In Praise of Carpet
Hardwood floors were at the top of my list when looking for a house. They aren?t hard to find in Des Moines, so it wasn?t a big ask. When we toured our home for the first time, there was only one room with carpet ? now Austin?s office, which the previous owners used as a […]
Hardwood floors were at the top of my list when looking for a house. They aren?t hard to find in Des Moines, so it wasn?t a big ask. When we toured our home for the first time, there was only one room with carpet ? now Austin?s office, which the previous owners used as a less formal dining room. The carpet was avocado green and loose. Pulling it up and refinishing the hardwoods beneath it was not a hard decision.
Our family room had linoleum ? we hoped to find hardwood floors under it and refinish them like we had in the office. But when we pulled the carpet up, the floor was a hodgepodge of composite sheets and subfloor planks. There wasn?t anything to refinish. Instead, we laid new subfloor and had to figure out what to do.
In the design community, wall-to-wall carpet can feel like a fail. It?s something you typically take out, not put in. The room already felt like a challenge with the wonky textured walls and strange layout, so I pushed back against the idea of carpet.
When I stopped thinking about the design rules and started thinking about what we wanted from the space, carpet started to feel like the best option. We already had a living room with hardwood floors. The family room was going ...
Hardwood floors were at the top of my list when looking for a house. They aren?t hard to find in Des Moines, so it wasn?t a big ask. When we toured our home for the first time, there was only one room with carpet ? now Austin?s office, which the previous owners used as a less formal dining room. The carpet was avocado green and loose. Pulling it up and refinishing the hardwoods beneath it was not a hard decision.
Our family room had linoleum ? we hoped to find hardwood floors under it and refinish them like we had in the office. But when we pulled the carpet up, the floor was a hodgepodge of composite sheets and subfloor planks. There wasn?t anything to refinish. Instead, we laid new subfloor and had to figure out what to do.
In the design community, wall-to-wall carpet can feel like a fail. It?s something you typically take out, not put in. The room already felt like a challenge with the wonky textured walls and strange layout, so I pushed back against the idea of carpet.
When I stopped thinking about the design rules and started thinking about what we wanted from the space, carpet started to feel like the best option. We already had a living room with hardwood floors. The family room was going ...
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