AIBU to think only bonkers people have carpets in their kitchens?

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A little lighthearted thread for a Friday.

We moved into a new house a few months ago. The people before us had put in a new kitchen....with a carpet on the floor.

We're planning to extend the house next year so there's no point in doing anything to the kitchen in the meantime, but I have 3 kids including a baby who likes to throw his food around when he gets bored of it. I have to hoover the sodding thing every morning & evening and seem to spend half my life scraping up ground-in shreddies.

Seriously - who the hell puts a carpet in a kitchen????!??

The same people who have them in their bathrooms

We had a BROWN carpet in the bathroom when we moved. Wft, 'oh yes brown carpet cos then it won't show when we crap on the floor'

Oh god.. we are soon moving into a new rental like this (in kitchen, not bathroom, thankfully). It's cream as well. Why?
I was considering some kind of wipe-clean lino-type rug for under the units and around where the dining table will be. Want to try baby-led weaning in a couple of months. It will be a nightmare!

Forgot children, I'M constantly spilling things in the kitchen! I can only imagine how stained a kitchen carpet would look after a year.

TBH, I hate carpet fullstop, and am very excited for the day I own my own home and can rip out any remaining carpeting. Bwahahahaha!

I am bonkers then. :)

Having said that our house has concrete floors and lino does nothing to soften it. The kitchen is postage-stamp sized and has carpet tiles stuck down. Otherwise it's cold as hell in there.

probably. Same as bathrooms. You need wipe clean not something that absorbs all the spillages and crumbs .

Oh yees MIL has carpet in her kitchen (and bathroom). She moved to a house with laminate and lino and ripped it all out and carpetted it!

my parents do fine with a carpet in the kitchen but i'm way too messy and have some flooring stuff in mine, that i can wash easily.

We've been here 5 years and still haven't taken up the previous owners' carpet tiles in the kitchen or carpet in the bathroom and shower room. In fact we've only decorated my DD's room due to damp/ re-plastering issues. Put a plastic sheet under the high chair to catch the worst of it.
The carpet will definitely be another colour (or mass of colours) before you get around to replacing it. Is there a cold, hard concrete floor underneath it? At least when your DC trip up they'll have a soft landing.

I can see the point about the cold floor and it probably is concrete, but isn't that what slippers are for?

Thankfully the bathroom is all tiled. Brown carpet!!?!? Bleurgh.

Only crazy people put carpet in kitchens. Or maybe people who do not cook. At all. Ever.

I may be a bit prejudiced though, because I don't really like carpet and rejoice in tiles and wooden floors. Also, I am a mucky fucker and would doubtless ruin any carpet.

When DH and I bought our house the whole place was done in hideous brownish poo shaded carpet - all of it, halls, lounges, bathrooms, kitchen - the lot. We ripped it out and discovered to our joy that there was real solid oak hardwood flooring under the carpet in pretty much every room, and some pretty decent tiles in kitchen/bathrooms - who on earth covers nice easy clean floors with manky carpet?

O/T not a lot of houses these days are built big enough for a dining table in the kitchen, come to think of it, very few houses have both a dining room and a sitting room these days either.

Carpets are grim anyway.

Especially grim in the kitchen.

Yes, dark brown carpet tiles left by the previous owners here too.

On a cheery note my parents are having dark brown carpet put down in their sitting room to replace the dark green they've got fed up with. Admittedly their house opens directly onto a road with no front garden, but I think it will make the large room look much smaller. Personal taste is an odd thing. They had lovely cream carpet in the 90's but it was a bugger to keep clean.

littleducks do you think your MIL feels the cold and finds the noise of laminate a bit too much? She could be someone that is old enough to remember cold tiles and Lino when she first had a house to look after.

I'm enjoying the lack of blue moon madness on this thread after the flurry on the other threads.

I wish we had a carpet in the kitchen.. we have a slate floor and anything that falls out of a cupboard or gets dropped immediately shatters... I have lost count of the number of glasses, mugs, plates and pyrex ovenware that has been sent into smithereens now.

As for bathrooms, carpet is much safer. I hate tiled or wooden floors in bathrooms as I am always worried about slipping on them.

My parents kitchen was carpeted, mainly because it was the coldest room in a very cold house most of the time, and there were no babies there to throw food around, and any spillages were immediately cleaned up anyway.

My husband suggested carpet tiles in the kitchen when we fitted a new one. A key part of his argument was that if one got stained/damaged it could be taken up and easily (and cheaply) replaced... fortunately he wasn't actually that serious about it (although did bring it up a lot before we finally committed to the vinyl flooring!)

Irritatingly he may have had a point as we went for cheap vinyl which now has several holes, due to my unintentional knife juggling, and a huge tear from when I tried to move the fridge by myself.

I't's unusual BUT I'd wonder if they had a particularly reckless baby or toddler. I've had to cover my lovely stone tiled kitchen floor and hall with thick rugs over the last couple of months due to a hyperactive ten month old who runs everywhere (and falls) and climbs on the furniture and dives off head first. It's ruining the look of the place but it wouldn't be safe otherwise.

Or it could be to keep in heat as another poster suggested.

My mum, but she is the cleanest, tidiest person on the planet.

I used think the same, but now I have come to realise that without a carpet our kitchen floor will be very cold during the winter. I would actually consider a carpet in the kitchen just to keep a bit of the cold out. Not sure if it works though.

I just hate carpet anywhere.

But OP my mum loves carpet, as kids the house we grew up in had 'kitchen carpet' - you could wash it with soapy water.

sashh - when DS was a toddler we had this kitchen carpet in a flat we were renting. It was a special short dense velvety pile and if you wiped up spills immediately they didn't mark the carpet. I was quite impressed with it in fact. But not as impressed as the landlady, who had carpeted the entire flat with it!

Just use rugs. I haven't got a fitted carpet in the house - and the ones in heavy use areas can be cleaned easily.

Yanbu, it's gross. Just think of all those discarded bits of food, spills etc... Yuck!

It's disgusting. My dad had carpet in his kitchen, and while he was an excellent cook, he was a single bloke and not too hot on cleaning. When he died and I sorted the house out, the carpet came up with a slurping squelching noise.

"Yanbu, it's gross. Just think of all those discarded bits of food, spills etc... Yuck"

So long as you have a hoover and a cloth to mop up, I cant see a problem. Not as if you eat OFF the carpet, is it.