"Less expensive than other flooring materials like wood and linoleum, it took off with the midcentury building boom. And while it’s fallen in and out of fashion — color-blocked 1970s interiors and McMansions both favored this type of flooring — it’s never really left...."
From "Wall-to-Wall Carpeting’s Very Good Year" (NY Magazine).
"But, as we’ve seen this year, if you want to make a space stand out with a single move, vibrant wall-to-wall carpeting is one way to do it. And it is possible to do it extremely well. Case in point: designer Mark Grattan’s Mexico City apartment and its seafoam-green living-room carpet, which was on the cover of Elle Decor last year. Or the Coming Soon founders’ bungalow in the Rockaways, covered in a custom installation of Cold Picnic’s patterned rug...."
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There's a reasons for cliches...especially the classic Everything old is new again.
Scrolling down into that photo, I'm thinking, "hey, that's MY house!" and then the furnishings and carpet come into view. Oog. No.
At some point in my life I just started wondering if you can ever get wall-to-wall carpeting really clean. The ads for Glory rug cleaner: 1. Vacuum. 2. Spray foam, push in with a wet mop, allow to dry. 3. Vacuum again. What? So the top quarter inch or so is nice and clean, but haven't you pushed a bunch of dirt down toward the bottom? Isn't there going to be an ecosystem down there?
Remember Shag rugs and carpeting?
Just converted our last carpeted room this spring and couldn’t be happier with the result. Even the most diligently cleaned and cared for carpet is hideously unhygienic, even in an era where no one wears shoes inside anymore.
But, yes, never understood the attraction of the “gray-planked”. Maple has a multitude of great shades.
Ugly.
Uhg.
Not a single fiber of carpet on the entire main floor of our house. All wood. Hardwood.
Ripped it out years ago. Much easier to keep clean now. Never going back.
Hideously ugly and aggressive.
Everything comes around. Someday people will walk into a house and think, "Ugh- granite and stainless steel - that's so 2000s."
IMO, the best look is hardwood floors (the real stuff), white walls, and hardwood or knotty pine cathedral ceilings. Red oak floors stained dark and natural black cherry ceiling is my favorite. One could add a circular braided rug to the floor.
Back in '77, I funded a summer of scuba diving, back packing, body surfing, rock climbing and spelunking the Manson caves by installing shag carpets in mid century modern Eichler knockoffs in the Valley. Living the Paul Thomas Anderson dream, wearing OP shirts, short shorts, knee high tube socks and converse all stars.
I've recently torn out two rooms of wall to wall carpet and replaced with vinyl plank flooring. Waterproof vinyl plank flooring. If I ever get to building a house- there will be no carpet at all. Laminate flooring is much more sanitary- especially as time goes on.
When I first moved in I ripped up the carpet in the bathrooms. Never, ever, no matter how nice you think it looks, ever install carpet in a bathroom.
I am back in style! Felt like the lone wall-to-wall carpet hold out. And it didn't save any money, contrary to the claim in this article. Greatly prefer walking around on carpet.
That carpeting ruins the entire vibe of that space. it looks horrible.
Howard! Effing POETRY!
To be fair, hard to imagine ANY space where that carpet would work.
"Jim at said...
Not a single fiber of carpet on the entire main floor of our house. All wood. Hardwood.
Ripped it out years ago. Much easier to keep clean now. Never going back."
Not if you have a pet. I have hardwood floors throughout my house and it's a pain. Much easier to vacuum up the hair from carpet. On the other hand, cat puke on carpet sucks.
Mexican tile looks best in AZ or CA homes. Then some pretty rugs.
I had shag carpet in the 70s. I think we lost a hamster in it. I can't remember if we ever found it.
Hideous carpet! (All that wood isn't so appealing, either.)
Everything in that room except for the beams and wooden cathedral ceiling is a big NO.
Don't install gray-planked floors. Use natural wood colors and natural wood.
Unfortunately, ugliness is celebrated these days.
It's quirky...it's cool.
No, it's just ugly.
There are good points about carpet. It makes the floor warmer. It is cheap and looks good. It is pretty easy to install, and hides minor imperfections very well. But with the advent of good, easy to install laminated wood floors it becomes second best for inexpensive floor covering. That is why it has fallen out of favor. My home had carpet in every room except the kitchen and bathrooms when we bought it. Now, the only carpet we have left is in the office and our bedroom, and I plan to replace both those this year. Easier to keep clean, less dust in the air, and it just looks better.
When will china closets make a comeback??
That rug really tied the room together.. I Don't Know, about the carpet
Eww ick, everyone under 60 hates carpeting now. So get some hard surface installed and cover it with...carpets to trip over.
Genius!
I'll stick with wall to wall for the time being.
Perfect for New Years Eve parties! People drink too much, they throw-up and no-one can find the mess! At least until the day after.
I wouldn't pair that busy rug with that busy wood grain. The room just looks frantic and unsettling.
I hate carpeting- literally hate it.
Not if you have a pet. I have hardwood floors throughout my house and it's a pain. Much easier to vacuum up the hair from carpet. On the other hand, cat puke on carpet sucks.
We have a cat. He's not shy about where and when something needs to come back up. Mop the oak floor and done. Before, we had to use a circular power scrubber on the carpet.
The needles from the numerous conifers surrounding our house were much worse than anything the cat could do on the carpet.
I grew up in a house with orange shag carpeting throughout. My wife and I have moved a lot and favored houses with wood floors. But when we moved to northern Wisconsin a few years ago, we fell in love with and bought a house with lots of carpeting. We planned on having it replaced with wood, but you know carpeting is nice during the cold long winters here. So far the carpet remains.
Knotty pine!
No. Just...no.
Very 60's vibe to my eye. I am very much in favor of hard floors which don't get filled with dust and crumbs or mildey and smelly but my husband craves carpet. So far I prevail though the bedroom tile is covered with multiple carpets.
Hard, slick floors are tough on pets. We are in an apartment with laminate flooring. Poor cat slips and slides around when he's got the zoomies. I hear its worse for large dogs.
Yay! I've always loved carpeting and never really like hardwood. I feel like the latter is giving up our well earned human progress toward more comfort.
Ugly as sin.
I hope wood paneling on vehicles never comes back in style.
My mother had a 74 Pinto, and it was green with wood paneling. Ewww!
Knotty pine!
I always thought naughty pine was a penis joke. Who knew??
Hardwood floors and nice rugs. Best of both worlds.
Rehajm, 80% of the ceilings and walls of my house looks like that, except for the knots. Here, it's fir t&g, stained and old, hard as a rock. Most people mistake it for redwood at first. Under our carpets is 65 year old 5/8 inch thick oak flooring. Lovely stuff, but cold and (with the wood walls and ceilings) incredibly noisy. In this house, carpets are chosen to match the fur of the currently dominant dog. The pictured flooring would not match any dog breed I am familiar with.
Translation:
We've sold all of the last trend's crap possible.
Time for a new trend.
That is re-cycle an old trend.
With a new twist if necessary.
Rinse/repeat.
It took me a few minutes to figure out why I hated that room -- the lighting. It is lit like a Walmart -- to reveal each and every detail of the room and everything in it. It was not lit the way a rational reasonable homeowner would.
Even a dentist's office is more relaxing than this room.
"It was not lit the way a rational reasonable homeowner would."
We see many light fixtures and they're not on. It would be interesting to photograph the place without the photographer's lights, with the actual decorative lights on. Maybe it would make sense.
Every time I hear Paul simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes," I think--that would be hell on hardwood flooring.
My house is built on a slab with areas of carpet, hardwood, and stone tiles on the first floor. Because of the different flooring materials, the base under each area was poured at different height. So, if we wanted to replace the 18x18 or so square of carpeting in the "living room" (open concept, dontcha know) with hardwood, which we do, we'd have to relevel the subfloor. One flooring guy actually recommended that we put in a different hardwood where the carpet actually is, to contrast with the hardwood that already surrounds that patch of carpet, and use half-round molding for the transition in the middle of an otherwise featureless floor. Our eyes bugged out as we simultaneously thought, "Tripping hazard!!"
This is not the house we'll live in forever, so we have chosen just to upgrade and update the carpet.
The stone that covers the entry is slate and I hate how dark it is, but eh.
We just ripped up our carpet and replaced it with sheet vinyl. Granted, the carpet was old and severely pet-impacted, but that was some nasty-looking subflooring. We went with a retro design, which wasn't easy. Everything is that gray faux wood look.
Are wooden floors or fake wooden floors really gray? Either the writer has a very limited color palate, or one of us is color blind, or I don't get invited out much.
And what of the "planking" sensation of the last decade? If all it meant was lying on the ground inertly like a corpse, then it was one exercise fad I could really have gotten into.
Here in AZ it's hard floors (tile or wood) everywhere. Too much dust. Plus, as someone mentioned, when the cats do something it's way easier to clean up. We have rugs, and half the time they seek those out to do something on.
However, I, perhaps like many men, have a weird fondness for vacuum cleaners.
That couch looks too soft to be a good napping couch. Which is what you want in a family room.
Wall-to-wall is foul. Once you know what's under there in that rotting, dander-filled mildewy rug pad, you can't unsee it. Hard floors with large area rugs on pads you can take up and clean or replace are a good compromise between hygiene and comfort.
who cares about the look
carpet is comfy
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