What’s Below Your Feet | Flooring

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode of Dear Alice, we talk about the daunting task of choosing flooring. Learn when and where to use an area rug, what spaces work better with carpet vs wood or tile and finally, how to transition between each, to give your home a flow you will love to live in. - Types of Flooring 3:17 - When to use wood, carpet, or tile 11:13 - Rugs 16:55 - Making all Parts work together 18:29 - Last Words of Advice when Shopping 21:31 “When you’re looking at all your rugs, just print them all out, look at them all together maybe before you purchase that next one, and make sure it’s going to get along with what you already have.” 20:30 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:17.0	Hey guys, we're back. Let's talk about flooring today. Oh, the people have questions and we are excited to talk about it.
0:30.0	So today's question is, if I am carpeting four bedrooms and everywhere else is
0:36.4	hardwood or tile do you recommend using the same carpet for all four rooms or
0:40.2	should they be different? What about colors? Thanks so much. So I just have to say
0:47.2	really quick a little shout out to the 80s. I remember we were walking through we
0:51.0	lived in Colorado Springs for like one year and we were buying an
0:54.4	existing home this is my parents in the 80s I wasn't buying a house in the 80s I was in
0:59.0	first grade but anyway every single room in the house in the 80s
1:03.5	was a different color carpet.
1:05.6	And I remember being stoked because one of the bedrooms
1:07.8	had red carpet and I chose that room.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:10.5	I bet you looked pretty when you woke up.
1:11.9	Put it every single threshold. Oh my gosh, I know right?
1:15.6	At every single threshold, there was a different carpet.
1:19.2	It was like a patchwork quilt.
1:20.4	It was crazy.
1:21.2	They were experimental in the 80s. We were kind of
1:25.4	rolling out of it. Yeah. Well yeah the 80s and 90s and so forth have figured
1:30.6	it all out for us today. So today what we found is do not use a
1:34.7	different carpet in in every bedroom. If you can just use the same carpet
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