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its bad. the bedroom is okay but that rug would look so crummy after 1 year. especially in the entry.

my allergies are going crazy just thinking about it. Long live wooden floors...or at least anything other than carpet!

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Rug Burn."

Nice try, but I don't think wall-to-wall carpet is back. Nor do I think it's environmentally friendly either in its production or its disposal.

I've always been fascinated by the wall to wall carpeting in UK homes on BBC design shows. For such a reserved people, they have a love of some crazy carpeting!!!

I think if I lived somewhere that chilly and damp, I'd probably want toasty carpet too, but here in dry CA, I'll keep my wood floors, thanks!

I'm looking at the war torn carpet in my living room at the moment---2 kids and 2 adults and a couple of days of rain and seriously it's gross. I love the idea of an upstairs bedroom padded softly with carpet, but having it everywhere does seem to get dirty in the real world. I still love some of the things this house was trying to accomplish, mainly that carpet can be very different from what you might think of...

I do like the comfort of carpet underfoot. It's not as pretty as wood floors, but so much more comfy to walk or sit on. I've grown up with a completely carpeted home (minus kitchen/baths) and I've never had allergy problems. The carpet did get gross when we were kids, but we changed out the carpets when we got a bit older. When I'm crawling around on the floor with pets and young cousins it's nice to have carpet.

Most of those rooms are pretty cool. Obviously you are not meant to carpet everything, they're just making the product the focal point. The stripes on the wall are really cool. The red room is ugly though.

I enjoyed the post, with the exception of the moose head. I'm sorry, but people should know my aversion to this genre by now. That dressing table was wild!

I am currently stuck with almost white wall-to-wall carpet. It is soft and comfortable underfoot, and I do keep it clean, but it never really looks clean. Yuck! And when you look very close at it, it looks like it contains tiny soap bubbles in the carpet loops. I've never had the guts to ask the apartment managers why.

This, after living for 20 years with parquet wooden floors from the 20s!

Also, my parents were early freaks for wooden floors. My father just liked the aesthetic. Thanks, Dad.

Wall to wall carpet is DISGUSTING. End of discussion.

Sunspot42, I guess you never lived in a place with cold weather and where your house has a vacuum cleaner.

I'd have full on carpet over wood floors any day...but I'm a tile convert after so many years out here. Now I just don't like any excess soft furnishings - curtains, rugs, cushions.

It is literally impossible to clean carpet adequately. Impossible.

I get the comfort factor but wall-to-wall seriously needs to go away. Forever.

I don't think it's back. At all. We have carpet in most rooms in our house. It was here when we moved in, 3 years ago. We have two kids, and although we treat our carpet nicely, it's looking pretty worn down already. It's dingy and in the rooms we spend a lot of time it looks especially crappy.

I hope our next home has hardwood floors.

that loveseat with the peachy-orange pillows looks like it's covered in the same sheepskin covers they used to use for cars....how nice to curl up and take a nap there!?

and i like the colors they chose for the pinwheel effect in the bedroom -- reminds me of an almay eye shadow palette i used to have.

NO! You will never convince me this is better than wood floors!

I agree it is impossible to clean carpet thoroughly. We replaced the carpeting on the first level of our house after living here for about 3 years. It was GROSS how much dirt and dog hair was under the carpet and even under the pad. We literally had to vacuum up piles of dirt in the areas by the exterior doors.

ugh!!! I live in a cold climate, and would take wood floors any day over filthy carpet. Slippers and a roomba work very well together.

Area rugs have such a huge advantage over wall-to-wall. In the winter you can use large area rugs, and then when the weather gets warm in the spring take up all the rugs and go with bare floors for the summer. The weekend when you put down or take up the rugs is a nice, feel-good change-of-seasons ritual to transition to the new season.

When we bought our house we pulled up the 3-year-old carpeting of the previous owners and saw what was underneath it. After that, I'd never put in w-2-w.

I live in the UK (northern england no less) and let me tell you the cold damp weather is no excuse for the grossness of carpets... I'm currently renting somewhere with wall-to-wall carpet and it's disgusting stuff, impossible to get thoroughly clean (I'm by no means a clean freak, but this is horrible). My parents have had that experience in their own home and have now switched to wooden floors thankfully-you can still get a rug that covers most of the room for toasty feet, yet can be moved for proper cleaning. I'm going to specifically choose a house with wooden floors for my next rental-it's one of the top things on my list!

And the house in this particular post is horribly decorated too :o(

Arabella, I live in a cold climate and I have a vaccuum cleaner. I also have asthma....and the year we took out our carpet and replaced it with hardwood was the first year ever that I didn't have a single asthma attack all winter. Coincidence? Hardly. I've not had a winter attack since. NOw, I suppose I could double up on my steroid inhalers in order to live with carpet, but why on earth would I make myself sick and force myself to use steroids just for the sake of a product that's never environmentally friendly to begin with?

You just can't get carpets clean. They harbour dust mites (whose feces are a major source of allergens) and they get grungy way too quickly. I could, of cour

sunspot42,

Yes, agree. Hideous and we know that entire universes live in carpets. And if you live in a cold and damp climate, which I have in the past, the carpets just add to the dampness. Best bet against cold and damp is good insulation and warm clothes. But to carpet a house at the sacrifice of hygiene and visual aesthetics no.

Carpet or not, the house is pretty fug.

Don't believe a carpet sales rep when they say carpet is back