I get it 100%. The binder is wrong. He or She should balance it and give you the width you want. 24 inches is very narrow,

It's not installed yet but I put a deposit down on patterned wall to wall in a trellis pattern for my upstairs hall and stairs (will be cut and bound as a runner - and also an area rug for downstairs. I got it on deep discount because it's been discontinued and cannot find the pattern online but this is the colorway: No border in my small space and I could not afford the coordinated runner with smaller border so we kept it simple. The pattern is a trellis pattern, which which looks like it is made of a twisted ribbon, with a small flower at each intersection. This is the only area of wall to wall in our house - every other room is hardwood or tile - but we'd have to move out while refinishing the floor under the carpet so we decided to go for a "posh hotel" style carpet in our 120 year old house. I will post pics when it is done. People don't use it much for two reasons. 1) carpet is not trendy at the moment in general 2) patterned carpet is way way way more expensive than plain carpet. I mentioned we got a closeout piece - to do the same job in the scroll pattern I posted with coordinated runner would have been over $2k for my small hall and stairs. We are paying about $1100 for what we got. To do it in a patterned berber (harlequin) would have been about $700. Patterned carpet is a pretty high end product.

Haha, in the 2.5 years we've lived in the house, I never noticed how poorly matched the existing stair runner was until you pointed it out! Thanks for the excellent input. Definitely, if we did go with one of these larger pattern repeat carpets, we would just run it continuously from top to bottom of the stairs without cutting it for each individual step and trying to pattern match it on each step as they had tried to do with the current stair runner. Each individual step would have a slightly different "look" about it rather than each step being almost uniform--do you think that would pose a problem?

Hi Katie, we ended up going with one carpet for the stairs going up, so that it matched with the carpet upstairs in the hall and bedrooms. However, I did get to use the chevron on the other stairs leading to the basement. I'm really glad I did, they both look great. The stanton bravo carpet is tighter woven, so not as soft, but I think it will hold up great over time. We just wanted to keep the upstairs light and more neutral, and that carpet (Karastan graceful structure) is sooo soft, goes with warm or cool colors.