I like striped carpets on stairs, and would like them in rooms used occasionally, but I think the bright ones might be a bit much in a regularly used room, or one where you want to relax.
My neighbours have no carpets anywhere as far as I can tell. I really think there should be bylaws to stop people in adjoined houses having bare wood on stairs and in upstairs rooms (and it must be worse in flats). The noise when the children run up and down stairs and play in their rooms is really intrusive, and the fact that there are none anywhere means there is nothing to muffle the sound.
They must be the fourth lot of neighbours we've had, and whereas the others haven't all had as many children (there are four of them) we have never had so much noise as since the carpets came out.
A bit of de-cluttering. Now and then