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[–] 26 points 2 days ago (31 children)

Yeah 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Carpet has a lot going for it. It's relatively cheap, easy to install, forgiving of subflooring issues, pleasant to walk on, and dampens sound. That's not to say it has its downsides - mostly keeping it clean and that it shows wear, but I can see why its popular.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    You could also just take off your wooden clogs and go barefoot.

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    One might wonder why this is not a problem pretty much everywhere that's not North America.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    I mean it is a problem, people just aren't aware of it, or just live with it. It used to be much more common to have carpet in Scandinavia but for some reason fell out of vogue. Everyone's living room is now horribly echoey and I have no idea how they put up with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    A living room is only echoey if there's nothing in it.

    Do Danish people have empty living rooms?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Yeah a lot do actually. A lot of Danish people have combined open plan dining and living rooms with only two rugs in the vicinity of the couch and the dining table. There is then often a lot of unused space and hard surface around. The acoustics of my ex-girlfriend's parents house was always horrible to me, you can tell when it was built in the 1970s it was fully intended to be carpeted.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    There are better ways of doing that

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Like textured ceilings, but people seem to hate those too 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    at one point we had carpet in our bathroom

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    Are you guys really such a stranger to vacuuming? I want lavishly plush carpeting in my house. Especially the bedroom.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    I have a cat and I don't really see what the problem is, my carpets are fine. Yeah there is some cat fur when using the hoover, so what?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day 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

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