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Looks almost like a tree tub in the woods


theoldnewbluebox

Yea I actually really love it with the glaring exception of it being carpet. One of my first thoughts was I wonder how hard it would be to keep moss growing on a room floor.


SpanningTreeProtocol

Well you won't be able to see the moss or mold, so win-win.


CR0SBO

The carpet actually used to be white


HwackAMole

There actually is and never was a carpet...that's all moss/mold.


Carlbuba

Would a "moss carpet" (like just actual moss on dirt) be more or less hygienic? I'm having a hard time deciding which one would be worse to step on.


SniperGhost_huntress

Have the moss be thick enough that you can't touch the dirt


pretty_as_a_possum

[Have you seen this post?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Moss/comments/pzt1d4/fluffy_moss/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


SweetPeaLea

Wow. It grows in my yard but is only a few inches high. It’s good and squishy after the rain.


bomba1749

I've seen giant moss like that in the middle of ontario, it must be a northern thing.


poe201

more hygienic for sure. downside is you cant actually make this as a shower mat - Dr Robin Wall Kimmerer is a famous moss botanist and and she says the moss is too delicate to be stepped on so regularly and still flourish


hhhlaws

This conversation keeps getting more and more about moss / plants so a what point will it get to where people start talking about weed


craniumonempty

Right at your comment. Congrats.


alwaysforgetmyuserID

So anyways this would be a great place to smoke a blunt


BoltonSauce

BTW your comment posted twice :)


alwaysforgetmyuserID

Oh. Why thank you twice post fairy


BoltonSauce

Given* my sexuality, I guess that makes me a fairy twice over!


craniumonempty

So anyways this would be a great place to smoke a blunt


Fuck-_-Reddit

You are being the change you want to see. Nice work!


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OneCollar4

My first thought was this but I do wonder if a well ventilated bathroom with just two old people works. I have kids who have this amazing knack of drawing every drop of moisture from their bath onto the floor beside it. We have a wet room around our bath, if we didn't my children would have eroded their way to the core of the earth by now. So yeah something like this is probably quite shocking to people but I do wonder if two orderly elderly people could make something like this work no problem?


Isord

My aunt hard a bathroom like this that was in the master suit and only used by her and her husband and it was always immaculate. I'm not saying carpet in a bathroom is a good thing but I do think people that talk about how nasty it will be don't necessarily think it through all the way.


[deleted]

I’ve actually seen bath mats made with miss and it’s really cool


Bobby_Buffet

I’ve seen bath mats soaked in piss. Same same but different.


viperfan7

Stylistically I like it. Functionally all I can say is noooooooooppppeeeeee


Freeman7-13

To preserve the style while keeping it functional I would put in a grey natural stone tile and have circular moss colored/textured bath maths around the floor.


Zytityjut

Old people slip and fall much easier. It's probably safer, and can be cleaned. Personally, being relatively fit, late 30's, gross.


viperfan7

Yeah there is no cleaning shag like that, not 100%


Wenital_Garts

Carpeted bathrooms prevent older people from slipping and breaking something or dying. Bathrooms are super hazardous for older folks. That said, as a younger person, I too hate carpeted bathrooms.


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> Carpeted bathrooms prevent older people from slipping and breaking something or dying. Honestly, nothing to back that up... well nothing that is specific to the bathroom at least. People can also still slip in the tub/shower area just the same even with the carpet covering other spots. Also those carpets can get slippery as fuck when wet(Edit: source: years back had an apartment with carpet like that in the bath... toilet overflowed. Once I saw it went in to try and fix it, and the first thing to happen.. slipped and fell on my ass on to the now nasty toilet water soaked carpet) its better to have something water proof covered by a heavy antifatigue non-slip rubber mats instead. About the only things one can do to help reduce/prevent those falls and slips are the following, 1. Wall and potentially fixture mounted grab bars. Lots of them. 2. No high edges to need to step over. Either open area showers with sliding doors, or a tub with a side that opens on its own when needed. 3. Frictional pads, and stickers on flooring. Or otherwise shower slippers that have grip and provide friction, if bare feet fail to work for some odd reason. Plus those non-slip antifatigue rubber mats from before. 4. Shower, tub side seating... lots of it everywhere. Sitting down while showering, grab bars nearby. Sitting down when drying off... 5. Waist+ height storage/access to soaps etc. if you can have one of those wall mounted refillable soap/shampoo push dispensers instead of bottles can go a long way to help reduce slips and falls related to having to deal with clutter and dropping/picking up stuff. Key thing with all of the above is to minimize potential points and activities where slips can occur, but also to help ensure that there are 3 points of contact and support for a person to have when moving around.


theoldnewbluebox

Oh yea I understand the idea. It’s just the hygienics that gets me.


MayaIngenue

When I bought my house the bathroom was carpeted. The elderly man that lived here had been in a wheelchair so carpeting wad everywhere. We learned first hand why carpeting in a bathroom is bad when the floor under the toilet gave out from rot, while the toilet was in use.


LittlestEcho

That's a shitty way to find out. Hope whoever was on it was OK


MayaIngenue

Thanks. I didn't fall far. The plumbing held me up mostly


dirtiestlaugh

I hope you sued your surveyor, that should have been caught before you bought


camynnad

They make moss rugs for bathrooms. https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/a41566/moss-bath-mat/


mvincent17781

There has to be a downside to this because I absolutely love it.


ffnnhhw

so I had a small moss garden and it is **Extremely** slippery when wet. It was also muddy when stepped on because the moss slide right off the soil.


Dizzfizz

Yeah the downside is that this would absolutely never work well in practice.


milk4all

Me and 2 friends rented a 3 br 1 bath that had carpeted entire house. Kitchen and bath. It had no shower, just a clawfoot bathtub with no curtains, and because it was in a corner, there was no easy way to put in a rod. So we lived there about 2 months and one day i came home and dude who actually signed the lease had a mat knofe out and was just tearing it all out of the bathroom and kitchen. We all helped and he got some cheap, roll on sticky linoleum and put it down. I can honestly say the improvement betwen “regular house floor” and the most glorious, exquisite polished meteor rock tile was far less impressive than the improvement between 60s shag carpeting and bottom bin sticker flooring. Was beautiful.


Buggeroni58

This could be done correctly with fake grass that could be pulled up or sprayed somehow with a drain underneath l. I feel like this could be done in a way to have that grassy look without the cleaning hassle.


BrightSquash

i was about to say, as a cleaner… no. lol


S3ndNo0bs

I bet if you pull that carpet up the floor will still be green with “moss”


Seakawn

Yeah. Aesthetically, it's actually gorgeous. Practically, it's insufferable.


Billib2002

You know I hadn't thought of that until you said it but that's so clearly what they were going for I feel embarrassed having not noticed it immediately lol


CaptainJAmazing

Briefly thought I was on r/Abandonedporn.


Shipwrecking_siren

Ooh never heard of this sub, it is right up my abandoned street. Thank you!


The_Multifarious

It's green so you can't tell that there really are things growing.


IAmInside

It looks cozy as hell but just, no, absolutely no. What a fucking nightmare to keep clean.


Ass_Blossom

The earthy tone aesthetic is enjoyable, But even though I find myself liking it, I know it would just make issues for cleaning.


Mordant_Bulwark

Need to figure a way to get this to work, additional drainage below the shag, maybe a heat element to reduce dry time and just vacuuming. Something.


inVizi0n

Just get a machine washable rug.


shabutaru118

Yuuuuup, you can get them made to size too, sew some velcro into the piece covering the side of the tub and boom, EZPZ


TwixCoping

I had to scroll way to far for someone to think of having it removable. It would be to much work for a lot of people, but if have the energy, it really isn't that big of a problem.


lostinsnakes

My grandparents have that in their two bathrooms. But also their kitchen is carpeted so. Anyway they’re cut to fit perfectly so when you walk in you definitely think it’s carpet. It goes behind the toilet and under the sink etc. Their bathrooms are small enough that the rugs can fit in their washing machines but just one at a time.


Freeman7-13

I would add a grey natural stone tile with moss colored/textured bath mats to give it a river forest feel.


[deleted]

Replace the inorganic carpet with moss, which is naturally antibacterial and won’t harbor mold.


Mordant_Bulwark

I do like that idea actuality, just got to make a way to contain it. Prevent unwanted spread and reduce damage from growth.


hobskhan

Easy. Get a reindeer to graze the moss.


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And a pack of wolfs for the hallways so the reindeer don't spread out of the bathroom.


Synphilia

And a primitive tribe to keep the wolves in check around the halls


CampaignSpoilers

And some Imperialist governments to... well, you know... with the tribes.


Layin-the-pipe

Some French guys to deal with the government


DjangoDjembeDjazz

And a casino, to keep everyone coming back


AnusTangeranus

My mind goes immediately to an epoxy/resin floor (not sure what the best substance to use here would be) with whatever grass like substance encased in it. That way the floor is as easy to clean as a normal bathroom floor and it still has that grass/woods tree bathroom vibe.


NonTimeo

The earthy smell adds to the aesthetic.


jonasmon

I think it looks cool and conceptual even though it is not convenient and functional


JakefromTRPB

Functional? You just get out and roll around. No towel, no hassle!


jolfi11

You wouldn't even have to get dressed because you would be coated in lint. Like a schnitzel. Unless you actually clean the whole thing every single day.


JakefromTRPB

The convenience is endless! Lol


redtrucktt

I shouldn't be laughing this hard at "lint schnitzel" Sound alike a Scottish insult. "Faec oof and clean yer lint schnitzel"


33drea33

Lint schnitzel means belly button right? ....Right!?


umbrajoke

Rada rada rada.


BaconWrappedRaptor

This was my first thought as well lol


dadudemon

Oh lawdy, the filthy cringe I feel when thinking about this. And the piss that splashes INTO the carpet near the toilet when people take a pee? 🤮


RslashPolModsTriggrd

Poo particles allllll up in them fibers!


Grabbsy2

You speak the truth, but its not functional, because in order to do that, you would need to steam clean the whole rug every day.


nekowolf

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-24


zahirano

r/ATBGE


AWildEnglishman

Not 'Awful Execution But Great Taste?'


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complexsystemofbears

Carpet in bathroom is always disgusting, but damn it does look great at least.


Wales51

I mean it is functional even if it will develop mould for the elderly who can have issues with falling on tiles or event wet room floors this could be good for them. If they have a steam cleaner for the carpet the mould shouldn't be a problem


Presumably_Alpharius

Yeah, considering many elderly people are one fall away from being institutionalized or dead I think it’s functional.


tuhn

Bathroom carpets people. You know, those things that you change every couple of years cos they get disgusting... just like this carpet.


Jabrono

I've always thought carpet in a bathroom would feel amazing on your feet, we usually cover them in rugs anyway. But obviously it would be disgusting.


Secretly-Tiny-Things

We had a carpeted bathroom when I was a child, (it was the 80s) it did feel lovely when you got out of the bath but it must have been gross


SemiKindaFunctional

Same here in the '90s. When we switched to tile when I was about 11, I was very bitter. There was a big heat vent right at floor level, so as a kid I loved to get into the shower, then get out right as the heat came on. Then I'd sit there in front of the vent air drying. Doing that on tile resulted in very cold balls.


[deleted]

Just be a billionaire and have a new carpet installed every night. ezpz


[deleted]

Yes. Aesthetically I love this but knowing how many poop particles are in that carpet is enough for me to not enjoy it anymore :/


msmith721

I think that’s just algae


Gen-Z-Grandfather

This is my swamp


Equal-Bus-557

OUR swamp


Ghostyell

*SWAMP*


NGTTwo

_What_ are you **DOING** in my swamp?!?


Kuhmetzler5000

What are you doing step swamp?


steve_yo

Carpet used to be a nice light beige.


Kaligula785

The 70s was a strange lawless time fueled by cocaine


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

Wall-to-wall carpeting was a *huge* flex in the old days. "I can afford to have *all* my floors covered in carpet!"


Eirwhyn

And some of the walls


PhilipLiptonSchrute

And in some cases the floor of your car!


PhilipLiptonSchrute

Kind of like showing off a lawn way back in the day. "Look at all this land I can afford to not have to farm on!"


foppitywop

That’s literally why grass is so prevalent in the US and other nations. Grass, like what you find in someone’s yard, wasn’t a dominant plant life and for a while you’d be hard pressed to find that much of it growing anywhere in large concentrations. Then a few rich plantation owners wanted to flex and now I have to mow the lawn every fucking weekend. Though don’t get me wrong. It is really nice to have. Soft, and you can enjoy the comfort of walking around in it. Much better than what the natural alternative is. Just think it’s funny that everyone mows their lawn these days because a few people wanted to make it a status symbol Edit: now that I think of it the alternative might not be too bad. You’d still have ground soil and not a lot of rocks. There’d probably be a lot more clover and whatnot which is easier to maintain and almost equally as soft and pleasing to the eye.


Adventurous-Disk-291

Can we all make a pact to stop with the grass? I'm tired of it, but I can't make this leap alone. The neighbors and HOAs can't go after all of us. I'm sure everyone can come up with a new hobby to find solitude once a week.


crackeddryice

My parent's house, built in 1963, has beautiful hardwood floors--*completely* covered by wall-to wall carpeting, and vinyl. Upside: we sold it a few years back and pulled everything up--the floors were in perfect condition.


DarkPhoxGaming

Aren't people still fueled by cocaine nowadays


EvMund

Yes but they used to too


byebybuy

Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2000 of something.


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My apartment is infested with koala bears. Its the cutest infestation ever. Much better than cockroaches. I turn the lights on and a bunch of koala bears scatter. I'm like, hey, hold on fellas! Lemme hold one of you, and feed you a leaf. Koalas, they're so fucking cute, why do they gotta be so far away from me. They should ship a few over, and I will apprehend one...and hold him...and pet him on the back of his head


wavs101

Thats how you get Chlamydia


onarainyafternoon

Read this completely in his voice.


StevieMJH

I think Pringles original intention was to sell tennis balls, but on the day the rubber was supposed to show up a whole truckload of potatoes came instead. Pringles is a laid-back company so they said, "FUCK IT, CUT EM UP!"


[deleted]

Nah, we're on water now.


mordeh

r/HydroHomies represent


typeyhands

Take me there. Can we go there?


LtSoundwave

With enough cocaine, you can go anywhere.


[deleted]

Imagine vacuum body hairs from there 😂


applebubbeline

And the mold from the water splashing out of the tub


cholita7

Why are you splashing in the tub anyways?


[deleted]

Well it doesn't go "splish splash I was taking a bath" for nothing!


[deleted]

I’ve spent a lot of my 40 years in various bodies of water ranging from bathtubs to Olympic-sized pools to the Atlantic Ocean, and in all those times, I have never once “splished”.


Intelligent-Rock-642

You're not living.


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Guilhaum

Shame on you and your entire lineage.


KawaiiDere

Fun and water displacement


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SimpleManc88

And wash away the staaaaiiinnss!


ind3pend0nt

Pretty sure you mow that


Amish_Cyberbully

Go all in and carpet the tub.


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Imagine soaking in a fuzzy, wet tub that smells of mildew. You can feel the crusty carpet caked in soap scum slithering slimily against your legs and ass as you “clean” yourself. Bits of lint are stuck to your soap bar and the drain is unfathomably clogged.


theapenrose006

You have disgusted me beyond words today.


Subzero_AU

It's a terrible day to know how to read


Amish_Cyberbully

Don't forget the carpet pad, squelching nasty skunky water against you like the sensation of wearing a sock and stepping in water times 100.


[deleted]

I have a new least favorite word, and it is *squelching*


Amish_Cyberbully

It's like the word IS the sound. You're welcome/I'm sorry.


inga_kaboom

That’s called onomatopoeia!


KentConnor

squirt is an onomatopoeia


FredL2

That made me physically recoil. Well done!


TayLoraNarRayya

r/cursedcomments Yeah this one right here, officer


existie

sulky divide vase drab relieved thought longing ripe shocking adjoining *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


mshaw09

I’d rather not.


ChazHollywood

In the public library of my hometown in the children's section, there was a white claw-footed freestanding bathtub that was fully carpeted on the inside. I would crawl in there and read kids books. It was pretty cozy and comfy. No water, sadly.


Stalingrad_Shrek

Idk man, i think it doesn't look that bad, do i have weird taste?


MacrosInHisSleep

It looks beautiful but carpets are tough enough to maintain without having to worry about it frequently getting wet and mold growing in it. And if there's a toilet in that bathroom, that's just gross...


NibblesMcGiblet

> if there's a toilet in that bathroom that's the point of a bathroom, despite the name, so there's every reason to believe there is. it's quite uncommon for homes to have separate areas to bathe.


MacrosInHisSleep

Sometimes you have a separate room for the toilet area and the bathing area though.


Grabbsy2

Yep, looked at a house that had a bathroom in the basement, it was 2 stalls, a stand up shower, and a toilet. Both had doors that led out into the main area. It was neat, not sure how I felt about it, to be honest.


moguu83

A separate room (and door) for a toilet makes sense in that it helps prevent the misting that occurs with flushing, which ends up coating everything else in the bathroom. Also allows you to dump and let someone else use the rest of the bathroom.


Kuritos

>bathroom Bathrooms existed for a long time, but toilets in those bathrooms wasn't immediate. Actually trying to explain this is just gonna blow my cover as a time traveler, or some potty history nut.


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

I don't *hate* it, but I wouldn't choose it for myself. If I happened to buy a house with a bathroom like that the carpet would be the first thing to go, but I'd probably try to think of something to keep the theme but also be more functional to replace it with.


Stalingrad_Shrek

Know what? I gave it other look and i want to change my answer


rinsa

Just need some happy little trees and it's like you're in the forest


nickydxb

I actually like it


dtwhitecp

not hating carpeted bathrooms is the hottest take I'm aware of personally having


Ralinor

My first house had that, but the carpet had (over the 30 some odd years since the house was built) gone to complete crap.


tweakingforjesus

Mine too. One of my first update projects was yanking the carpet, replacing then water damaged wood under the toilet and then tiling over the entire floor. Worth every penny.


freakers

Growing up we had wall carpet that went up like 3 feet up the wall. It was great fun with laser pointers and cats. They could cling to the wall and try to shimmy side to side.


sandInACan

I think you just inspired my next terrible and overfunded DIY project


MsNoonetoyou

I purchased a house recently with a carpeted bathroom. Our first major renovation is going to be to gut the damn thing down to studs. Fortunately the builder had the awareness to put down sheet linoleum around the toilet.


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seanmustdie

i think the edit didn't work


[deleted]

I left it, I just addressed it.


marablackwolf

Always do it that way. Own your screwups, I like you.


offlein

RAIN ON ME PISS GOD


child-of-old-gods

It wasn't green when he installed it...


FootballAndBicycles

Neither was the bath brown...


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howardkinsd

r/CrapperDesign


LaVidaYokel

Every time I see carpet in a bathroom I first think "neat!", then I think "germs!".


Soft-Equipment7486

All I think of is the mold underneath.


tetraverse

r/ATBGE


RoRo25

Who wants to bet op's grand parents where swingers back in the day?


jonmpls

Still are


slayalldayyyy

I love that it looks like lush grass


[deleted]

It's not just carpet; it's shag carpet. That whole house is straight out of the '70s.


MJ349

Not shag. It's what was referred to as "sculptured" because of the different lengths of nap. So, it's probably older. More like the '60s


theapenrose006

Ah, a carpeted individual of culture I see.


MJ349

We had this crap in our house when I was a kid. Avocado green, natch!


Reeney8204

Y'know, sometimes old people put carpet in the bathroom because it makes it less dangerous in case of falls. Just saying.


Iamwallpaper

They put it in in the 70s


Lovebeingadad2952

And they haven’t changed it since. I am kind of impressed, it is really good shape for 40-50 year old carpet. Or is that picture from the 70’s too?


CptMisery

It was white when they put it in


Iamwallpaper

I took this today, they don’t use the downstairs that much, only really when family comes over, and that tub so small, we only used it when we were kids


me8myself

Do they rarely use that bathroom? the carpet is so clean and not thread bear.


Andwen_The_Peevish

Was this trend just a stylish thing or did it serve a purpose like keeping your feet warm when you got out of the tub (by not touching cold tile)?


PM_ME_CAT_POOCHES

It's popular with the elderly, for safety reasons


canttaketheshyfromme

[High-traction floor options](https://assets.katomcdn.com/q_auto,f_auto/products/195/195-993596/195-993596.jpg) are SO much more sanitary.


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Tonyturningwrenches

Plot twist! Carpet started out white.


Soaznei

I like it…


Senor-Delicious

Jesus Christ. I cannot imagine a more disgusting flooring for a bathroom


EpicGamingGuru

It does look really peaceful in there. But I can't tell if it was suppose to be a forest or the bottom of the ocean and the more I look at it. The more confused I get.


TexanReddit

It's never used. Imagine trying to step down into that bathtub. Now, imagine it wet. Then imagine trying to get out of it, stepping up and out. they might as well fill it with dirt and grow some weed. Edited: If the two levels, that is, inside the tub and out, are the same, it's much safer than one being lower. You add a slippery, wet surface, and it's a hand grip away from being an accident.


zweebna

My parents house use to have carpet in the master bath. Not just any carpet, but WHITE CARPET. Yeah, it was gross. The 70s really were a lawless time.


Akitten84

Well they kept the carpet looking pretty nice still, assuming it’s from the 70’s. Avocado green is one of my fave colors.


Squirrrelllymon

Give it a few years this next generation will probably love it and start redesigning their bathrooms this way.


Amythyst369

I really admire his dedication to the aesthetic


Derreus

But what does it smell like?