Carpet Or Wood Flooring Upstairs

Hardwood flooring or carpeting.

Carpet or wood flooring upstairs.

This will distract from the wood s not matching exactly and will make your stairs safer. Do the stairs in wood as well and put down a carpet runner leaving a little of the wood showing at the sides. Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this. Each type of flooring has its.

Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting. All are the. Cleaning wood vs cleaning carpet. Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway.

The decision may seem daunting when you try to decide what s best for a bedroom in the long run. I am curious to hear the pros and cons on putting hardwood floors at the stairs and upstairs hallway. Hardwood stairs are easy to clean and maintain with a broom and a mop. The best ideas for upstairs floors.

Carpeting on stairs is automatically going to accumulate more dust and dirt than hardwood. Hardwood is a good because high traffic throughways would benefit from a durable low maintenance flooring. I saw model homes this weekend in irvine ca at the pavilion park part of the great park and many models had stairs and the upstairs hallway with carpet and wood floors in each of the individual rooms. Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some.

Carpeted stairs require regular vacuuming and an occasional cleaning to keep them in top shape. Having carpet on the stairs doesn t necessarily prevent falls but it helps to provide traction compared to hardwood. In addition should a fall ever occur carpet offers a much softer landing spot than wood flooring which could help reduce the likelihood of injury. Wood is louder than carpet.

Footsteps overhead in the middle of the night the bass beat of rock music echoing through the upper walls and ceiling and sneezing children. Hallways and stairs benefit from either option.