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what colour carpets do you have...

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:07

If you do indeed have carpets at all in

a) your bedroom
b) your DCs bedroom(s)
c) the hallway

How did you decide? was it based on the wall colour, or was the wall colour based on your carpet colour?

Also, do you think that all bedrooms off the hallway should match in colour? Or is matching out?

Do you think having a bright child like colour such as red in a child's bedroom is not the 'done' thing these days?

What colour carpets are more 'neutral' but not beige?

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 17:40

Hi Pavlov,

I have a creamy colour in my bedroom but it shows every bit of dust - it was cheap though, needed something neutral and cheap!

Dc's bedroom is blue and red carpet tiles, for the time being - easy to clean and replace if destroyed, plus they are a flat pile so good for playing on.

We have red carpet elsewhere which hides everything, brilliant - especially if it is patterned like a Persian rug or something.

Hallway has floorboards and again a big red rug. I am thinking of vinyling it, but actually will prob just paint the boards again.

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:41

woo I agree, don't think much would go with green, other than green and brown.

I am thinking that we could get away with a completely different colour in the loft bedroom as its out of the way of everything else...and sage green with my brown and green sumptious duvet cover and comforter....that would look lovely

I think I might try to convince DH on all the same throughout, and break up with textures. Wish me luck

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:44

jumente we have a red colour in the hallway, with these yucky yellow diamond patterns in it. And it is too dark. Our hallway is not very light, and we have got rid of the mustard coloured walls, not finished but the darkest has gone. Once the loft is finished we will have a skylight at the top of the stairs so it will be lighter, and we can finish painting, but we have both agreed, no dark colours, and nothing busy. It just won't take it.

But we are getting a persian rug for the front room

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WowOoo · 20/06/2009 17:49

Ooh yeah. We have a lush persian rug in front room.

Am jealous as I love looking at, choosing and buying rugs. Good luck, tell us what you go for. Love the smell of new carpets too....[jealous] !

MrKrabs · 20/06/2009 17:49

ours is inherited sagegreen
almost a grey tbh

I would prefer grey to beige

Jumente · 20/06/2009 17:49

good move

It's the best thing I did carpet wise...had numerous creamy beige ones, they are a bightmare with kids and food and dirt...but in the last house I got a mid-dark red and it was fantastic, and here I found a cheapo persian carpet for the main room - very well worn, but if you spill something it just lifts off as it's pure wool. There are stains of course as it's a bit of an antique but the funny thing is they don't show? I feel my carpet Karma God has found me at last and is smiling

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:49

I just spoke to DH and he said he definitely wants a different colour up in the loft room, and he defintely does not want beige. But he will consider the chocolate brown that we quite liked, which is dark and we said no dark, but is a neutral colour and is bold, clean coloured enough, and he would be ok with this in all the other rooms to be carpeted including the hallway. He also said he would not mind considering different textures in the hallway/bedrooms.

So, a compromise is close at least

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 17:50

nightmare sorry ds2 on lap!

alittlebitshy · 20/06/2009 17:50

we have blue ones in living room, and hall stairs and landing, and our room. all different though . The living room was already in ok condition and it just happened that we wanted blue in the other rooms. the dc have both got slighly differing shades of beige.

don;t ask about our spare room. was there when we moved in. v old mannish.

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:52

I feel so grown up! and also quite overwhelmed as we have so much to do, it all a bit much.

We have to chose the colour of the bedroom (loft), colour of the velux blinds (do we have patterned or plain, to match the carpet or the walls, or neither), we have to chose fixtures and fittings for the new bedroom (door handles, light fittings etc) and its all too much too fast!

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 17:54

Now this is something I am really puzzled about.

Laminate flooring.

I have boards now but in our old house, the downstairs was concrete (so had to be carpet) and upstairs had one room with carpet and one with laminate someone had put in before us.

We developed a moth problem and where did they like to hang out? in the laminate room!

I am not sure why. Maybe it was because it seemed to create dust, somehow? And moths love dust, to eat...but I can't understand why laminate got so dusty. They did eat a bit of the carpet in the other room but I found loads more of them in the laminate room where the boys played. Weirdy weirdy little buggers (not the children, the moths)

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:55

oh and then we have to do all the decorating. Before new baby arrives in November

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 17:56

I really really dislike laminate - dust collectors without a doubt. and not attractive.

Solid oak flooring. That is what I would like

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 17:57

Sorry Pav went off an a rant there, I m actually v at your choosing all these things. I think it's brill. Very exciting!

But ikwym about having to rush without being sure what you want - I find that really hard. I took it a room at a time here, and it's been less than a year and we are nearly finished - it gave me a chance to see how each bit worked out as we went along.

Stick to choosing floors, then walls - once those are in place you can basically leave the rest till you know what kind of light you get in a room, or maybe see a bargain that would do the job perfectly in terms of blinds, curtains etc.

I left the walls here because I couldn't afford it - a few months on I got huge tins of perfect colours for about a fiver each somewhere, so it was worth waiting.

Hope you're having fun!!

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 18:01

Jumente - we need to chose the fittings for the new bedroom soon - for the electrician and builder to fit for us. The rest of the place will stay as it is until we get around to it, but the hallway will be trashed as they are ripping out most of the ceiling next week to put in stairs.

I would normally do one room at a time, or bits of a room here and there as I get around to it. Our place has just evolved throughout the years and I am actually quite frightened of putting in new carpets as I have not ever done it before and its a lot of money and what if we get it wrong? its not like a lick of paint that can be easil changed. I have only ever done painting and changing of lightshades/rugs etc before!

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 18:01

...and maybe only get less dear things until you are sure - I mean temporary curtains etc really cheap, in case you can't find the sort you really want for a little while.

That way you don't lose too much!

Splashed out here on a slate floor in the dining room (which I had to fit!) as it was bare pebbledash before. In hindsight would have liked quarry tiles better but it is lovely.

Everything else was an ebay bargain or local carpet wholesalers etc.

MrKrabs · 20/06/2009 18:02

we had to put laminate in a bedroom in a hurry - long story nad OMG the amount of cat hair we find in there makes you realise how vile carpet is.
BUT it does mean less cleaning

Jumente · 20/06/2009 18:03

Oh I keep cross posting!!! It sounds amazing...you must put piccies up one day

Was it you whose bathroom caught fire? I know you have a nice kettle! do not out me!

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 18:04

So, how about then:

Sage type green for our new bedroom upstairs where no-one will ever see it does not match! with underlay.

Dark beige/brown hessian type hallways and stairs, with good quality underlay

dark beige/brown softer on foot carpet but same colour and shade as hallway for both other bedrooms with underlay.

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 18:04

Lighting superstore (online) often has fab fittings reduced, as in end of line etc. Worth a look especially if you don't need loads the same as often they just have an odd one.

MrKrabs · 20/06/2009 18:05

I think all one colour in house

Jumente · 20/06/2009 18:05

I would go with shades of brown. I do not like green, for some reason...eighties bathrooms, say no more! I think brown is good though

MrKrabs · 20/06/2009 18:06

dove grey?

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PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 20/06/2009 18:06

Jumente yes that was me! and that was not that long ago and I spent forever agonising over what to get for the new bathroom! I find it all so difficult. I am not an interior designer and I worry it will look naff.

Yes, I do have a nice kettle the whistle on it is fab!

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Jumente · 20/06/2009 18:08

Oh cool I never tried it so glad it sounds good!!

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