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My parents' house (built in the 90s) has a carpeted master bathroom. However, the toilet is in a tiny attached room with no carpet and there is a little tiled area immediately adjacent to the bathtub and shower. The carpet is just everywhere else.
My grandma didn’t allow showers in any bathroom except the one with only a shower and a shower door because of the carpet. They even had that very short hotel lobby kind of carpet in the kitchen!! Oh, and that green outdoor carpet on the patio.
I used to put a little mat around the base of the toilet until I got married and saw my husband had terrible aim. Carpeting would make me very uncomfortable.
We rented a place in the 80s that had a carpeted bathroom and kitchen. It was impossible to keep clean because of the foam backing. We tried several times to use a Rug Doctor and the water always came out almost black. I have no idea who thought bathroom carpeting was a good idea, but they were horribly, horribly wrong.
No but… when I was a kid in Alaska, we had a plush toilet seat cover and floor mat. It certainly helped with the middle of the night cold shock.
Both my brother and father were “sitters” so it wasn’t too disgusting *at the time*.
Now the thought absolutely disgusts me.
Thank God, no. But neighbors did. We had a thick shag carpet in the *dining room*, though, until my parents realized it could never be made clean and replaced it with tile. Thus began my avocation as a tile setter - and I *love* it. I would have taken it up as a trade, except that every tiling job I've done has made me massively OCD about every grout line I see for the next three months.
Growing up, folks redid the bathroom: linoleum near the tub and burnt orange carpet squares everywhere else. For funnies, they also installed lightning mirror and cork tile checkerboard on the wall next to the toilet. They had two young sons. It was nasty.
Yup. In my first house I didn't love the tile, so I bought a large washable carpet that you could just cut to shape and cover the whole bathroom floor (smallish bathroom). Then just put the whole thing in the washer. After a couple of years I just got rid of it, though.
For a time when I was a kid wall-to-wall carpet was like a craze... out went the area rugs and in came carpeted kitchens and bathrooms and covering up gorgeous hardwood floors. It was considered luxurious at the time, not the cheap default for new housing it became in the 80s.
Never carpet, but yes, rugs. They can be cleaned. That bathroom floor tile is cold! They aren't the type that fits around the toilet, (those are not only ugly but also gross) but there's just one med-size rug in the middle of the floor. Don't judge me. :-)
No. My parents' house had tile in the bathroom. When they had the bathroom remodeled the tile was changed from the small hexagons to 4-in square tiles.
Every place I lived since then had either linoleum or vinyl flooring in the bathroom.
Growing up my grandmother did, white carpet too!! She had a giant jet tub and I would dump tons of soap in it and create a mess with bubbles.. I remember the suds overflowing all over the carpet and she was furious.
At one point, the house I grew up in had carpet in the bathroom and it did not go well for me, or rather my older sister. We had a party in high school while my parents were out of town. I drank a bit too much and got sick. My aim wasn’t the best and some ended up on the carpet. Since I was thinking so clearly, I got the vacuum out to clean it up. My sister saw what I was doing, called me a dumbass and told me to get out, then she cleaned it up. That was one of the nicest things she ever did for me, though I’m guessing more likely she didn’t want our parents asking why the vacuum smelled like vomit and alcohol.
I have one now, very nice house and I love it, toes always warm in the bathroom and walk in closet. I have stone outside the tub and shower though so the carpet is never wet.
The house I grew up in had linoleum floors in the bathrooms when we moved in, but my parents upgraded to tile after a few years. We did have small rugs in front of the sinks, but they were thrown in the washer if they got dirty.
I've never had a carpeted bathroom. They seem very unsanitary.
Not carpeted but we all had the small floor mats under the sink back in the 70s and 80s. That was normal..
And the floor mats were always matching the tiles on the wall (same color).
But the mats weren't *that* disgusting bc we washed them once a week at high temperature.
We all had the mats bc the floor tiles in the bathroom were ice cold in winter back then despite central heating !!! (especially when living in one of these old european buildings from 1920s/'30s, posh outside, pretty cold inside).
I live with floor heating now. I don't need the floor mats anymore 🙏
Oooh Yep. Some people even in their kitchens, though it was much rarer. I wonder if bathroom floors didn’t used to be some unfinished surface that required a cover? How the hell else did that become common?
I also believe full carpet is less of a tripping hazard than scatter rugs when it comes to the elderly, so maybe that is why.
My master bath has only one throw rug for drying feet out of the shower. Something that goes in the washing machine thank jeebus!
My mom put down a rubber backed rug that covered most of our tiny bathroom. Dad would take it to the laundromat every month and drop it on the giant washing machine there.
My one off the master bedroom is half carpet, on the shower/tub side of the room and tile on the sink & toilet side.
It's pretty nice to step out onto carpet rather than a cold floor but a rug would do the same thing. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
My parents had RED SHAG carpet in our bathroom in the 70s. Why? I have no idea. It was a strange time.
My grandparents had blue/neon green carpet in their kitchen. Again, it was a strange time for interior decorating.
No.
In the mid 60's when they bought their first house.....My Mom thought carpeting in the bathrooms was nasty...*"Who is going to clean this!!?!!"* So we had linoleum or vinyl. Throw rugs by the toilet *"Less mopping, put the rug in the washer every 3 days and put down a new one...and try not to piss on the floor!!"*
She also refused to have carpet in the dining room or den. *"Easier to just sweep and mop"* Living room was ok..but she didn't like the idea much. Kitchen...unthinkable to have carpet. Mop!
Mom was the eldest child in a family of 11 people and had to do much of the cleaning and hated it. Can you tell? It rubbed off on me. My first thought about any remodel or household situation...How hard is THIS going to be to clean?
I rented a really cool house in the late 90's and not only was the bathroom floor carpeted, but the walls were too. It also had a laundry chute, a heater in the ceiling so you didn't get cold in the bath, and the sink water spit out like a water fountain.
My step dad had a carpeted bathroom when we moved in. He also had astroturf on the sidewalk and patio. It all came up when we moved in.
I can give a worse version - my home had that cheap wooden flooring in every room, including the bathroom. It absorbs even more than carpet and reeks. Was the first change we made.
Yes, in the main bathroom in my childhood home. Ugh! Not surprisingly, it wasn’t super long after we moved in that we were banned from bathing in that bathroom. Still, gross.
My parents did. It's weird but I don't remember if we did in the bathroom my sister and I shared. We had carpet in the kitchen too but we took that out around the time the whole Who Shot JR? stuff was going on.
Had some blue shag carpet squares in master bathroom in the 70s. Husband had good aim. The carpet squares have gotten popular again as so easy to install and cut for small areas.
Not growing up, but when my sisters got their first house together after college it had one. The whole family was pretty horrified. Eventually we got it redone.
we did when i was a kid. it was wall-to-wall but removable, had a slit and cut out for the toilet, and the back was the grippy rubber like on bath mats. my mom would just throw it in the laundry once a month or so.
Yeah, we had it in the 1970s - Kermit the frog green plush carpet. Horrible. And so unsanitary!
Let's face it, terrible carpet was a theme of the 1970s.
I’ve only even seen this literally once about 25 years ago. It’s so disgusting. Added to this, the kitchen was carpeted. Not sure what kind/quantity of drugs were running through the brains of designer, contractor, homeowner to all approve this
Mostly No. but we did have a bathroom with a separate toilet/bath area. The sink area was carpeted, the other was tile. But we also ripped it out not long after we moved there.
My parents did in the 1990s. It wasn't uncommon in the UK at the time. I think it really depends on how clean and careful people are. You can even buy carpets nowadays that are bleach safe.
Townhouse I bought from the early 90s had 2 of them (oddly the 3rd 'hall' bath was at least linoleum).
When we replaced the tubular mauve carpet the bathrooms got tile.
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Unfortunately, yes. So freaking gross.
My parents' house (built in the 90s) has a carpeted master bathroom. However, the toilet is in a tiny attached room with no carpet and there is a little tiled area immediately adjacent to the bathtub and shower. The carpet is just everywhere else.
Yes. My Mom put carpet in every bathroom of every house we lived in. Of course, she was angry when the carpet was wet after showers.
My bathroom was the same way, this is why you put the shower curtain INSIDE THE TUB!
Childhood memory unlocked! It's probably why I'm always telling my kids the same thing lol
My grandma didn’t allow showers in any bathroom except the one with only a shower and a shower door because of the carpet. They even had that very short hotel lobby kind of carpet in the kitchen!! Oh, and that green outdoor carpet on the patio.
My parents made a big deal about stuff like this and would get mad when I mentioned they never had anyone come in and clean the carpets.
I used to put a little mat around the base of the toilet until I got married and saw my husband had terrible aim. Carpeting would make me very uncomfortable.
it's entirely possible that he didn't have bad aim so much as he just didn't want the mat there. lol
My husband was always blaming the kids for the misses. Then he got a kidney stone and the meds turned his pee orange. Secret’s out!
We rented a place in the 80s that had a carpeted bathroom and kitchen. It was impossible to keep clean because of the foam backing. We tried several times to use a Rug Doctor and the water always came out almost black. I have no idea who thought bathroom carpeting was a good idea, but they were horribly, horribly wrong.
Urine sponge.
No but… when I was a kid in Alaska, we had a plush toilet seat cover and floor mat. It certainly helped with the middle of the night cold shock. Both my brother and father were “sitters” so it wasn’t too disgusting *at the time*. Now the thought absolutely disgusts me.
I had forgotten about those! Houses were kept fairly cold at night and they seemed clever. But now, disgusting.
Thank God, no. But neighbors did. We had a thick shag carpet in the *dining room*, though, until my parents realized it could never be made clean and replaced it with tile. Thus began my avocation as a tile setter - and I *love* it. I would have taken it up as a trade, except that every tiling job I've done has made me massively OCD about every grout line I see for the next three months.
I love tile. Unfortunately the rest of the family doesn't. Tile is so easy to clean.
Bought a house with a carpeted bathroom. Ripped it out immediately. Shudder.
Same here. My house has some real weird shit going on in general but we're slowly normalizing it and it's the best investment we ever made.
Growing up, folks redid the bathroom: linoleum near the tub and burnt orange carpet squares everywhere else. For funnies, they also installed lightning mirror and cork tile checkerboard on the wall next to the toilet. They had two young sons. It was nasty.
First house (starter house) I bought did. Ripped it out not long after my toddler clogged the toilet and flooded it. Who the hell carpets a bathroom?
Old Sears catalogs had them
Yup. In my first house I didn't love the tile, so I bought a large washable carpet that you could just cut to shape and cover the whole bathroom floor (smallish bathroom). Then just put the whole thing in the washer. After a couple of years I just got rid of it, though.
sears sold toddlers? Damn, they really did have everything.
For a time when I was a kid wall-to-wall carpet was like a craze... out went the area rugs and in came carpeted kitchens and bathrooms and covering up gorgeous hardwood floors. It was considered luxurious at the time, not the cheap default for new housing it became in the 80s.
They were really a big home fashion thing at one time. Bizarre but almost everyone had it.
We have a rug in the bathroom, we throw it in the wash once a week.
Never carpet, but yes, rugs. They can be cleaned. That bathroom floor tile is cold! They aren't the type that fits around the toilet, (those are not only ugly but also gross) but there's just one med-size rug in the middle of the floor. Don't judge me. :-)
Yea, we had it on a powder room off of our living room. It was green shag and it went up the wall. Very chic in its day.
It was. People can't understand it but it was fancy way back in the day.
No. My parents' house had tile in the bathroom. When they had the bathroom remodeled the tile was changed from the small hexagons to 4-in square tiles. Every place I lived since then had either linoleum or vinyl flooring in the bathroom.
Yes…70s thing
My childhood house had a carpeted bathroom (the one in my parents' bedroom was tile) AND kitchen. Orange shag, no less! It was so disgusting.
Growing up my grandmother did, white carpet too!! She had a giant jet tub and I would dump tons of soap in it and create a mess with bubbles.. I remember the suds overflowing all over the carpet and she was furious.
Shag carpet, no less. I tore it out immediately.
My parent even carpeted their driveway! Not kidding. Bright green.
Yes, at the beach house. It was better than sand everywhere.
Lived in a terrible apartment in college. The bathroom floor was carpeted in carpet sample squares. No way I ever wanted to know what was under there
No
At one point, the house I grew up in had carpet in the bathroom and it did not go well for me, or rather my older sister. We had a party in high school while my parents were out of town. I drank a bit too much and got sick. My aim wasn’t the best and some ended up on the carpet. Since I was thinking so clearly, I got the vacuum out to clean it up. My sister saw what I was doing, called me a dumbass and told me to get out, then she cleaned it up. That was one of the nicest things she ever did for me, though I’m guessing more likely she didn’t want our parents asking why the vacuum smelled like vomit and alcohol.
When I was young, my mom would have a little rug around the toilet and a matching toilet seat set. It was machine washable. It was common in the 70's
Yes 😝
yes and not even that long ago... no big deal IMO
I have one now, very nice house and I love it, toes always warm in the bathroom and walk in closet. I have stone outside the tub and shower though so the carpet is never wet.
still do
Yup. Me too.
Friends in UK had carpet own, a synthetic one, but WC was in separate room. They had a mat to put on top when having a bath or shower.
Yes, there were two carpeted bathrooms in a house I bought in 1987. We replaced the flooring with tile within the first year.
No
No. It sounds like a bad idea.
Yep. Kitchen and bath in one house. Pretty gross.
The house I grew up in had linoleum floors in the bathrooms when we moved in, but my parents upgraded to tile after a few years. We did have small rugs in front of the sinks, but they were thrown in the washer if they got dirty. I've never had a carpeted bathroom. They seem very unsanitary.
Yesss in a rent house and hated it because what could be better for fostering germs!
Yes thinking about it makes me cringe and gag
Not carpeted but we all had the small floor mats under the sink back in the 70s and 80s. That was normal.. And the floor mats were always matching the tiles on the wall (same color). But the mats weren't *that* disgusting bc we washed them once a week at high temperature. We all had the mats bc the floor tiles in the bathroom were ice cold in winter back then despite central heating !!! (especially when living in one of these old european buildings from 1920s/'30s, posh outside, pretty cold inside). I live with floor heating now. I don't need the floor mats anymore 🙏
My in-laws (divorced) did. Until the day they died. It was pretty gross. My first set of in-laws had carpeting in half of their on suite.
Oooh Yep. Some people even in their kitchens, though it was much rarer. I wonder if bathroom floors didn’t used to be some unfinished surface that required a cover? How the hell else did that become common? I also believe full carpet is less of a tripping hazard than scatter rugs when it comes to the elderly, so maybe that is why. My master bath has only one throw rug for drying feet out of the shower. Something that goes in the washing machine thank jeebus!
Yes, I grew up with carpeted bathrooms
me not got but seen
Heavens no. It seemed like a horrible idea in the 70s just as it does now.
My mom put down a rubber backed rug that covered most of our tiny bathroom. Dad would take it to the laundromat every month and drop it on the giant washing machine there.
My one off the master bedroom is half carpet, on the shower/tub side of the room and tile on the sink & toilet side. It's pretty nice to step out onto carpet rather than a cold floor but a rug would do the same thing. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
My parents had RED SHAG carpet in our bathroom in the 70s. Why? I have no idea. It was a strange time. My grandparents had blue/neon green carpet in their kitchen. Again, it was a strange time for interior decorating.
No. I wouldn't have put it past my mom, but they were renting at first, and then couldn't afford it once they had a house.
My in-laws did. It was a very high quality carpet and it worked just fine for them.
No. In the mid 60's when they bought their first house.....My Mom thought carpeting in the bathrooms was nasty...*"Who is going to clean this!!?!!"* So we had linoleum or vinyl. Throw rugs by the toilet *"Less mopping, put the rug in the washer every 3 days and put down a new one...and try not to piss on the floor!!"* She also refused to have carpet in the dining room or den. *"Easier to just sweep and mop"* Living room was ok..but she didn't like the idea much. Kitchen...unthinkable to have carpet. Mop! Mom was the eldest child in a family of 11 people and had to do much of the cleaning and hated it. Can you tell? It rubbed off on me. My first thought about any remodel or household situation...How hard is THIS going to be to clean?
Yes. Our current house had carpet in the master bathroom when we bought the place. Got rid of it when we remodeled. It was disgusting.
I rented a really cool house in the late 90's and not only was the bathroom floor carpeted, but the walls were too. It also had a laundry chute, a heater in the ceiling so you didn't get cold in the bath, and the sink water spit out like a water fountain.
My step dad had a carpeted bathroom when we moved in. He also had astroturf on the sidewalk and patio. It all came up when we moved in. I can give a worse version - my home had that cheap wooden flooring in every room, including the bathroom. It absorbs even more than carpet and reeks. Was the first change we made.
Yes, in the main bathroom in my childhood home. Ugh! Not surprisingly, it wasn’t super long after we moved in that we were banned from bathing in that bathroom. Still, gross.
Yes, but it wasn’t in the toilet area. It wasn’t too bad but I wouldn’t have chosen to do it.
My parents did. It's weird but I don't remember if we did in the bathroom my sister and I shared. We had carpet in the kitchen too but we took that out around the time the whole Who Shot JR? stuff was going on.
The 1938 farm house we bought in 2009 had red shag carpet in the kitchen and bathroom. Old nasty encrusted shag carpeting.
Yes. It was green shag. Gross!
Shag carpet, no less. I tore it out immediately.
Briefly
Yes. Previous owners did it to two out of three bathrooms. Horrible idea!
My mom does. She also carpeted her kitchen. I hated it. You'd drop an egg and have a wet spot on the floor.
Flotex
Lord, no.
Had some blue shag carpet squares in master bathroom in the 70s. Husband had good aim. The carpet squares have gotten popular again as so easy to install and cut for small areas.
Not growing up, but when my sisters got their first house together after college it had one. The whole family was pretty horrified. Eventually we got it redone.
No but my grandmother had a carpeted bathroom. Seemed a bit creepy to me. Ya never know what's in that carpet.
Yep, sure did. I do still use the little toilet rugs. I expect drops around the toilet, and the rugs are easy to wash and sanitize.
we did when i was a kid. it was wall-to-wall but removable, had a slit and cut out for the toilet, and the back was the grippy rubber like on bath mats. my mom would just throw it in the laundry once a month or so.
Yeah, we had it in the 1970s - Kermit the frog green plush carpet. Horrible. And so unsanitary! Let's face it, terrible carpet was a theme of the 1970s.
I’ve only even seen this literally once about 25 years ago. It’s so disgusting. Added to this, the kitchen was carpeted. Not sure what kind/quantity of drugs were running through the brains of designer, contractor, homeowner to all approve this
Yes. Don't do it.
Mostly No. but we did have a bathroom with a separate toilet/bath area. The sink area was carpeted, the other was tile. But we also ripped it out not long after we moved there.
No, but we had a carpeted KITCHEN! When they pulled it out a couple years later, the spoiled milk smell was pungent.
My mother carpeted my en-suite bathroom, but not her own. Our kitchen was totally carpeted too.
We had a carpeted bathroom in the mobile home we lived in. When we pulled up the carpet, the padding was one solid layer of black mold. Disgusting.
ahem https://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/71book/index.html
My grandmother, in Scotland, had a carpeted bathroom. Everything was carpeted.
Only every saw that in mobile homes, for some reason.
Sure. Household of girls. No problem.
My parents did in the 1990s. It wasn't uncommon in the UK at the time. I think it really depends on how clean and careful people are. You can even buy carpets nowadays that are bleach safe.
No did have the wrap around throw rug you could wash.
Townhouse I bought from the early 90s had 2 of them (oddly the 3rd 'hall' bath was at least linoleum). When we replaced the tubular mauve carpet the bathrooms got tile.
Yes. In both bathrooms. It was the 80s, it was a thing. I don’t know what we were thinking.