Carpet poll

[bittybomb]

We only have a carpet runner on our stairs. Everything else is hardwoods and we have an area rug in every room. I feel like it's much easier to clean/keep clean.

[divanerd]

We have in our bedrooms only and family room. everywhere else downstairs and upstairs is hardwoods we live in Georgia

[aspentosh]

Our entire first floor is hardwood. The stairs leading to the second floor, and all of upstairs is carpet. I would love if our stairs and second floor hallway were hardwood at least, because I don't mind carpet in the bedroom. But I also love hardwoods with rugs, so I wouldn't hate hardwood in our bedrooms.

Basement and basement stairs are carpet and that will forever be the way they are. Too cold for anything else.

[texasharleygirl]

We have carpet in the bedrooms and up the stairs to the eventual game room/tv room. (that will be carpeted once completed). Everywhere else is LVP.

[sillygoosegirl]

I said nowhere, but it occasionally nice to have a softer space for exercise or when my kid was a toddler, a padded space to play was nice. I'm not particular about what room, but I don't have regrets about still having carpet in one room. (We've removed it in most of the house, but as a practical matter is wasn't convenient to get it removed everywhere at once.)

My kid likes having carpet in her room for some reason. So we added one there.

[froggyfarts2point0]

I might feel differently if we had small children that were constantly playing on the ground, but we prefer luxury vinyl flooring at this stage in our life. We have older kids (10+) and a horde of pets, and live in a wetter climate, so we aim for some type of hard, waterproof flooring and use area rugs to give an easier to clean region that is cozy on the toes. 

Our first three years in our house with carpeted bedrooms/great room were a nightmare for spot cleaning thoroughly when spills or various bodily fluid messes happened. Area rugs are so much easier to keep clean for our lifestyle. 

[scm1011]

We have hardwoods throughout, except tile in the bathrooms. I could maybe get behind carpet in the bedrooms.

Honestly carpets in a house without a strict shoes off policy is 🤢 to me.

[bhnumbers]

this was an Issue when we were renovating our house. DH wanted wall-to-wall in the bedrooms and it was his hill to die on. I wanted hardwood, but it was NOT my hill to die on, haha (mine was having radiant heat in the bathroom floor!)

Anyway, so while I'd prefer just having a runner on the stairs and area rugs with hardwood everywhere else, we have carpeted bedrooms. We do have hardwood in the hallway upstairs and throughout the main floor. Our basement is carpeted and I like that. We're not in a flood prone area and the basement is so cold that the carpet is more cozy down there.

[lilac05]

In pictures, I love hardwood floors. However, for actually living in a house, I generally prefer carpet in bedrooms, family room, stairs, and basement. It’s warmer and nicer to walk on. We also love sitting or laying on the floor, so I always get really good padding.

That said, we don’t have any pets. We also don’t allow food in any rooms with carpet (except when we’re doing pizza & a movie). Sometimes my H and I will eat on the couch for lunch, but never the kids. I also invested in a really good vacuum.

[hbomdiggity]

We have hardwoods on the main level and stairs to 2nd. Otherwise upstairs landing, bedrooms, stairs to basement and basement are carpet. I was skeptical at first but it’s mostly been good.

We did remove carpet for hardwoods in my office/gym upstairs. There is a spare bedroom next to it that is now DH office that I think we should do hardwoods as well. But I actually don’t want to do hardwoods throughout the upstairs. The primary and DS bedrooms are over living spaces and I think noise would be an issue, more than an area rug could address.

Also, the hardwoods we have are just engineered hardwoods. I see no reason to replace carpet with another flooring that will eventually need to be replaced.

[icedcoffee]

Bedrooms and basement. Although now that I know I’m allergic to dust mites I might consider hardwoods in the bedroom.

Our basement would sooo cold without carpets. Hardwoods would be nice for cleaning reasons but brrrrrr.

ETA: we are a shoes off household so shoes are pretty much never in the bedroom.

If we have parties, contractors or deliveries the basement sometimes gets shoes. It’s pretty much always beyond our control though. They stay relatively clean.

[jamaicam]

We have tile downstairs and LVP upstairs. If we ever replace, we coud do tile upstairs too!

However we have no desire to feel any warmer, cool is the feel we are going for. Also we have all our windows open all the time, so tile is the easiest to clean.

[sb]

This might be #regional because I have no desire for my floors to make me warmer. Cool feet please. Hardwood everywhere except bathrooms, tile in bathrooms (although in one of our previous homes we had hardwood in a bathroom and it was gorgeous).

Maybe I suck at cleaning, but any time I clean something off carpet I just imagine the grossness sinking and being pushed down into the pad. I feel like I can never actually get them fully clean. At least with area rugs I can see the other side and clean it, or if it's something supremely gross and uncleanable just replace the rug.

[twilightmv]

Nowhere. I can always add an area rug.

[libbygrl109]

I prefer hardwood throughout. I have a very furry dog, so I would hate to keep vacuuming that out of carpet all of the time. The only place we have a rug is in the living room, the only room in the house where we feel it’s needed for us.