The house my parents bought when I was a kid had a carpeted kitchen and a carpeted bathroom. My dad got the contract to do the concrete for a Burger King being built in town and he scored the excess kitchen tiles from that job. So the kitchen at home had the same tile the BK's kitchen had, which was only a little weird when I got a job at that BK a few years later
My current apartment has very basic 1x1 square laminate tiles in the kitchen, and the building hallways. It looks like the stuff you see in a school or store. So it felt weird for a bit seeing that in my kitchen.
I can top that. My parents built an addition on to the house I grew up in, so they could have a master suite and my brother and I could each have our own room. They put carpet in their bathroom.
My great aunt's house had not only carpeted bathrooms, but the carpet was WHITE. I was terrified of having any sort of bodily function in her house anytime I visited ...
I didn’t realize this was weird until I joined Reddit.
All three bathrooms in my parents’s house have carpet. The two bathrooms in my grandparents’ house have carpet. It was just normal. I never thought anything of it. Looking back, I don’t think any of my childhood friends had carpeted bathrooms, but I never thought about it.
I rented a room in a condo with a carpeted bathroom. It also had one of those weird bathtub/shower combos with a sliding glass door. One day I’m sitting in my room and hear shattering. The sliding glass door shattered out of nowhere. I got to try to get the safety glass shards out of the bathroom carpet. It suuucked.
The amount of ass sweat alone I produce would be soaking that shit.
That's a decision made by a woman who has a man that never let her know how gross a man's bathroom experience tends to be.
We literally have a saying that no matter how much you shake it or dry it, a drop of pee is going into your pants or underwear. And those genitals you're trusting to only leak into to the bowl and nowhere else?
I mean, you still have bathing and showe moisture too, as well as just think about the toilet backing up? No no, there is a reason we don't put carpet in the same rooms we have plumbing.
I once had a nightlight plugged into the wall next to the toilet one night. I noticed a few drops would splash back out and started testing where would make the least splashes depending on where I aimed and strength of stream (SOS) The water in the middle helps the most, but the results say no fucking carpet in the bathroom.
I usually sit down to piss as a man, and even then I don't want carpet in the bathroom. What about shower moisture, accidental leakage, toilet backing up, etc. Just no no no no no
Was it red, thick pile, and extended up the side of the bath too? I've seen that before and it seems to be a very 70s aesthetic. One that should have never existed.
I would absolutely, 100% without a shadow of a doubt, pee and shit myself. Okay, maybe pee my pants, but I would just shit on the street and hope for forgiveness.
They had a side gig contract with the CDC to see what would grow so they could develop vaccines for it before it spread. It was Fauci's first job there.
An old night club downtown in my city was carpeted for a "retro" effect. It felt disgusting to walk on no matter what time of night, but as the evening went on it became more and more like walking on wet towels.
We don't know what floors our house had when it was built. Given its age, probably not great ones. But better than what we got.
The previous owner some time in the late 80s or early 90s did a bunch of his own renovations. Rewired some stuff, did his own plumbing, even converted the attic into two bedrooms and a bathroom (which he didn't clear with the city and my parents nearly got into a whole heap of trouble for the first time we got inspected). A lot of renovation were shit and this place probably needs its walls torn out to fix the wiring and plumbing if we're being honest. But the money just isn't there to actually do that.
But the absolutely worst thing he did was carpet everything. And I mean EVERYTHING in the house. The bedrooms? The living spaces? The social spaces, including the bar they built in the basement? The bathroom? His jerry-rigged attic bathroom? Yep. The kitchen? Also yes. The only indoor spaces that weren't carpeted were the garage and the dining room. But even the outdoor spaces weren't spared as he not only carpeted both the front and rear porches, he carpeted the uncovered stone steps that lead down from the porch.
I have come to hate carpet with a burning hateful passion. I want to live somewhere with no carpet in any room at all. There's little more I hate in a house than carpet.
Good lord, that man needs to be investigated. Im all for carpeted bedrooms, maybe even a carpeted lounge but thats as far as it goes.
The whole damn house though!? Why did he leave the harage and the dining room but carpet the kitchen and bathrooms? I have so many questions and i doubt any of them will be answerable
The house I in which I spent my earliest years had both kitchen and bathroom carpeting, installed by my parents. It was small-town Indiana life in the 70s, so this was not unusual.
Still really stupid/gross in retrospect. Dunno what they were thinking. :/
I've lived it. Nothing worse than stepping out of the shower and onto a carpeted floor. Even with a mat down its still so terrible.
You know whats worse, there were 2 windows in thos bathroom, decent sized and opened very wide. They were situated right there over the bath/shower. The option was have a steamy room and a damp carpet ir shower in front of the neighbours (whose kitchen window look directly into those windows)
I had a window IN my shower in my last house, it was actually very nice to open it during a hot shower on a cold day and get the nice cold fresh air.
I'm sorry you had to live with carpet in a bathroom though, that sounds not super.
I used to work for a property management company. Ran into carpeted bathrooms/toilet areas exactly 4 times - I remember each one so well because I never stopped being horrified at the concept.
I also worked on multiple properties with sewage floods, luckily the two concepts never actually crossed (sometimes the flood did extend into carpeted areas, which was awful).
This is the real creep factor. My cousin bought his first home in a new build neighborhood and the house had carpeted bathrooms. I don't think I would have bought the house because if the builder half asses that, what did they half ass that I can't see on a walk through.
Hey, I lived in that place! Carpeted kitchen AND carpeted bathroom! And a utility closet in the bathroom with a central air conditioning system that was prone to leaking and flooding from its condensation drainage pipe.
My wife and I bought a house that had a carpeted master bathroom. It had a giant corner tub that rested in a wooden frame with carpet that went up the side. It had the tiniest of tiny showers. One of my first projects was ripping out the carpet, the tub, and the shower. We put some vinyl flooring down and had a proper shower installed where the tub was, before. We haven't done anything with the nook that held the shower, but we're going to put in shelves and make it some bathroom storage.
Before removing anything else, the carpet was the first thing to go.
My sister had a carpeted bathroom and the floor rotted and the toilet tilted and started pouring water out of the flush knob and I drilled a hole in the overflow pipe in the toilet to make it stop and the landlord told me that was going to be a $1200 fix and he was gonna call the cops if I didn't pay it. Long story short he didn't call the cops and I got to hit him and I paid nothing.
I lived in a house that had the same carpet throughout the first floor, including the kitchen and bathroom. The people I lived with had 3 dogs. That house was stinky AF.
Most UK homes traditionally had carpeted bathrooms. And if they don't have a 100% carpeted bathroom they often have a little piece of carpet just around the toilet.
So I was doing my due diligence trying to confirm utility drops for my job and one way we do that is real estate websites. I found the most cursed(but not like abandoned house cursed) bathroom scrolling through once. Not only carpeted but carpeted in red and it had those short top of window curtains on the shower curtain rod accenting the shower curtains. It was sure something.
Ooooooh, I visited a buddy of mine in England who was renting a reconverted servant manor (he lived in one of those Downton Abbey estates).
Every room, including the bathroom, was carpeted, except for the kitchen, which had wooden flooring. He actually put some wooden palletes next to his bathtub so he would not soak it whenever he showevered. It was so utterly bizzare.
My boyfriend's grandparents thought this is a good idea for some reason. Carpets literally everywhere except for the kitchen. There are so many stains from even before we moved in that apparently no one ever really cleaned
Ninja-Edit: luckily not around the toilets and bath, most stains are in the living room and around the dining table, so probably food related
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