carpet or hard wood?

[nageov3t]

what's your flooring preference?

 

[HappyPuppy]

I'll take carpet any day. Wood/laminate floors are just another fad, just like crown molding in a ticky tacky tract house.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Tile.

 

[MiniDoom]

wood with a rug on top.

 

[moshquerade]

hard wood all the way

 

[coldmeat]

Depends on what room I guess. Bedrooms should always have carpet, no exceptions. Living rooms look better with dark hard wood, no golden wood, but feel way better with carpet.

I was at a house once that had carpet in the bathroom. Was kind of weird but was really cool at the same time. Made it feel a lot warmer.

 

[mizzou]

I like to rip up the carpet and just totally expose my hard wood

sometimes, when I'm at a friends house, I just start exposing hard-wood randomly at sections at their house, they are like WTF but then when they see how nice it is and what they could be having they are all like oooh!!

 

[moshquerade]

I'll take carpet any day. Wood/laminate floors are just another fad, just like crown molding in a ticky tacky tract house.

hard wood is hardly a fad. so much cleaner than carpet. you don't want to know what lives in carpet even if you think it's clean.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Hardwood is cold and gay. Carpets all the way.

 

[vi edit]

I'll take carpet any day. Wood/laminate floors are just another fad, just like crown molding in a ticky tacky tract house.

LOL. Carpet was a fad in it's own right. Everyone had hardwood and then carpet came along and you were low class if you had hardwood. That's why you see so many houses with hardwood floors under the carpet. They just threw the carpet over there to keep up with the joneses.

 

[paulney]

Not even a contest. Carpets full of dust you can never extract or nice, warm, plank-to-plank solid hardwood? Hardwood all the way.

 

[compbuilder00]

Carpet ... always better in the winter and a tad more comfortable IMO !

 

[xSauronx]

wood with a rug on top.

this.

 

[olds]

Wood looks better but I'd choose carpet. Wood scratches and shows dust too quickly.

 

[Rage187]

I used to sand and refinish hardwood floors for a living which usually required taking out the old carpet. Carpet is nothing but a big sponge, absolutely nasty. My house, African cherry floors.

The only place you should not put hardwood floors is the kitchen and bathroom. It gets mighty expensive to have floors ripped out or re-sanded if they bow up.


Cool story. We installed hardwoods in big southern homes on the beach. If you were stupid rich you could use reclaimed wood from old buildings. We were installing some wood from an old 1800s school house and I was using a chop saw when something hit me upside the head. I looked down and saw half a musket ball stuck in the board. The other half left a welt. I bet that soldier was laughing in his grave that he hit someone 200+ years later.

 

[moshquerade]

Carpet ... always better in the winter and a tad more comfortable IMO !

radiant floor heating ftw, and you can always put down a nice area rug on hardwood.

 

[herm0016]

I'll take carpet any day. Wood/laminate floors are just another fad, just like crown molding in a ticky tacky tract house.

you mean the wood floors put in homes for the last 200 years are a fad?
crown molding goes back to the days of plaster and lath too.

 

[Crono]

Hardwood with some carpeting or rugs where desired.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I used to sand and refinish hardwood floors for a living which usually required taking out the old carpet. Carpet is nothing but a big sponge, absolutely nasty. My house, African cherry floors.

The only place you should not put hardwood floors is the kitchen and bathroom. It gets mighty expensive to have floors ripped out or re-sanded if they bow up.


Cool story. We installed hardwoods in big southern homes on the beach. If you were stupid rich you could use reclaimed wood from old buildings. We were installing some wood from an old 1800s school house and I was using a chop saw when something hit me upside the head. I looked down and saw half a musket ball stuck in the board. The other half left a welt. I bet that soldier was laughing in his grave that he hit someone 200+ years later.

Yo, dawg, chop saws are for cutting metal and miter saws are for cutting wood. At least get your story right.

 

[Wyndru]

I guess it depends on the room.

Overall, I made another vote for hardwood. Easier to keep clean and looks nicer IMO. My real estate agent suggested that we pull up the carpet in our current house so it would raise the value. We got a few grand more for 2 days work, and the cost of the sanders, stain and urethane. Luckily the hardwood under the carpet was in decent condition to do that.

The kid's playroom and bedroom are carpeted for sound absorption, and padding for when they fall down.

 

[Rage187]

Yo, dawg, chop saws are for cutting metal and miter saws are for cutting wood. At least get your story right.

It's a chop saw, no one calls them miter saws. Dawg...


The only time anyone said miter is when pussies used a miter box for cutting shoe molding. Real men use a paint can.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Hardwood floors with oriental rugs, a timeless combination.

 

[Aharami]

LOL. Carpet was a fad in it's own right. Everyone had hardwood and then carpet came along and you were low class if you had hardwood. That's why you see so many houses with hardwood floors under the carpet. They just threw the carpet over there to keep up with the joneses.

hah yea. My in-laws ripped up their carpet in their living room to expose beautiful hardwood underneath. $800 worth of professional sanding and finishing later, their living room looks 5x better than before.

I don't like hardwood in bedrooms though. Even with an area rug, it makes it look too cold. I'm finishing up the basement now to make it into a media room and I'm debating hardwood vs carpet down there. Wife thinks a thin durable carpet like berber might be better than hardwood. And I'm not sure how the acoustics will be with hardwood causing more echoes (for my sound system)

I have engineered hardwood throughout my first floor.

 

[0roo0roo]

hard wood+rug

 

[Capt Caveman]

I'll take carpet any day. Wood/laminate floors are just another fad, just like crown molding in a ticky tacky tract house.

Fad? Before there was carpet, floors were hardwood.