Ours is in the foyer.

Choosing a place where it will be away from draft, moisture, extremes of temperatures, etc., is a good place to start. Clocks are better served on wood, hardwood, concrete, tile, granite, stone floors than carpet especially if carpet is very plush, the reason being they need complete stability and not exposed to swings in temperatures and humidity. Carpet can have enough "give" in it to affect the pendulum's swing in heavily used areas, not to mention the dust from carpet. Antique grandfathers are very delicate gadgets, but well constructed. Newer clocks are not quite so tempermental but are still somewhat tempermental.

We have 2. The larger one is in our entry foyer adjacent to the stairway, the "Grandmother" clock is in the Family Room. Both rest upon hardwood floors. Photos are linked from "My Page".

Ours is in the foyer, too.

Sigh...mine still lives in a shop in Germany.

When we lived in Belgium and traveled through Europe, I WISH we had had the foresight to buy one then. LOL!

Someday....

Here is a link that might be useful: Creative Soul

Mine's in the corner of the great room. It's one of the first things you see upon entering. It's on hardwood floors.

It was my retirement gift... When we have a power outtage, it just keeps going LOL

Ours is in a corner of the dining room. It's on hardwood floors. Our dining room is directly in front of the foyer so it can be seen but is out of the way of general traffic.

HD and I bought a wonderful Herschedes (Shefield model) nine-tube grandfather clock for our tenth Christmas together in 1979. It sits along a tall cathederal wall in our living room and is very visible from the front door entry. Luv that clock!!!!

Still part of a master plan & dream for me! One of my favorite rooms is in an antiques mall near my mom & a dealer who sells primarily clocks of all shapes & sizes. They all work & he has them all running in his private room/ booth. No other sounds - just the tick-tock of over 100 clocks. I LOVE IT!!!!! So relaxing & I can imagine my great grandfather walking through the door w/ his pipe, newspaper & Old Spice smell, to sit & read w/ me as a child.

Our clock is in our foyer.

It has been in foyer but it is now in the dining room on hardwood and it just seems "right".

Our temperamental grandfather clock sits on the carpeting near the front door -- just past the tiny area that I could remotely call a foyer -- since our front door opens straight into our tiny house.

Right now -- it is silent. It simply is protesting our dry dry Dallas weather -- way too hot for this time of year. Sigh.

Our grandfather clock dates from 1740. It has a rocking clipper ship at the top of the face -- and very very heavy stone weights. A similar clock rests in Paisley Scotland in their museum ...... but ours is simply a rescued, loved and crafted re-crafted soul.

I do miss its ticking and its gong ..... but once again ..... it will have to be "looked at......" sigh ......

I mutter dire threats at its sleeping face as I pass by in the night with my midnight tea-n-toast ........

We thought we were putting ours in the foyer but it is too small and we couldn't really see it from there anyway. Ours is in the corner of the family room (carpet), by the fireplace.

And before anyone yells that's bad, I have to add that we live in Lousiana and use the fireplace very seldom, and even then, the fires are small and cozy, not big and blazing. We've had our Howard Miller clock since 1999 and so far so good. I DO look forward to pulling up the carpet sometime soon and having either wood or laminate in.

I love my clock. I think it sounds richer than anyone elses.
Susan

How do you all put up with the sound? Did it drive you crazy at first? Did you learn to not hear it? What about when you're trying to sleep? Enquiring minds want to know. :-)

In addition to the grandfather clock that strikes on the hour and chimes in graduated lengths every quarter hour, we have two large walls clocks that strike on the quarter hour. Each clock also ticks loud enough to hear it a quiet room.

We don't hear any of this "noise" anymore. Well, maybe except when you WANT to hear something special on TV when the clocks all strike the 10, 11, or 12th hour simultaneously. I can fall asleep on the couch right under one of the clocks and never have it wake me. Strange, but we DO notice when one of them quits running.

As a kid we moved into a new house next to a railroad track. Thought we'd never get used to that loud roaring in the middle of the night. After one week, we never heard the train again and wondered if it was still operating...it was.

Ours is in our living room. Funny you ask that oceanna, I don't really hear it anymore..I think we are just so use to it. Now our black forest coo coo clock is another story..lol Ree

teacats! we have a similar ship rocking clock that dates from about 1820-30. It was built in Vermont by dh's great-great-grandfather. It is very, very loud, so we haven't even wound it since we inherited it this summer.

Unfortunately, the ONLY place it will fit in our house is in our vaulted sunroom because of the height and we still had to take the top finial off. It is out of direct sunlight, but I so wish we had ceilings high enough to put it in another room!

Even though my grandmother had an entry hall/foyer area, she had hers in the living room. Maybe it was a bit tall for the entry which was higher by a step, but I loved it in the lr where it was at the base of the stairs. It felt like a part of the family that way :)

The only times I hear my grandfather or grandmother clock are when they are not working. I notice the deafness of no clock sound when one of these 3 or my mantle clock does not work. I rarely if ever notice some of the others when they are not running but if the grandfather/grandmother or the French mantle clock is not working, I notice the absence of the sound. It becomes an integral part of your life after years. What's not to love about the sound of soft mellow chimes of St. Michael or Winchester, etc?

Patricia is very right -- I only notice the absence of noise when one of our clocks is NOT working! LOL! And our grandfather clock has a loud chime too -- just on the hour.

Our Seth Thomas mantel clock that rests in the bookcases in the living room (along with the grandfather clock) has an hour/half-hour strike. Luckily that one keeps going .....

Our German mantel clock in the office has Westminister or Trinity chimes -- which are lovely!

We have a grandfather clock that is 200 years old. We put it in the foyer at first (recently moved), but it was so close to the stairs that we thought it was an accident waiting to happen (toddler son could touch it if he walked up the stairs...didn't want to see him try to push it over, LOL). We now have it in the dining room, so you can see it when you come in the front door.

My Grandfather clock has a setting so that you can turn it on and off. I turn it off every night before bed, and then turn it on in the morning. A few times I've left it on and gone to bed. The "bonging" drove me CRAZY. I wish I was one of those people who could tune it out...

Ours is on carpet.

In front of a plate glass window.

I know, I know. I just haven't come up with a better solution yet. We'll get rid of some furniture and get some new in the next few weeks and I'll take another stab at relocating the clock. Unfortunately, wall space is a precious commodity in this joint.

As for the sound, unfortunately our grandfather clock has a pitiful chime. DH humors me by not winding the chime. We have some other clocks with lovely chimes and I like to hear them.

MIne is in my sitting room

Jakabedy, some chimes were not pretty to begin with but most of the older grandfathers had much more beautiful chimes than the newer clocks. Newer clocks have a "brassy" sound (craftsman ship has been gone for a while). If, however, you do not like the chime to the point it bothers you, a good clock man can find working parts from old clocks and replace it or even offer you a newer chime that is less finicky. Placing a clock on a soft floor by a draft can also change the sound of the chime. Remember it is recommended you not even wind your clock without clean white gloves to prevent body oils and sweat from touching the intricate working parts, so putting it by a window means all that is multiplied 100 times and could be the reason your clock does not have that melodic sound. If so, then you probably need new working parts. I have all my clocks serviced each December (around the first of the month so I know they are working at Christmas). My musician son has perfect pitch and cannot stand the sound of my 20th century grandfather clock so we turn it off when he is here, but he loves the sound of the older clocks.

Mine resides in a corner of my dining room. Used to have the perfect foyer for it in my "ex" home, but in my little old house, space is so limited -- dining room just had to do!

Patricia -

Ours is an older clock, but not nearly as old as some mentioned here. It is ca. 1900-1910. It is an oak A&C clock and doesn't have particularly fancy works. I'm sure a good clock man could fix the chime. I'm sure there are broken parts. But it's not the carpet/window location causing the problem. We originally got the clock earlier this year when we lived in the last house, and it had a nice level hardwood floor there.

This place is still in sort of a state of upheaval, and doesn't have much wall space to spare. In a roughly 20' x 50' great room (DR + LR + kitchen) there is a grand total of 30' of wall space. But I am going to find a way to make it work.

My husbands family had a really old one ,there was a date on it 1801.I would love to have that in my old house but when his father passed away they put 8 brothers name and one sister in a hat and pulled one name.It wasnt us.darn....

Bulldinkie, I believe the protocol has always been the oldest son gets the grandfather clock. At least that is what we were told and our kids seem to understand that but we have many clocks for them to fight over above and beyond that.