To have carpet in the bathroom?

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I know you're all going to recoil in horror at the idea but I'm really fed up of cold floors.

I want to step out of bath onto the warmth and comfort of carpet. Yes I have a ds and yes he often misses but I'll get one of those shaped rug things that goes round the base of the loo.

Dh disagrees and wants to put fecking lino down! But he also said if the majority of you lot agree with me I can have my shag pile!

Please please please can I have carpet or aibu?

Indaba, I am getting old, I can't change

I think it's one of those ideas thats nice in your head, but the reality is a huge disappointment. I can't imagine the effort that keeping it clean and dry would involve.

What about getting a big fluffy rug that you can bung in the washer when it gets wet and fusty smelling? Plus once the carpet's wet, it will be horrible to step onto - all squidgy and damp. (worse than lino IMO!)

Yuk, yuk, yuk!

Cork tiles, I like the sound if them.

YABU. I've just had the carpet ripped out of my bathroom and replaced with lino.

It was damp
It was smelly
It was stained - piss stains as does the toilet cleaner that got spilt once!

You'll soon get tired of having to vax/steam it every 5 minutes to keep it clean.

Lino and a big, soft, washable rug are the way to go.

Urgh yeah wet carpet does not sound good!

It was the height of sophisticated luxury when I was a girl! If you wait long enough everything comes back into fashion. Am already regretting getting rid of our 'pampas' bathroom suite (pale green - more tasteful than 'avocado') in favour of boring white.

It's your bathroom - sod the nay-sayers.

Gross. Men and boys have bad aim and dribble. Will be manky in no time.

When I moved into my previous home I needed a peg on my nose to enable me to remove the carpet that the previous owners had had in the bathroom. They said they laid it when they moved in fourteen years before. Their son was fifteen when we bought the place. It was beyond rank.

No carpet where there will be piss.

"Urgh yeah wet carpet does not sound good!" - especially when you're not sure what it's soggy with!

Who are all the people pissing all over their bathroom floor to make it smell of urine? Surely if you do that stepping out of the bath is just as URGH as you end up in a pool of piss? If you are that sort of person, maybe some flip flops beside the bath will be fine either way?

I wouldn't have carpet in the bathroom, just 'cos it's so much nicer to have cool tiles under your feet, but if you're not like me, then there's not much wrong with it, as long as you don't piss on the floor.

Yurgh. Our house came with fitted bathroom carpets, DP really liked them. When I finally nagged persuaded him to go for laminate/tiles and we took it up it was hideously stained round the toilets from a decade of mis-firing. And we didn't even have kids then

Bleuurgh @ bathroom carpets. They'll always be a bit soggy and damp and will smell faintly of urine.

Just get underfloor heating and have bath mats to avoid slipping.

When I have my very own bathroom I will have carpet on the floor. While I share with dh and have 2 teenagers hijacking our bathroom I'll stick to tiles, with underfloor heating and lots of fluffy bathmats.

I'm just about accepting of the carpet that's in the rest of the house we are renting but thankfully the bathrooms are tiled. Having had years of wooden floors, carpets are harbingers of dirt and dust (clearly I am now straying into the realms of BU) but wood/tiles esp with underfloor heating are just so much cleaner. Do you have a ds? Mine are very careless pee-ers at times and carpet would just be the last straw in a bathroom. John Lewis and Ikea do very nice bath mats which wash and wear well.

The thought of it makes me shudder. What are you thinking?! It would be fair enough if you didn't care about anybody else's reaction, but I for one would mind it that visitors would find it minging...

Your dh is right.

I once lived in an apartment that not only had carpet in the bathroom. It had long pile shag carpet in the bathroom.

Never again.

Yuk yuk yuk - my inlaws have carpet in their bathroom - AND kitchen!!! It is thoroughly gross. They have just had their bathroom done and spent a fortune making it chic and stylish and spa-like and then in comes the horrific bottle green carpet - "because we don't like having cold feet".

Ugh. Do what makes you happy, of course. but visitors to your loo WILL judge you.

Wait until you have to replace it (in a couple of years) and have to see what all that wee did to the underneath of it and the underlay...

The horror.

I have fond memories of my childhood bathroom which had purple carpet which extended up the side of the bath Toilet was in another room though.

Sorry, but I have to agree with many of the peeps on here. Carpet in the bathroom is a non starter if you have (a) a hubby and (b) a child/children, especially of the male persuasion.

Under floor heating or even getting your own private on-suite built, is where it's at if you have the money. Failing that, I'd wait until the wee un's have left home to avoid: piss stains, wet carpets from over full baths, splashy bath times, vomit mis-shaps, hair dyeing disasters, spillages and general carpet destroying episodes.

YABU totally revolting and unhygeinic (sp) [boak] our house had carpet in the bathroom when we moved in and we got it taken up asap, we have 4 boys and it quickly got revolting, just get a nice mat to put on the floor near the bath? but i have to say i dont notice that our lino is cold?