just so much easier to clean..

We have original wooden flooring in our bedrooms with carpet on the landing and a runner down the stairs. It doesn't look weird at all. Maybe put large rugs down in the children’s rooms?

I hope you have v v good underlay in the bedrooms! Will you get a carpet runner on the stairs? Noisy and more dangerous underfoot with just laminate.

I have carpet in bedrooms and in stairs, with wooden laminate on the landing and hallway. It doesn't Iook weird. I would hate laminate on the stairs themselves. (Noise and safety)

I’d never have laminate in the bedrooms! When I’ve stayed in places that do, I’ve found it cold, hard, echoing and just not nice. At a push I could tolerate bare floorboards, but plastic on my bedroom floors? No!

What everyone else says; laminate is very noisy.

We have posh lino everywhere but the stairs where we have carpet - for noise and grip

We have a big rug in the living room also so it's not the only plan that texture appears

I think our house looks lovely

I don't find laminate in the bedrooms noisy. We have it in three bedrooms. I chose carpet for my own bedroom as it was an extension above the garage and I thought it might be warmer but the bedroom is plenty warm enough and the carpet is a pain to clean, especially as the dog was sick on it a few times before she died a month ago. I'm going to have another go at removing the stains today.
We have carpet on stairs and landing.