The stair should match first floor. There's no good solution unless a rip of the laminate you installed. I'd be inclined to leave the bedrooms as carpet. do the upper hall as first floor. Or rip the laminate you previously installed

Tile foyer should in a perfect world be the gun stock oak, and that would carry into kitchen.

For a better answer? Post pics.

THE FEWER floors? The better. White ceramic sounds very dated........

PS. BEFORE the upstairs? Unify the first floor. No wall to wall carpet in dining room............: ( and do not add laminate to the first floor. Just NO.

Amen to all of that. I never would mix fake wood and real anywhere .

I decided on laminate upstairs in one of the bedrooms that I was making into home gym, I felt that was more appropriate and durable than hardwood. I liked the look so much, decided to do other 2 bedrooms, plus cuz the carpets in those rooms were in rough shape and needed to be replaced. now I want to get rid of carpeting in whole house if I can, just not sure how to transition. I don't want to pull up the laminate in bedrooms thst I just laid.
I'll try to attach pics.

foyer, with ceramics that go all the way back to kitchen. family room at back of house beside kitchen. living dining still with carpet. upstairs with carpet in hall, laminate in rooms.

Following this post. What flooring would you use on the first floor, if wood might not be in the budget?

Jan if I do the gunstock up the stairs as you suggested, plus put in my front living/dining room, do you think it will go ok with the grey-beige laminate if I pull that through to the whole upstairs?

Gunstock is a smoky orange based colour. It might work with the laminate...If the laminate has PLENTY of caramel tones in it. As in 50% or more. Grey does not normally play well with orange.

If you want to have simplified flooring in your house, you will need to consider the logic of having 10% of your square footage(a couple of bedrooms) dictating the other 90% of your home's flooring.

I know it feels like a waste....because it is. I'm sorry you have designed yourself into a corner. The greater good of the home should be looked at in this situation.

Of course, you can go in the opposite direction. You can do EVERYTHING in the laminate and save the kitchen for vinyl/tile.

But be aware, many laminates have a limited run then are discontinued. They get 18-24 months of time on the shelf and then are gone for good. The same for engineered hardwoods. Whichever way you go, be prepared to do it all at once, or you might never get the same thing 2 years from now.

Yes we've seen this over and over again. I've watched Houzzers complain about th is for almost a decade. It comes up 3-7 times per year....which means I've seen this 30+ times on this site ALONE!

these are the 2 colours the grey-beige laminate and the exact colour of the hardwood in gunstock oak. will they clash if they are next to each other at the top of my stairs?

In a word, "Ouch". I would not put these within 10 feet of each other let alone at a door way. Not to put such a fine point on it, but would you match a cinnamon blouse with gray pants?

As a former Women's wear salesperson I would be hard pressed to successfully 'sell' this combination. At the same time, I would be as diplomatic as possible to discourage such a selection for the same outfit.

There are people who can pull it off. They are bold. Direct. And the cinnamon often comes with leopard spots and the gray is integrated with faux snake print.

I'm not fond of it...but then again it isn't my house. Ask yourself how upset you would be to have 'saved' the laminate in the small square footage, only to find you you HATE the match. And then when you save up for the other rooms to be finished, you find out the gunstock is gone. Simply....gone.

ok fair enough. the gunstock i did a few years ago, already won't be able to get the very same one now, that specific floor is not available, though gunstock is a popular enough colour I can likely match it. but I only have that in one room. the grey beige is new, we just laid it. I love the colour of the laminate, definitely not going to pull it back up. so either I need to find a way to make it work, or maybe take up the hardwood in the family room and find a coordinating colour for main floor, or use the laminate throughout.

If your home's inherent value is NOT tied to a higher priced finish, like hardwoods throughout, then laminate does well. If you have a home that sits in the middle range, where nice finishes are mixed in the builder grade, then you want to make sure you mix of 'economic finishes' vs the 'nicer finishes'.

Get a solid oak hardwood ( sand on site ) for the remainder of the first floor , sand/stain gun stock you already did, to match the new as closely as possible. ........use a select red oak, or white oak, and go BROWNER/DARKER. Forget the stupid handrail. .......that got you in trouble and in orange tones.

Rip the carpet from stairs, PAINT them. White risers, black tread. Black handrail, white spindles. ADD A Custom RUNNER. You would need it no matter what lies beneath.

Second floor: Hardwood the hallway as first along with the master bedroom.

What you already did? Huge mistake. Carpet OVER it, or rip it.

Laminate is inexpensive. You goofed. There's no good way to fix it.

This is what happens when you peck at a house, without thinking through to an end result of the WHOLE.

Nothing lives in isolation. A single room certainly does not. Nothing does. Don't compound your mistakes.