I match the closet flooring to the room flooring, whatever it is.

I saved money by not replacing the carpet in my closets. Big mistake. They stopped right AT the door meaning that the carpet peeks out under the door (dark green no less) and the fold under makes it hard to close the doors. My installers did such a beautiful job otherwise, can't believe they did this. If you decide not to carpet closets make sure they at least take wood in past the door jamb.

We also match the closet flooring to its adjoining room.

As I have hardwoods or tile everywhere else, having the master closet carpeted is cozy. I like sitting on the floor in there occasionally and have napped there. It feels cleaner than most carpet as it's private.

So it seems like most people have done it or wish they had. The cost is $1000 for the closets, not negligible but not jaw dropping--- just enough to give pause, lol. It was an easy decision to leave carpet in the MBR closet because it is separated from the wood flooring by travertine. And eventually I want to put in that yummy yellow and cream Karastan check wool carpet in the closet. The other closets open directly into the rooms but installer assures me there will be no carpet visible when closet doors are closed.

I feel as if I would be duty bound to clean out the closets if we were taking all that stuff out anyway. Honestly, I just don't have the time or wherewithal to do that right now. Maybe I should wait until September,

I agree with matching the closets to the room flooring. I replaced carpet throughout the house with wood, including closets.

That said, since you are concerned the wood might not be available, you could buy enough extra now to do the closets later on.

That was a conundrum that we faced when we installed hardwood. Our living room has a decently sized walk in closet. I just couldn't bear the thought of having to dig out all the items stored there. I asked my flooring guy (love him) and he said that he has seen in done both ways and since our 20 plus year old carpet was still in perfect condition my laziness won out. I don't regret the decision at all. Our flooring installers took the flooring to the inside jamb (?) of the door. Our pale green carpet doesn't show at all with the door closed. We are considering making the walk in closet a small mudroom and I would rather have DH take off muddy shoes etc. on the old carpet than beautiful hardwood floors (I will add a generously sized indoor/outdoor rug on top of it). If your installers do the install correctly it will not be a minus aesthetically. I am so persnickety that I was apprehensive that not having the hardwood go the whole way through would bother me but it doesn't in the least. WTBS, if I was building the home I would have run the hw through the closet.

Another vote for matching flooring. All of our closets have hardwood floors. My walk in is hardwood but I also have a beautiful silk Persian area rug in the center.

This is a great opportunity to clean out your closets.

Match the room. It's extra work but leaving the carpet will be odd IMO.

While I think it looks great to match the closet flooring to the rest of the room, just be prepared to buy an area rug for the closets. We just bought a second home that has hardwood in the large walk-in closets and bedrooms. For dressing it's just really nice to have a rug beneath you we find, so it's been a bit of a challenge to find smaller area rugs that also coordinate with the large area rug in each room.

Not that you're considering resale value, but It wouldn't have affected our decision to buy the home if there had been a nice quality neutral carpet that was in the closets if the carpet started just beyond the jamb so it wasn't visible when the door was closed.

Mine is separated from wood by the travertine bathroom. Therefore, it did not "peek" out to the hardwood, and I do like that cozy feeling of it. I just think sometimes it makes my house look chopped up. However, my BR closet is one of the few places we have that is completely surrounded by walls where there is no glass nearby. It is wrapped totally by solid walls without glass and that is my go-to place when the sirens sound and if I die in my closet, maybe the carpet will soften the blow.

Put hardwood in the closets that touch the hardwood floors. We went through this a few years ago in a previous house. We choose the hardwood because it is just a cleaner look. It is cheaper just to do it all at once. $1000 is not that much money to finish the job.

We have hardwood in our closets and love the clean look.

"Another vote for matching flooring. All of our closets have hardwood floors. My walk in is hardwood but I also have a beautiful silk Persian area rug in the center. "

Thank you for this suggestion. :) I have a small Persian rug that belonged to my grandmother. It really doesn't match much in my home. It is currently being used as an indoor mat in front of my double front doors in the foyer. I placed it there when my elderly dog started having trouble standing. She would slide all over the foyer waiting for me to let her out the door. It was also good to have a mat when she came in from the rain or snow.

My precious girl had to be put to sleep last week, and I was thinking that I would like to move the rug elsewhere. Not coming up with any good ideas, I resigned to leave the rug in the foyer. The Master closet sounds like a wonderful idea!

Yes, closets should be wood like the bedroom.

We put wood in the closets when we took the carpet in the bedroom out. But we had the flooring guy cut out old carpet in the closets (which was in good shape), take it back to his shop and bind it, and then put it back in. A perfect fit but it is not glued down. (He didn't even charge for this). If we ever want just hardwood, it's there for us or the next buyer. When we moved in 20 years ago we had hardwood in some rooms but carpeted the bedrooms. When we decided to put hardwood in the bedrooms, it was a little difficult to find a good match to thenother hardwood floor. So my opinion is do all the flooring now or you may regret it later

I've had both carpet and hardwood in closets and I prefer hardwood. It's easier for me to clean and there's less dust and lint on my clothing. The negatives are that the wood in the closet will eventually be a different color from the the wood outside the closet because of sun fading and you have to be a little careful when moving things on the floor so that you don't scratch it.

I have always had hardwood. As Fun said, it is easier to clean. Also, I was always told that one should not have carpet in a closet-bugs, moths, etc. To me, the idea of carpet in a closet is a relatively new one. Years ago when I was thinking of re-carpeting a downstairs bedroom, the salesman's measurement included the closet and I was so surprised. Never would have occurred to me! Didn't do it, though.

I figure this is one of those 'to each his own' decisions.

Newhomebuilder - I'm so sorry to read about your dear dog. We went through that last year and that was the reason I put the silk rug in my closet. My elderly dog would wait patiently by the door to go outside and if I didn't notice in time he'd have little accidents. I had it cleaned and decided it needed a safer location.

Neither my rug nor my closet are large but it's a wonderful touch of luxury to have this lovely little piece of art in my closet and it's a welcoming feeling for bare feet in the morning. I'm sure you'll enjoy your grandmother's Persian in your closet too.

My closet, although a walk-in, is not very large. It's long and narrow, like the rug. Perfect fit!

My Riley never wet the rug, thank goodness. We also have a large doormat rug on the porch, so in reality, any rain or snow residual got knocked off before entering the house.

Sorry about your dog, as well. It has been a heart breaking week for us.

We had bamboo flooring installed throughout our house about 6 years ago. The installer asked if I wanted bamboo or cedar flooring in the closets (all are reach-in), said his preference is cedar. I'm glad we did the cedar, as it smells nice and may help prevent insects from eating our clothing.

If the only choice is wood vs. carpet, I would match the rest of the room.

I am very sorry to hear about Riley. We went through the same thing with our girl Folly last year.

Sara

My closet is off my master bath, which has porcelain tile, but I had the same carpeting installed in the closet as in the bedroom~I can't imagine cold flooring in a closet, especially if you use it to dress in, as I do. Wood might not be too bad, and I guess I could have used an area rug on the tile, but carpeting just seems to be what's 'expected' in a MB closet, unless the bedroom is wood.

Going through the same decision right now, and while the prospect of cleaning out the walk-in closets seems daunting, we'll go with HW in the closet. We have AC/heating vents in the closet and found that the carpet is a huge dust collector, so I'm hoping it'll be easier to collect the dust bunnies off the HW.

Sara - Thank you for your condolence. I'm sorry about your Folly.

I didn't mean to turn this thread around, so back to the subject. Like nosoccermom mentioned, my closet has AC/heating and a window. The floors stay very comfortable temperature wise. I do notice that my black pants, that hang on a lower rack, get dusty. I assume that is from the vent. However, the floors don't seem to collect dust.

NHB, that breaks my heart about Riley! I am so sorry for your loss.

We also match our closets to the flooring in the room. Hardwood is my choice. Honestly, I don't plan to ever have carpet again - anywhere. But certainly, that is a personal choice

My bedroom floor is carpeted, master bath is tile, I put the same tile in my master walkin closet. I LOVE having tile in the closet ( I do have heated floors). They are so easy to clean and it's amazing the amount of dust and crud I wipe up off the closet floor every week. I'm so thankful I went with tile!

One room I did wood and one room I left old carpet and replaced with new carpet later when I was doing another carpet project. I left the carpet in a room that had a sliding closet door because the closet floor was completely concealed. In the other room with bifold doors the closet flooring was somewhat visible with wood because the doors were high enough to open above the old carpet and the wood floor was lower so you could see in there a bit even with the door closed. There was also no physical separator between the room and the closet like there was with the sliding track so it didn't make any sense to leave the carpet.