I brought home four shades of cream-to-taupe, and this was the winner. This photo was taken outdoors in the late afternoon sun, it's actually more taupe than it looks in the photo. One other sample was exactly the color that is on the floor now (but clean, new and unworn, of course) and I think that's too pale. The carpet in the hall/bedrooms is your basic builder-grade light beige, the years have not been kind to it. This stuff is a much higher quality and super-duper stain repellent. I like the darker color. The paint chip in the running is the lightest one, it's called "Balance." Strangely appropriate. I'm torn between this and Cream in my Coffee, which is a bit lighter.
It's not that I have a beige and colorless house - my living room walls are deep crimson below the chair rail, my countertop is a dramatic black-gray-cream granite, I love rich color - but when it comes to investments in carpet, I go neutral, in case I want to sell the place later. It's Corporate Relocation Woman talking - I'll put all sorts of dramatic color in the things that can be switched out cheaply. Bad carpet can kill a home sale - I know, I've run into enough nightmares. No matter how much you love teal, rose, and/or tangerine, for the love of God, don't carpet your entire house in it. Paint it on the walls. Upholster the furniture. But please, don't make the next buyer have to chip up your pink marble dining room floor. (I'm not making that up - we loved the house, the rest of it was perfect, but I had nightmares of long evenings with beer and hammers and chisels and then many thousands of dollars to fix their other bad color choices. We passed.)
The timetable, if it happens, is sell soul to Home Despot for the carpet tomorrow evening, measure Friday (since I had the day off anyway, that will be painting weekend) and install the following Friday if that's possible. I'm flexible on the install date.
Offered as evidence that I do still knit, and that I am knitting socks again:
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