Does ANYONE have a hall / stair carpet they like?????

[KristinaM]

We need to replace ours - stairs & floor are concrete so wood paint etc not an option. Have been looking for ages and choices seem to be :

plain light colour eg cream - looks beautiful but gets impossibly dirty so impratical for bad housewife with 3 kids

plain dark colour eg dark red - looks beautiful but shows all the fluff and dirt therefore totally impractical etc etc

patterned carpet - looks like your granny's house

There must be something else??????

i like the cream with dark bits in, stops it looking to dirty, was very expensive though

In our old place we had a fantastic (and relatively cheap) creamy/beige cord type carpet, which had flecks of browny colours in it. It looked good, was very hard wearing and because of the flecks didn't show the dirt badly at all (very important with 2 kids, and 2 cats.)

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another vote for oatmeal/porridge-coloured ie creamish with darker flecks

but ours is plain and about the colour of a Malted Milk biscuit (she says, having just dropped one and being unable to find it) and doesn't show dirt or fluff too badly.

ours is darkish blue with pale blue speckles and its camflauged the dirty carpet really well

here is my carpet on the stairs

thats interesting biglips. I woudl have thought that dark blue would be murder to clean

can you tell i am a really REALLY bad housewife??

Brintons carpets are fab!
very expensive though unless you can get to the factory shop who sell ends etc at reduced price.

some thing loke this is great
carpets

Do you have one like that trace? Its hard to imagine what it looks like from the sample

that's just what I meant by Porridge trace!

Ok another question - that carpet is tufted - can it be laid either way? Otherwise its not wide enough

no i got a diffrent one, but that was my first choice and my d sister got it! wish i had too it looks great down, and very hard wearing,

yes the fitters sort it out

would probably look like this from a distance.

yes its does but close up you can see the flecks

that looks good. very neutral. wont date

this carpet needs to last as we probably wont be able to afford to replace it for YONKS. its being replaced thsi time under the house insurance so "money is no object"

oh I've always wanted to say that

badger - is that your stairs?

nope, miscellaneous Google images pic, but our colour isn't far off that, just a bit more golden.

I have granny's carpet (chosen by me ) and it's horrible - it's a lovely design with lightish colours but looks rubbish on the stairs and shows all the dirt.

CoV's type sounds good - ours is 100% wool pile and after 12 years it's just flat (mind you it doesn't get any tlc), cord should look much better.

I love mine, however it is totally unique it is stripy, with every colour under the sun, therefore doesn't show the dirt badly at all, and that's wih a moulting dog You can get stripy carpets from some people, but I'm afraid mine was a sample, so not in production. However here has some fab stripy runners, don't know if they would do, but you get my drift. There are stripy ones around and it can be subtle (mine is not!!)

crunchie - how did you get a sample carpet??? [nosey emoticon]

I used to work for a Home Interest magazine, and knew all the MD's of the carpet companies. I fluttered my eyelashes and said that I loved stripy carpets and voila I got offered one. It was when a company were testing their looms, and they used all the scraps of wool, hence it has red, yellow, blue, brown, green, rust, etc etc

It is fab, but like I say cannot get it anywhere!

You know, you'd think that they would have put it into production. Sounds ideal for families with kids - ice lolly colour blended with poo, mud , curry, vomit, felt tip pen etc

really like the striped runners, but what woudl I do about the landings? Top landing is very short and wide( as opposed to long and narrow)

seems like the consensus is for oatmeal with dark brown flecks?