Personally, I like it. But I have a sound sensitivity and I don't have pets. Carpet helps drown sounds and I like the cushion and feel. However I think carpet and pets are always a bad deal.

Our new house has hardwood in the bedrooms and I'm ok with that too. I use an air purifier at night to drown sound and we are going to put in a rug.

Carpet is perfectly fine in bedrooms, even if everywhere else is hardwood. Carpet dampens noise, its soft, and warm. Hardwood in a master bedroom is a nice selling point though, so if you were going to extend it into any bedroom that would be the one.

I am redoing all the floors in my home. I debated about replacing the carpet in my bedrooms with a different surface, but we have cold Winters here in Connecticut ( there is a snowstorm happening as I type). I like the warmth and cozy feel of a carpeted bedroom. If I got hardwood, I'd still end up getting an area rug, covering most of the room, so it would seem to be a waste of money and still not as cozy. I'm looking into a low pile, maybe Berber, to eliminate those traffic patterns. Btw_I have allergies and IMO, you have to clean, no matter what. Most will sway you away from carpet, but we all live different lives and in different places. Good Luck with your choice.

We like carpet in the bedrooms.

We are in the process of changing the flooring in our home that we probably sell in the next few years. After much back and forth we decided to put hardwood everywhere except bedrooms and baths. Reasons are:

1. Some people prefer carpet, other hardwood you can't please everybody

2. The bedrooms have doors so it's not a big deal if a potential buyer wants hardwood, he can install it even if it doesn't match the rest of the house. Also bedrooms are rather small compared to the rest of the house so it's easier to get deals on hardwood. Overall it's not such a big hassle if they don't like carpet as it would be if they wanted to change the whole house.

If you do not have a pet. Carpet is a good choice.

I like a sisal look wall to wall in the bedroom because when it meets hardwood floors, the transition is seamless. Hubby does not…his feet are so sensitive and delicate (LOL), he wants a thick plush carpet..

My favorite: Stanton “Anywhere”.

I love the look of hardwood floors with a beautiful rug under the bed, but in reality, that's tough housekeeping.

I would do hardwood with a carpet for noise and warmth . Carpet in a house no matter where is a big turn off for most buyers

Go for the wood and use area rugs for color and warmth. If and when you ever sell (never say never!) you will have happier buyers. You can always cover up a wood floor, but if you have to rip out carpet, you will never get the match just right. Also, carpet gets dusty and collects mites, etc etc....remember the last time you ripped out wall to wall...there’s always an alternative universe under there. LOL

In my last house I had hardwood throughout. My current house is mainly tile with carpet in the bedrooms. Personally, I love the carpet for the bedrooms. Nothing beats crawling out of bed on to soft padded carpet.

For me, carpet is only acceptable in the basement.

I have hardwood in all the rooms in my home--that's the way it was built way back in 1924. But since we raised our children here, we put wall to wall carpet in the bedrooms and the upstairs hallway. Much cozier and warmer for little feet. The rest of the home has area rugs. At any point we (or future buyers) can take up the carpet and refinish the hardwood floors.

A room sized area rug ( leaving a 15 " perimeter of wood APP ) .......Is the best. A change up the road is easy, you can rotate a rug for wear or soil in most cases, and you have the "soft" and warmth underfoot without staples, tacks and an arduous replacement in the future......and that unified hardwood base.

Area rugs to suit the occupants of each bedroom..... Easy peasy.

Edge to edge needs to be ONE selection..............everywhere. Or you will chop a second floor to a patchwork quilt. NO.

I live in a cold weather area, carpet in the bedroom for us. You just can't get the same warmth from an area rug. A good carpet pad under carpeting is a better insulator than just an area rug. We always had a dog and cat with carpeting with no extra dirt. Vacuums pick up animal hair just as well from a carpet as a hardwood floor.

I like a meat locker for sleeping, and no more than 65 degrees. Ps........no sniffles/hack cold in two years ( knocking on the desk)

Get sherpa slippers. A wool area rug, a down comforter, fresh blinding white sheets. Pets DOWNSTAIRS. Sorry. You do not need to inhale pet hair and dander all night. The dog will be fine. : ) So will your nose

JAN, 65 degrees really??? I keep my house at 74....year round. 74 in the summer, 74 in the winter. I am not going to bundle up like an Eskimo in my house! Besides, viruses love cooler temps and thrive in them!!!! As I sit here at the computer in my jeans and short sleeve Tshirt and no socks, thank you!!!

Besides, the pet dander and hair goes all over the house whether the dog is up or down. And the damn cat goes where ever she wants!!

I keep it at 68. lol, Happy Medium?

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Apparently, living in Florida has stayed with me!!!! I like it warm, warm, warm!! And I sleep with a sheet and thermal blanket!!

I vote for carpet!!!

72 during the day, 70 at night. And dog sleeps with us in the bed.

Jan! I didn't think anyone but me slept that way! I basically turn the heat off, and if it goes on in the middle of the night I do the same thing as you. I stumble out of bed to turn it off.

Glad to know I'm not the only nut lol.

You can add another nut! I always sleep with the thermostat at 65 degrees and an air purifier blowing the cool air around. It's sleeping perfection!

Back to the topic -- I've had both hardwoods and carpet in the bedrooms and prefer the carpet. It's soft and comfortable on the feet.

Ours is set at 72 day and 69 at night. If it wasn't for the utility thugs demanding their protection from freezing money every month I would have it set at 80 all the time. Sorry, but putting on a robe and slippers in the middle of the night to walk across the room into the bathroom is not my idea of a comfortable bedroom. I want a nice warm room and carpeted floors. Everyone's internal furnace is different. I got a dud. My internal furnace has been broken my whole life.

Don't think I read the M word: menopause.

Yikes! I’m really bad. I keep mine at 60 in the winter

We live in North Dakota, and turn the thermostat down to 62 at night. Programmable thermostat has the house at a toasty 70 when we get up in the morning, and back to 62 when we go to work.

I think a bedroom can go either way. We have carpet in the bedroom, hardwood in the hall to the bathroom, and vinyl in the bathroom. When we get up in the night, none of the floors is shockingly (or even uncomfortably) cold on bare feet. When we replace our bedroom carpet, I expect to carpet again, for sound absorption as much as anything.

@ KimKP and AnnKH -- Wow! That would even be a little cold for me (& I keep it at 65). You're inching towards hypothermia! Lol!

I'm with Kim and Ann. 63 at night. 70 during the day. 85 in the evening after we get the wood stove going! :)

Ahh, but I work nights! So 3 nights a week I am at work. My body is so messed up, it just wants to be warm!!

Again, carpet is awesome in the bedroom!!

I put hardwood in all my bedrooms when I put new flooring in. I just use large area rugs under the beds. I just like the look better, and I live in Texas, so not too cold under foot. I don't like that full carpet can get a stain, then your stuck... A nice soft shag rug under my bed to step out on!

Although I love carpet in bedrooms, the downside is that if someone is sick or injured, body fluids get on the carpet. Imagine living through the following: spouse is in the hospital but you have to sleep in the living room because your bedroom carpet is wet from cleaning in August.

I get large dust bunnies under my bed when I haven't cleaned in a while. I can easily reach them and clean hardwood with a mop without having to move any heavy furniture (a bed). Now, the dust bunnies still form on a carpeted surface as well - they just settle nicely into the fibers of the carpet and can only be reached when moving furniture and then vacuumed up. Wall to wall carpet is purely North American phenomenon - I haven't seen this any other place in the world. It looks cheap, it is cheap, it is tough to maintain and quickly becomes dirty and disgusting. All this talk about softness, quietness and warmness is nonsense. You can get all those features with a nice area rug. And having proper soundproofing installed between levels.

Vacuums have attachments to clean carpets under beds and furniture. You don't have to move them. Dust bunnies are formed by dust and other particle rolling over a flat surface. Carpets usually grab dust and particles to be vacuumed up before they form bunnies. I don't find dust bunnies under my furniture/bed in my carpeted bedrooms. But I did find bunnies under my parents beds when they had hardwood floors. The only reason they didn't carpet the bedrooms is because they were very frugal and didn't want to spend the money. It seems to me having hardwood floors only to cover the with a large area and scatter rug covering most of the floor is nonsense. Our average winter evening are freezing temp or below. Well, to tell the truth freezing temp at night is a heat wave in winter. Cold always finds a way in. Without carpet the floors are cold. Wall to wall carpets with pads have a higher R value than hardwood.

I hate to bear the bad news.....

Warm air rises. Unless your bedroom is on a concrete slab foundation..... bedrooms and their floors tend to be warmer than any room on your first floor.

Second, if you haven't looked at broadloom lately, you have missed out on plenty. Many are pretty much DESIGNED to be customized to area rugs. Many are too thick and plush to even be practical, edge to edge. Gorgeous and "green" in wonderful wools and wool blends. Yes, you use a pad!

You don't walk on the PERiMETER 15 or 18 inches of your room. If you do, you're a wall clinging bat : ) You walk near a dresser, along the bed, and to the bath.

You miss a style and texture opportunity sometimes, when not considering a hardwood with rugs. Your kid can puke, you toss an inexpensive rug. ..... she wants purple, he wants one in blue. You can have what YOU love.

So unless you are the "bat"......it's worth considering. AND YOUR NEXT rug is a thirty minute move of furniture and a roll out. Not a two day project : ( or entire second floor.

Yes warm air always does rise and always did. That is why the floors are colder. That is also why you reverse your ceiling fans in the winter. To draw the cold air up and force the warm air down. And why homes have cold air returns. A second floor bedroom floor over a first floor are warmer than a first floor bedroom over a basement because of the rise of heat. Our master is over an unheated garage. The garage ceiling is insulated and sealed. I can walk around on the carpeted floor in the bedroom and in the walk in closet barefooted in comfort. The master bath is tile and it is like walking on ice cubes. All have the same room temp.

I wouldn't have anything BUT carpet in my bedrooms.

annied75

@ KimKP and AnnKH -- Wow! That would even be a little cold for me (& I keep it at 65). You're inching towards hypothermia! Lol!

It's a well-published fact that human beings sleep much better in colder room temperatures. My thermostat goes down to 62 at night, in the winter. I sleep so much better than in the summer, when my thermostat is set at 73 at night.

And yes, I have carpet in my bedroom...and a nice warm duvet

Hardwood and area rugs.

I prefer hardwood and tile everywhere, plus cooler temps. I only have carpet upstairs in the hall and bedrooms because the floors were uneven and the remodel budget didn't go that far. If I get hot, it won't be pretty. And 72 is too hot for me indoors. <3

I'm a carpet in the bedroom girl. I just like the feel and warmth of it with bare feet and the sound absorption. We have carpet in our bedrooms, media room and workout rooms. Then hard flooring everywhere else. Its really just a matter of preference.

Bedding = Dust. Wood floors that can be cleaned with a dust mop or swiffer-type tool are much better for bedrooms, so, not a fan of carpets in the bedroom.

Much prefer rug runners beside the bed that can be easier and more thoroughly cleaned -- and, they're easier to replace and /or just swap out when you want a change in bedding -- such as from season to season.

Chess, it is not a "fact" because the research on it is not conclusive. It is an anecdotal fact which means it is based purely on hearsay. Most women will agree with cold rooms because of menopausal symptoms. Most men will not!!!!

Kathi when my husband and I were first married we lived in a condo where our bedroom was on a cement slab and was FREEZING cold in the winter. Thus my husband got used to sleeping in a cold room and doesn't mind it at all. This saved a lot of arguing now that I must have it cold lol.

I myself am ready to change out the carpet in my bedroom, and am going to go with hardwood. We recently took up the carpeting in the hallway and my son's old room, and I want to match the flooring. To me it is much easier to clean the dust off a wood floor. I will get some sort of throw rug for the room however for comfort.

it is not a "fact" because the research on it is not conclusive. It is an anecdotal fact which means it is based purely on hearsay. Most women will agree with cold rooms because of menopausal symptoms. Most men will not!!!!"

It is not anecdotal. It is fact. And I don't know a man that does not prefer sleeping in a cold room (other than my 91 year old father).

https://www.simplemost.com/science-says-sleeping-cold-room-better-health-because-body-heat/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04real.html

http://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/08/30/sleep-cold-room-health/

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/17/tip-for-insomniacs-cool-your-head-to-fall-asleep/

https://sleepjunkies.com/health/science-sleeping-cool-room/

https://www.thealternativedaily.com/reasons-to-sleep-in-cold-room/

I think a different wall to wall in every bedroom is a bit much, lending itself to the patchwork reference Jan made, but as a destination signature it can be quite lovely. In an older home, carpet can help make up for aged insulation or irregular heating : since we are sharing, my own master is 48- 50 degrees in winter. Both slippers and wall to wall are appreciated :)

The above articles are indeed interesting, but there is no scientific study to validate any of those statements. As the wife of an epidemiologist, I understand the difference between what experts "believe" and what has been proven scientifically. And sleeping in a cold or cool room has not had any scientific studies to prove the validity of such statements, that I have been able to find.

Diane, my hubby just turned up the heat!! He is quite comfortable in our house.

LOL. You can choose to ignore facts if you wish. Enjoy your sleep!