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Okay I'm not doing any flooring per say at the moment so this is just one of the random musings I was having *grins*
Now when a builder does a home I've only seen them do the carpet all one color and texture. When folks live there and replace they only tend to replace as a room is needed.
What astetically looks best? Do home buyers care if it's all different when buying? Do realtors have opinions on it? Do you go with like tones or just go with what you want? Do you try to match the plush?
Our current house is mostly wood floors but bedrooms are carpeted along with the hall that leads to them. It's a hodgepodge of carpets. DH hates it. But I think that's because we moved from a brand new house where it was all the same. In my house growing up we had a hodgepodge of carpet but it was mostly wood there to and few carpeted rooms touched so they didn't look odd there.
What do you think? Am I thinking it out to much haha. Don't answer that.
We would like to remove almost all carpet - but that's us.
What would your DH like to do?
When (in another former life) I sold vacuum cleaners - we used to till clients, "You buy carpet by the yard, and haul it out by the pound". Sand and other debris cuts the fibers, so slowly but surely, it gets removed.
I don't like carpet so I'm with Bubba, I'd rip it out and put in a hard surface of some sort. If I had to have carpet though I would prefer for it to match throughout the house. At my old house, the master bedroom had a different carpet than the rest of the house and that did bother me a little. But even though I would have preferred for it to match, it was a similar color and looked clean and relatively new so the mismatch didn't enter into the equation when I was deciding whether to buy the house or not. So in terms of resale value, I suspect a realtor would tell you it's better to have everything match, but the most important thing is going to be for the carpet to look fresh and clean and be a neutral color. I don't think mismatched carpets will deter too many buyers unless you have awful colors or the carpet is visibly dirty.
Thanks to both of you. I guess I wasn't clear---I meant to recarpet areas that you already have not change to new type of flooring. We have both wood and tile---Bubba I think every home in Houston has a tiled family room LOL it's not something I've seen anywhere else!?!?!?! I looked hard to find ours which was wood at least. Tile's just to hard and cold and much harder to mop for me. Mopping a wood floor is smooth and quick (no grout to get in the cracks of).
Anyhoo---DH likes wood floors throughout and I might agree IF we didn't have kids. For kids I prefer a soft surface for them to play and crawl on. Though in this house it's not even carpet in kids rooms! The only carpet is the living room (not in family room), the stairs, the hall, the MB and ONE kids room. 3 kids rooms are laminate wood. Which I wouldn't have invested in but it does clean nice. We just had to put down small area rugs.
Most the carpet is berber---but 2 kinds in similar shades *groan* and the one kids room is a plush. So it looks kinda off to me but the thought of clearing out all the areas at once to lay carpet is a bigger groan lol.
Just fielding my options should we stay here a few years instead of a couple like I'm hoping.
If you want to rip everything up and make it match because that's what you like then go for it, but strictly for resale as long as all the carpet is clean and new looking and in nice neutral colors I don't think it'll make the difference between someone buying the house or not if the carpet doesn't all match (unless of course you're in a newer subdivision and there are a lot of virtually identical houses that do have matching carpet, then maybe it would be a factor)
Personally I think it looks better if everything matches, but it's really a question of what you can live with. It sounds like it bothers you a bit, so if you can afford it then make them all match. It certainly won't hurt the appeal to potential buyers to have it all match, and new carpets in general are a plus if you put your house on the market.
It's depending on how long we plan to live here. A year or two more it won't bother me and I've already put a lot into the place...longer term I'll change it out :)
