The master bedroom is also a good place to install hardwood or hardwood laminate flooring.
Carpet or wood floor upstairs in play room.
Adding 40 pound felt padding to wool or nylon carpet can reduce noise by 50 to 70 percent.
Well as promised i am going to break down the entire process for you and show you how we went from carpet to hardwood stairs for under 100.
Soft dense pile wall to wall carpet in sumptuous wool is a logical choice for this restful retreat.
This is the most common stair treatment when the upstairs floor is carpeted the cushy carpeted stairway is a visual link to the next floor and gives a hint that the upstairs space is for bedrooms.
Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this.
In addition should a fall ever occur carpet offers a much softer landing spot than wood flooring which could help reduce the likelihood of injury.
Hallways and stairs benefit from either option.
Hard surfaces are slippery and can easily lead to a fall.
If you happened to see this post from last week then you have already had a sneak peak at my newly redone stairs.
If you do have hardwood stairs you may want to consider a runner to increase safety.
Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some.
Carpet the stairs to match.
Having carpet on the stairs doesn t necessarily prevent falls but it helps to provide traction compared to hardwood.
Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway.
Once it dries apply two coats of clear coat.
Hardwood is a good because high traffic throughways would benefit from a durable low maintenance flooring.
High quality nylon has a high resilience similar to that of wool.
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Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal.
If there were existing hardwoods underneath the carpet sand them before re staining.
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Follow the instructions on dry time.
As an ideal flooring for upstairs rooms it absorbs and.
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