City apartment dweller here. My lease requires having carpet or rugs over a certain percentage of the floor area. It’s a basic necessity to avoid aggravating one’s neighbors on the floor below.
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im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 8 hours agoYeah carpet is nuts.
Why would you not want to cover your floor in something to trap all the dust and soak up any liquid which is impossible to clean.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You could also just take off your wooden clogs and go barefoot.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Bare feet would make the rest of my suit of armor look silly.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Helps retain heat. The solution is a throw rug in the winter that you hose off in the spring though.
Cheebus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
at one point we had carpet in our bathroom
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Are you guys really such a stranger to vacuuming? I want lavishly plush carpeting in my house. Especially the bedroom.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
You must not have allergies/pets. Vacuuming does not get your carpets clean enough, and steam cleaning your carpets often enough is a big hassle and time consuming.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 6 hours ago
Vacuuming doesn’t achieve much.
Cheebus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
no like bathroom
where the toilet is, as in it used to be carpet when you get out of the bath tub, and also carpet when you take a piss/shit
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Oh no. Yeah, a piss soaked carpet is no good.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
carpets in themselves are not the problem. even vacuumming wont get rid of all the dirt and possibly stains. thats why you have separate carpets on the floor you can take out and actually wash without having to rip out the entire floor
paranoia@feddit.dk 6 hours ago
sound/echo dampening.
Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
One might wonder why this is not a problem pretty much everywhere that’s not North America.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There are better ways of doing that
brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Like textured ceilings, but people seem to hate those too 🤷
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
I mean, if you just stipple the ceiling it looks ugly. Like stalactites in a cave. But it can be nice with a bit of intentionality and design effort