Has anyone tried commercial quality or some other high traffic carpet for
hallways and normal residential plush carpeting for the bedrooms and
living/dining rooms?
Coming in from the garage, we have to walk through the hallways to the
kitchen since the entrance from the garage isn't near the kitchen. This
tracks dirt on wet days and adds lots of extra traffic when bringing in
groceries unless we hassle with removing shoes to bring groceries in.
Carpet runners in the hallways would be a hassle to clean, would mat down
the carpet underneath and would become a trip hazard. Installing tile would
be very expensive for the amount needed especially since that would
necessitate also tiling the connected kitchen, bathroom and laundry so tile
would never bizarrely connect with vinyl floors.
I think there is a rule that says carpet can touch tile and vinyl can touch
carpet, but vinyl cannot touch tile.
Is there a rule that says not to have different grades of carpet on the same
floor of a house? How would two different carpet styles connect at their
borders without looking strange?
So I'm considering a high traffic carpet in the hallway when the carpeting
is redone. I wouldn't want this carpet in the other rooms.