Why were carpeted bathrooms/kitchens ever a thing?

[Anonymous]

The best thing about cleaning a bathroom is to be able to mop the floor. Why was it popular to carpet a bathroom which I imagine easily smelled mildewed from water getting on the floor and not being able to fully dry? Did you ever live in a home with wall to wall carpeted kitchen or bathroom? What was the appeal and did you like it?

[Anonymous]

What made you think about this?

Yes, our house had carpeted kitchen and bathrooms when I was growing up. It was the 1970s. Indoor/outdoor carpeting. The times. We hated cold feet. This helped, I guess. I still have a cringey reaction to dingy little square tile bathrooms in old houses.

[Anonymous]

I've never seen a carpeted kitchen, but bathrooms yes.

So gross.

[Anonymous]

I've never seen a carpeted kitchen.

I've never see installed carpet in a bathroom - just the fuzzy bathroom rugs which included pieces cut out to go around the toilet. And of course the matching lid color...just pick it all up and pop it in the wash for a quick/easy clean.

[Anonymous]

We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

Sounds groovy! Do you remember using one of those shag carpet rakes? Oh, the things that I would find buried in that carpet....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

Sounds groovy! Do you remember using one of those shag carpet rakes? Oh, the things that I would find buried in that carpet....

Yes, my mom and grandma had shag rakes. We also had a carpet sweeper for the kitchen carpet.

[Anonymous]

Never understood it and for that matter any wtw carpeting. So gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

Sounds groovy! Do you remember using one of those shag carpet rakes? Oh, the things that I would find buried in that carpet....

Yes, my mom and grandma had shag rakes. We also had a carpet sweeper for the kitchen carpet.

Child of the 1970s here!

My chore was to RAKE the shag carpeting...in my bedroom (purple) and in our finished, very groovy basement (orange). The shag rake was two sided with a wide tooth and narrow tooth side and the entire thing was gold with an embedded glitter paints. I played with that thing all the time.

We did have wall to wall carpet in our upstairs dining room and kitchen. Kid bathroom had the tiny 60s tiles but my mom had the three piece matching set; carpet toilet seat cover, bath mat and carpet beneath the toilet with the funky half square cut out so it would fit beneath the toilet.

With the glaring exception of my beloved purple shag carpet in my bedroom, all was positively ugly and revolting and grossly unsanitary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

Sounds groovy! Do you remember using one of those shag carpet rakes? Oh, the things that I would find buried in that carpet....

Yes, my mom and grandma had shag rakes. We also had a carpet sweeper for the kitchen carpet.

Child of the 1970s here!

My chore was to RAKE the shag carpeting...in my bedroom (purple) and in our finished, very groovy basement (orange). The shag rake was two sided with a wide tooth and narrow tooth side and the entire thing was gold with an embedded glitter paints. I played with that thing all the time.

We did have wall to wall carpet in our upstairs dining room and kitchen. Kid bathroom had the tiny 60s tiles but my mom had the three piece matching set; carpet toilet seat cover, bath mat and carpet beneath the toilet with the funky half square cut out so it would fit beneath the toilet.

With the glaring exception of my beloved purple shag carpet in my bedroom, all was positively ugly and revolting and grossly unsanitary.

Haha. Them were the days. Donny Osmond's fave color was purple so, of course, that purple shag carpet would have been the thing to have in your room. Lucky!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What made you think about this?

Yes, our house had carpeted kitchen and bathrooms when I was growing up. It was the 1970s. Indoor/outdoor carpeting. The times. We hated cold feet. This helped, I guess. I still have a cringey reaction to dingy little square tile bathrooms in old houses.

I live in an old historic house with the small square tile in both bathrooms. What is cringey about it?

[Anonymous]

My mom still insists on carpeting in her bathrooms. She hates the feel of tile. Carpeting in a bathroom really grosses me out. I use bath mats but wash those regularly.

[Anonymous]

We had full carpeting in the bathroom in the 70s. Most people did. We just picked it up (it was in two pieces) and threw it in the wash.

[Anonymous]

We had carpet in the bathrooms and kitchen growing up--I'm 37. My parents put on a second-floor addition to a ranch in 1989 including a master bedroom/bath and carpeted the entire master suite. It's still carpeted.

The main floor bathrooms and kitchen were also carpeted. They renovated the bathrooms in the late 90s and tiled them. The kitchen/family room/dining room is one big, long, narrow room so it's hard to break up the flooring. Even when they renovated the kitchen in the mid 90s, they just put in new Berber carpet in the whole space. They finally switched from Berber carpet to laminate flooring a few years ago. They hate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had wall to wall carpet in the kitchen in yellow, green, orange and brown patterns and pink shag wall to wall in the ensuite! So gross! Went well with the velvet and gold wallpaper I suppose.

Sounds groovy! Do you remember using one of those shag carpet rakes? Oh, the things that I would find buried in that carpet....

Yes, my mom and grandma had shag rakes. We also had a carpet sweeper for the kitchen carpet.

Child of the 1970s here!

My chore was to RAKE the shag carpeting...in my bedroom (purple) and in our finished, very groovy basement (orange). The shag rake was two sided with a wide tooth and narrow tooth side and the entire thing was gold with an embedded glitter paints. I played with that thing all the time.

We did have wall to wall carpet in our upstairs dining room and kitchen. Kid bathroom had the tiny 60s tiles but my mom had the three piece matching set; carpet toilet seat cover, bath mat and carpet beneath the toilet with the funky half square cut out so it would fit beneath the toilet.

With the glaring exception of my beloved purple shag carpet in my bedroom, all was positively ugly and revolting and grossly unsanitary.

I had to rake mine too except mine was emerald green. We never had carpet in the bath or kitchen but I remember plenty of bathrooms that did including my ILs. It went well with the giant floral wallpaper.