Dumb Poll

[pixy0stix]

Let's see if people actually like shag carpet in the bathroom

[puppylove64]

I do love a good shaggy rug in the bathroom. I love soft rugs contrasting the cold hard floor

[lilac05]

I grew up with dark blue shag carpet in the bathroom.

My friend and I loved to make “potions” in the little paper Dixie cups using powder, shampoo/conditioner, lotions, makeup…whatever we could get out hands on.

I don’t even want to think about how gross that carpet must have been, even with my mom being very particular about keeping the house clean.

[HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan]

This is some kind of spooky season 🤮 horror movie.

[jlt19]

Like a removable, washable rug, right? Because ANY kind of carpet in the bathroom is gross.

[bsp36]

Our bathrooms when we moved into this house were half carpet half linoleum. So glad when we could finally get rid of that!!!

[sadlebred]

I had carpet in the "sink" room in a bathroom in a house right after college. Thankfully the toilet/shower room had tile. No carpet of any kind in the bathroom--just a small bath mat.

[dragon's breath]

Ew. I knew someone in a duplex where both the bathroom and the kitchen had shag carpet, but the living room was hardwood. So gross, and so backwards. Since it was a rental, she couldn't do anything about it.

[VillainV]

Bath mats that get washed weekly? Yes. Wall-to-wall carpeting? Oh hell no.

[loira]

What, no special snowflake option for anyone who might like carpet but not shag? 😂

[cville]

Oct 14, 2023 21:20:17 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan said:

This is some kind of spooky season 🤮 horror movie.

#deadtome

[Jalapeñomel]

No carpet in the bathroom.

[fivechickens]

I love a dumb poll.

Wonder if anyone will seriously vote ‘yes’.

[SusanBAnthony]

We looked at a cute house with brick patterned linoleum in the kitchen. Not my style but it's fine, can be changed whenever.

We got there in person and it was brick patterned CARPET. 🙁

The house was still great so we made an offer but we didn't get it.

We looked at another house that also had a carpeted kitchen. They had just put in NEW carpet. I asked the realtor why and she said because the kitchen was an addition over a crawl space the floor got cold so the owners liked having carpet. We passed on that one lol.

[blondemoment123]

Oct 14, 2023 21:36:44 GMT -5 jlt19 said:

Like a removable, washable rug, right? Because ANY kind of carpet in the bathroom is gross.

I'm hoping so.
But no to both options!

[cattledogkisses]

When we were house hunting this past summer we looked at multiple houses that had wall-to-wall carpeting in the bathrooms. Just thinking about the stuff that was probably in that carpeting made me want to vom.

[plutosmoon]

I hate carpet so much that one of my bedrooms currently has a plywood floor. The carpets I ripped up were so gross, I can't imagine what gets trapped in a bathroom carpet, no carpet of any kind in the bathroom.

[maudefindlay]

Carpet in the shower, oh yeah!

[pixy0stix]

Oct 14, 2023 21:36:44 GMT -5 jlt19 said:

Like a removable, washable rug, right? Because ANY kind of carpet in the bathroom is gross.

Wall to wall! (To the windows... to the wall!)

[rosiebear]

My friends rented an apartment with wall to wall carpet in the bathroom. They found actual mushrooms growing in it.

[annieh22]

A relative had carpeting on the bathroom walls. Walls! Like if you had paneling on the bottom half of the wall, but it was carpet.

Let me tell ya…lots of odd choices made in that house.

[k3am]

I don’t even like rugs in the bathroom. The closest I come is bath bats that come down for showers and are hung up immediately after. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[midwestmama]

In the master bathroom in the house I grew up in (which was built in the 70s), there was carpet in the shower & toilet room. (The bathroom was split up like an old motel/hotel design, where the sink was technically "in" the bedroom, and then the toilet and tub/shower combo were in a separate room.

I'd be ok with a washable shag rug, but never regular carpet in the bathroom.

[mrsukyankee]

I live in England. We had to replace shag carpet in a bathroom. Ugh. I don't mind a shaggy washable rug (aka bath mat) in the bathroom.

[chickadee77]

I don't care for *shag* carpet, and certainly prefer hard floors.

But I grew up in a cold climate where low-pile carpet was common in bathrooms. (It was also common to steam clean regularly) so it's not an immediate ICK for me, but it isn't something I would choose for my own home.

[Bad Dingo]

We have various plush and shag-like bath mats that we change out regularly. I can't imagine having actual carpeted bathroom floors (or walls!).

When we had to redo our bathroom after a leaky toilet ruined the floor, we put in heated floors and they are the best thing ever. Particularly since that bathroom doesn't have any heat source.

[basilosaurus]

My grandparents had a mix. It was quite a long room. Toilet/bidet room had tile. Then a soft, but short pile, for the rest. The a bath mat on top of the carpet, washed frequently, in front of their well sealed (had a steam function) and well ventilated shower so the room never fogged up. They also rarely closed the door between that and the bedroom to one side and large closet to the other, so there was also lots of air flow. I'm pretty sure the whole bedroom suite was bigger than some of my apartments.

It wouldn't be my preference, but if you're going to have carpet I think they did the best they could to make it not nasty.

Carpet on walls?! Why?!!

[circa1978]

I can't even believe I'm going to admit this, but whatever. Our house was built in 1982, and the outer area of the master bathroom (which is easily the size of a bedroom, about 15x15) has carpet in some areas, including a carpeted step up to a sunken tub (that we do not use). The shower and toilet are in a different room with hard surfaces. I was going to rip the carpet out ASAP, but the entire house needed to be done; we've painted every wall and molding, replaced the entire electrical system, the roof, the doors, landscaping/fence, all the flooring on two other floors, gutted the kitchen to the studs, and gutted other 2.5 bathrooms so far so...yeah, that carpet is still there. It's the part of the house we're least likely to have other people see, and you have to prioritize. I didn't want to pull it up and put down something "temporary" before a big rehab because that seemed wrong from an ecological standpoint. You might have made other decisions. 🤷‍♀️ Maybe this is the year, or maybe we'll just send up selling it and making it someone else's problem. (The space being so big means that the bids on the remodel were around $45K pre-pandemic.)

[cattledogkisses]

Oct 15, 2023 10:35:20 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

My friends rented an apartment with wall to wall carpet in the bathroom. They found actual mushrooms growing in it.

Aside from other potential for grossness in a bathroom, I think this would be one of my major concerns.  Bathrooms are damp environments, and carpet seems like a perfect medium for growing mold. 

I could be projecting though, because we just gutted our bathrooms due to mold issues.  (They weren't carpeted, just old plaster walls that soaked up all the moisture because the previous owners never installed a bathroom vent fan.)