Wooden floor for upstairs landing, carpet on stairs

Crazy_Diamond

We are currently redecorating and I would like wooden floors in the bedrooms to help with allergies and tie in with the downstairs which is also wood. Ideally I would like the landing to also be wood as I think it looks better than having joins at each door.

I am a bit unsure about what to do with the stairs though and for safety and noise think a carpet or at least a runner would look best.

If we do go for this option how do you tie in the top of the carpet with the wood on the landing? The problem is that we would be installing sold wood floors on top of chipboard so presumably would need to hide the join under the stair carpet so how would we end the stair carpet without it becoming a trip hazard?

Any ideas?

Jaynne

I would probably think of a runner which would terminate below the lip of the landing. For the facing of the landing there are facing pieces for this purpose that are I think glued one.

We looked into getting our carpet going down the stairs but ended up sticking with wood and haven't regretted it but we don't have anyone clattering up and down the stairs at night to cause a noise issue but to be honest I don't think it would be a big issue - its not much noisier than carpet and someone running up is going to make noise regardless.

Crazy_Diamond

Thanks for your reply. We do want some sort of carpet as I would be worried about our toddler slipping on the stairs.

The facing pieces sounds ideal. Do you happen to know where stocks them? I tried the place that is supplying the wood floor and they were not aware of them.