The decision may seem daunting when you try to decide what s best for a bedroom in the long run.
Upstairs carpet or wood.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
This will distract from the wood s not matching exactly and will make your stairs safer.
Add area rugs especially in the bedrooms if allergies aren t a problem in your family.
Do the stairs in wood as well and put down a carpet runner leaving a little of the wood showing at the sides.
The upstairs landing should be hardwood with carpet in the bedrooms.
The cost to install laminate flooring averages 2 750 compared to hardwood s average of 4 400 and carpet s average of 1 600.
Installed with a deep or memory foam pad downstairs inhabitants will barely know that someone is walking around above them.
I might carpet a bedroom when i m doing a house for rental and want to make it easy to replace the flooring between tenants or when i need a quick cheap update because i can get carpet for a fraction of the price of wood.
Other flooring trends in hardwood include wider planks the use of reclaimed wood or hand scraped wood that looks antique and exotic species of hardwood such as hickory or walnut.
While wood flooring on your stairs can provide a sleek and modern feel to your home they can also be dangerous.
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Wood flooring for stairs safety.
Carpet is great at blunting or even completely eliminating the sound of people walking on wooden stairs.
Basement should be a nice berber carpet with ceramic tile landing at the back door.
Carpet vs hardwood upstairs.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Consider that you ve got both padding and carpet working for the cause and you ll realize that bare wooden stairs can in no way match the quiet that carpet offers.
Hardwood flooring or carpeting.
As an ideal flooring for upstairs rooms it absorbs and deadens sound.
This is our stairs before.
Laminate is more diy friendly and moisture resistant than both wood and carpet.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
Need to find a pro for your flooring carpet installation.
Wood stairs can be slippery and there s not much cushion if a fall were to happen.
Comments 6 hardwood if at all possible.
Preferred hardwood is 31 2 4 oak stained.
One thing it doesn t fix though.