Will I regret a light carpet?

Just about to re-carpet most of the house. Need polypropylene as the old wool carpet has carpet moths. I’m looking at either light cream or a very light grey but wondered if anyone has regretted a light carpet.

the polypropylene ones are supposed to be bleach cleanable and stain resistant. I do also have a vax carpet cleaner.

We’ve got A light carpet in A bedroom.  It was fine until the dog. Something about the oils in his hair seems to mark it I think.  It’s a low traffic room.

No way on this earth I’d do cream downstairs.

Grey might be ok but not very light.  Grey does go with anything.

There’s something about the OP’s username tells me it might be ill advised…

Don’t do it. My parents had a beige carpet and it was forever needing professionally cleaned.

Just to add, we don’t wear shoes in the house

Are you a shoes-off and tidy household? If so you may be OK with it.

We’re 100% not and would wreck it within weeks! 🙂

Are you a shoes-off and tidy household? If so you may be OK with it.

We’re 100% not and would wreck it within weeks!

This – I have a very light carpet in the bedrooms, I wouldn’t entertain it downstairs though.

Shoes off, but not tidy and kids sometimes drop food on the carpet when eating in front of the tv. But if  it’s bleach cleanable….

My family home had light beige wool carpets throughout, it was in for 40 years. The carpet remained unscathed.

Muddy footprints got brushed off when dry but it was a shoes off house most of the time. There was a cat for a bit

I don’t know if it was lucky but it did last and looked clean.

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Just yesterday, my wife was chatting to a fellow carer at her dad’s alzheimer club. The lady was explaining how she’d just had a white carpet fitted to match the white walls and paintwork (we both shuddered in bland horror), in her hallway. Then her daughter came to visit at Christmas and promptly dropped a hot chocolate that went everywhere. The lady was quite upset about the situation.

Oh, how we laughed.

What you could do is get a light coloured carpet and then cover it with one of those heavy plastic carpet saving runners that my mum had in the hallway back in the 70s?

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We have a sandy coloured carpet downstairs (not in the hallway), and also on the stairs and landing.

It’s been OK. Wife has some disability issues and is also prone to not thinking things through but a steam cleaner and spot carpet cleaner get the spills out. Usually coffee.

I thought carpets were only available in grey these days?

Anyway, doing “most of the house” in cream sounds insane to me. Why do you even want to?

Do you have a cat?  Our previous cat used to bring in squirrels and disembowel them on the carpet, even though its a dark carpet, we’re still trying to get the blood stains out………………..

We’ve got medium sort of biege carpets. It’s not so much the colour but the fact they are completely uniform that means you can see marks. Something with a bit of mottling or fleck in it shows less marks.

There is a reason why pub carpets and bus/train seats have those patterns. It hides marks.

Do you have a daughter?

Despite the manufacturer’s claims of easy clean, make up isn’t coming out of it.

We won’t be getting a light carpet again.

We’ve got oaty coloured carpets on the stairs and upstairs apart from bathrooms.  They were in when we moved and need replacing really by now, but we’ve kept children in the house for the past 6 years, and there’s still some heavy wear and stains to come. Poo on the carpet twice this week, joy!

The carpets have a pronounced loop, so there’s heavy texture, and quite a lot of colour variation, darker lighter flecks, some browns and reds.  Hides a multitude of sins!

I thought carpets were only available in grey these days?

Anyway, doing “most of the house” in cream sounds insane to me. Why do you even want to?

There isn’t much natural light in the house, so wanted something light so it doesn’t look gloomy

We’re a shoes on house. Light carpets everywhere. Even in the bathroom. 80/20 wool and they’re fine.

We have light carpets apart from the pile going down a bit they’ve been in 18 months and are fine. We’re a shoes off house, but have a dog with muddy paws. Hall and kitchen are LVT, everywhere else apart from the bog is carpeted.

Shoes on, messy house here with two dogs who shed. Light carpet with a pattern in living room, all okish. Chocolate solid colour carpet in dining room, big mistake. A little pattern helps a lot!

Don’t do it. We did about 5 years ago and the carpets already looks terrible and need replacing, even though we have had them professional cleaned a number of times. Doesn’t help when the fitters arrive and they say “Wow your brave fitting cream carpets when you have kids!”

We are a shoes off family with 2 cats so really shouldn’t be a problem. Get a darker colour with a flecks in. We are thinking of getting rid of all of it and going to oak flooring throughout and rugs

We’ve just taken out grey carpets on our stairs/landing/bedrooms and replaced with a beigey/creamy/lightbrowny 80/20 wool carpet with flecks in it. Light coloured to not suck the light in like grey does, flecks to hide the infrequent vacuuming. We’ll be doing the lounge at some point too.

We did the same throughout a previous house and it was fine.

We are part way through building a house, and now living in it as work continues. 2 small kids, so dirt and poo/wee/vomit on the floor are regular occurrences.

We had planned to carpet the bedrooms and upstairs hallway in something light and soft, but budget constraints resulted in us laying down 500×500 carpet tiles rescued from an office refurbishment.

We thought that this would be just a temporary fix, but having had them in place for nearly 2 months now they seem to be a great idea. Incredibly hard wearing, patterns hide the dirt, easy to cut and lay ourselves, any big stains or damage can be removed and the tile replaced. Most of the benefits of a hard floor, but with a little softness and warmth underfoot.

The tiles that we have thankfully don’t look too corporate.

We have a medium dark grey downstairs.

Let’s just say the carpet cleaner we bought a few years back was worth every penny.

The colour of the water that comes out is horrible.

Carpet comes up really good though

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https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk/

I wouldn’t. When we moved house we had a ‘shoes off’ policy. It lasted about three months. Today she brings kids home in prams and wheels them straight over the new rug that she absolutely had to have and cost me a **** fortune. The prams then get folded up and parked with the wheels resting on white walls so I’ll probably be buying paint next. I’m not wholly certain that this isn’t her intention all along.

What you could do is get a light coloured carpet and then cover it with one of those heavy plastic carpet saving runners that my mum had in the hallway back in the 70s?

Still in place at my mum’s.

we’re still trying to get the blood stains out

There’s a trick to this, lots of cold water. As soon as you introduce heat you’re screwed, you’ll never shift it.

As a kid I got a lot of nosebleeds and my gran used to send me to school with a real handkerchief. They always came out clean.

There is a reason why pub carpets and bus/train seats have those patterns. It hides marks.

Yup. I read an article about this a little while ago, might have been on IFLScience. TfL tested different fabric patterns to see which ones hid the most ming.

There isn’t much natural light in the house, so wanted something light so it doesn’t look gloomy

I had this at the old house. I hung a huge mirror diametrically opposite the window in the living room. It made a massive difference. YMMV.

We’ve had deep red for many years, and even that can get grubby. Shoes off, but people forget and bring in mud. We do have a cream rug that needs cleaning regular – fortunately, muck comes off with a cloth and carpet cleaner.  Carpet is getting old, but looks fine, but we are thinking of going laminate throughout.

Need polypropylene as the old wool carpet has carpet moths.

You can just treat your carpets to prevent/get rid of carpet moths. I bought a 5L spray Pest Expert Formula C+  and it got rid of them straight away. I just re treat the carpets about once a year

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