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| What are the pros & cons for each? The first floor will be all wood (save the mudroom, bathrooms, & master closet, which incl. laundry). The stairs will be wood (I may have a runner put in while the kids are young). The second floor will be a mix of carpet & tile in the bedrooms, bathrooms, & laundry room & possibly cork in the exercise room. I feel carpet will be the most practical in the loft area, but wood will look a lot nicer. Obviously carpet is the more affordable route at $26/yard vs. 4x's as much for wood. The loft will not really serve any function, except there will be a linen closet out there & a small little crafting area that I doubt will be used too often. No one will ever be sitting in that area or hanging out there. Thanks for any feedback! |
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| We had similar decision with our loft area & chosed to go hardwood...but carpet in the secondary upstairs bedrooms. Reasons being: 2) With kid(s) on the way, makes the bedrooms warmer & safer than wood 3) Ended up using wood ordered for 2 secondary bedrooms in loft area & still got carpet for the bedrooms without addl expense. Summary - carpet is good for us because of warmth & safety in non common areas. Hope that helps some in your decision making.
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| You could always put in wood and use area rugs, then you would have the best of both :) It may make it more quiet, however, if you put in carpet.....but if it will hardly be used; gosh, you wouldn't want me to make decisions for you, lol! |
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| I'd probably choose carpet. If all the other surfaces upstairs are carpet or tile, I wouldn't add another flooring. UNLESS, you see this space being a non-private space. But, it sounds like your second floor will be all/mostly private space. The other UNLESS would be, if the flooring was visible from the first floor--as in, it was an open loft with open railing, or... |
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| Same situation as you - all hardwood down including the master bedroom & stairs with tile in wet areas and carpet only in secondary bedrooms. We originally spec'd carpet for the upstairs loft mostly due to cost but we ended up having quite a bit of hardwood left over and decided to lay it instead. So glad we did - I like having carpet only in the kids' rooms and the loft looks so much better with the hardwood. Plus, this is where I intend to have the kids do their craft/school projects and it's so much easier to keep clean than carpet. |
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- Posted by wishiwasinoz (My Page) on Tue, Feb 12, 13 at 8:45
| Thanks friends! Parsonse, that's a great idea! Bet we will have enough left over to fill in the loft area. Twotogo - lol! I definitely have days like this! :-) Pbx2 - thanks! Kirkhall - the space isn't private, per we, but it's also not visible from the first floor. I will keep carpet there for now & see how much wood is left. |
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