Carpet colour for letting

jcuurthht

I've got 3 colours to choose from.

http://i.imgur.com/EsMvfus.jpg

- Grey
- Brown
[STRIKE]- Blue[/STRIKE]
- Beige (not shown)

Does anyone have any advice regarding carpet colour for a letting? Is brown too 80's? Is grey too cold? Is beige going to get stained easily?

lisa110rry

Yes, yes, yes.

(Sorry I'm being silly.)

Assuming the property is to be let unfurnished...

I wouldn't recommend beige unless it was coated with something like Scotchguard, but it is neutral. My last two rented properties (rented for working away from home on a weekly basis) both had beige/cream carpets. I was exceptionally careful with them.

Have you thought of laminate downstairs/in rooms of high traffic reserving beige/cream for bedrooms? I had one place like that and it reduced cleaning and spill worries.

Brown and grey are both a bit difficult to match with furnishings and will restrict the number of people who will want to rent your property.

fairy_lights

That's a horrible shade of brown, it looks almost red.
Most of the places I've rented have had an oatmealy/beigy/pale brownish colour carpet - it doesn't show dirt up too much and is neutral enough that it won't clash with anything.
As a rule of thumb, if you wouldn't want a colour of carpet in your own home, don't inflict it on a tenant.

jbainbridge

They all look horrible ... sorry.

chris_m

You should have seen the salesman's face when we were ordering carpet for our newly-extended living room;
Salesman - "and does madam have any particular colour in mind?"
Mum - "Yes, dirt coloured"
Dad, sister & me - "Snigger"


She went for oatmeal and it worked very well - but, crikey, had it faded after 15 years, as we found when we lifted the mat in front of the french windows when they moved out.

Pixie5740

What colours are the walls? Is it furnished or unfurnished?

The grey is the least offensive of the 3 pictured but a beige (neutral) colour might be better depending on the rest of the decor.

chris_m

jbainbridge wrote: »

They all look horrible ... sorry.

To be fair, it is rather difficult to judge when confronted by samples viewed at (roughly) twice or even thrice full size - all of them will probably look very different when a much larger area is viewed normal size from around a six-foot range, i.e. when looking at room-sized area from standing up.

bouicca21

DD refers to 'landlord blue' as she says every rental she has ever seen has blue carpets ...

csgohan4

Why not all 3?, be a cut above the rest?

fashionvictim

I'd go for the brown, grey is the new beige but not THAT office grey.

If you can get a dark brown beige would work, not an ivory light beige as nice as it looks it will get ruined

theartfullodger

I'd go for dark-ish with flecks.. What someone once described to me as "sh*t & breadcrumbs"