Many people consider frieze the 2016 version of shag carpet and hate it. And, certain vacuums can't handle it. Instead, consider a 6 strand nylon pile carpet.

Not the two-color, please no! Yuck.

We did a multi colored frieze in a neutral greige/beige/brown. We put it in days before the house went up. In our price range it was a hit.

My sister just bought a home and the builder did a taupe multi-tones frieze. I was surprised it was considered a popular choice now. I put a frieze in my master BR in this house when we bought it 14 years ago (replacing rose carpet with a once-white border) -- hated it. Looked nice and felt good to walk on when first installed, but it grabbed onto dirt and dust and was impossible to vacuum clean. We had visible paths where we walked. Then the fibers started to untwist. I would consider frieze a negative.

As long as it's new and neutral, get the cheapest thing you can find. They will come in, rip it out, and put what they want in anyway. You want neutral to show the house well. No color at all.

Interesting. I thought frieze was really popular now. So if not frieze, then what? I'm not going with a builder grade simply because I think it looks so cheap.

I'm with Suzi on this one. I'd immediately take the carpet out. Must be a regional thing, who has carpet anymore? Especially w/dogs, we like our hardwood and vinyl click flooring.

NO carpet is popular right now. The current buyers look at carpet the way my generation would have looked at a wringer washer. If you go to Floors to your Home or some local store to you, you can buy seconds of hardwood pretty cheaply. You do have to throw some out, but it can be worth it if you can find an hardwood installer. Even click laminate of decent quality would be better. If you must do carpet just for resale, get the cheapest abjectly neutral carpet you can find.

Trust me, cheap is good when you are selling. I've overspent on too many homes. Don't do it.

You are not replacing the carpeting for yourself. You are replacing it to sell. When I sold my house in 2010, I found the least expensive, most neutral, low pile carpet at HD for my stairs. It was clean. That was the important thing.

Better still would be a vinyl tile.

If we didn't already have engineered hardwood in the living room and hall, I would put a laminate all the way through. But I think a laminate would look odd next to the wood. Can't do wood in two of the bedrooms because the moisture test was too high. So it's carpet.

Might be regional. And price point. Some lookers at our home last year wanted more carpet and less tile.

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Our neighbor agonized over color and quality when she recarpeted two rooms prior to putting her house on the market. She spent over$5K, and it looked great...but was the first thing the buyer ripped out. Go with cheap!

Understood about the laminate. Go with inexpensive carpet. There are plenty that look fine when put down like we had.

Instead of replacing carpet why not just offer a credit to the buyer so they can put in the flooring of their choosing? When we were looking at houses I was bummed to see new carpet because we were just gonna take it put and put in engineered hardwood anyway. A credit it nice.