I love my hardwood floors, but they’re a massive problem for my senior dog, so I’ve got rugs everywhere right now. Rugs are a great balance. They can define a space, like a sitting area in a larger room. And they add color and warmth. They’re not that hard to keep clean if you don’t eat over them, and have a washable rug at the entrance so your dog can wipe their paws as they come in.
I wear slippers all the time (don't need that plantar fasciitis acting up) but the idea of wearing legit shoes (e.g. sneakers, runners) is deeply uncomfortable. Even if they've never been outside and were cleaned off coming out of the box, it just feels wrong to wear them indoors. I think sandals are slightly less discomforting but I still wouldn't want to do it
Yea, I understand. About shoes, I agree. I don't know why anyone would wear shoes in their house. Shoes anyway give problems and deform feet. Wearing good slippers/flip-flops, though is okay. Barefoot is the best.
I don't know where you are, but good quality flip-flops last years and they are open, so one's feet is not trapped inside, like in a shoe. There is nothing about Crocs that inherently makes them durable. It's all about the material quality, regardless of the type of footwear.
Dude is buying 5 dollar flip flops and then gets mad when they don't last. I've had flip flops last many years. I can't remember the last time I actually had some break.
Same. I did all expensive hardwood through the entire house for cleanliness and aesthetics reasons. And afterwards I felt like you couldn’t have a private bedroom conversation or …anything… anymore. And instantly regretted it. Tried to get over it. Didn’t get over it.
Ended up carpeting the bedrooms and the office. I don’t have pets, or kids that live with us, and we don’t wear shoes in the house.
Most of the house is hard wood floors. But the bedrooms are clean, high quality, comfortable carpets.
I think carpeting bedrooms is a nice touch. It's just lends a more homely, comfy feel to a space that's all about rest and relaxation. The more high traffic areas being hard wood makes sense as they'll hold up better and be easier to clean
Fr, mum’s house is entirely hard wood flooring and I can hear *everything*. Will never live in a home where there’s hard wood flooring near the bedrooms
People call me crazy for this, but feeling the ice cold floor of my bathroom under my bare feet is such a bliss to me, especially when I need to piss at night.
Yep. Had a GSD/Malamute mix, and a Jindo, at the same time.
The hair was.. uh.. omnipresent.
They passed years ago and I still find hair every once in a while inside some seldom-opened box or whatever. Which makes me sad, but then it's also funny, because "JFC you've been gone for years and I'm still cleaning up your hair!"
Robot vacuum for the win. House gets vacuumed twice every night, and we get the carpets professionally cleaned every summer, moving all the furniture onto our kitchen/dining room hard floors. Its work, but we can have our babies crawling on the floor in white sleepers and not be gross
We have 3 dogs. We clean and vacuum every week and vacuum an additional 3x a week. We STILL have enough fur floating around to make a 4th dog. Every winter and summer is coat renewal. Even vacuuming can't get a lot of the hair off of certain carpets (we have a few rugs).
Something that I realized a few years ago is that carpet is truly a luxury product. Just think about it. You decide to just put fucking fabric on the ground so that it's more comfortable to walk on.
I think too many people don't realize this. If you treat it as a luxury, you will clean it, replace it, keep your dog off it, etc. But obviously it's often not cared for well and that's where the complaints come in.
Hard wood is like a toyota. It's not cheap, but it's durable and easy to clean and cheap to repair. You can use a toyota for many many years. Carpet is like a sports car. It's more enjoyable to use but the mileage is a lot worse. You need to replace it earlier and you'll need expensive regular maintenance
Do people believe humans evolved in ascetic environments with disinfectant springs and soap trees? Modern hygiene standards and extreme cleanliness come with modern civilization, they’re not a biological need, more of a taste; nowadays shit is so obsessively clean and sanitized that people are developing more allergies and autoimmune disease because their immune system was in a bubble protected from antigens of nature and it now believes every single pollen particle is a deathly threat and that some food is so dangerous it’s better to go berserker and risk killing yourself. If you care for a rug or carpet decently it should be clean enough to not affect your health. It will not be 100% clean and pristine but none of those things are something to aspire as much as many people seem to expect their life to be it.
Yep. Many people have hygiene obsessions bordering on mental illness. These people banging on about carpets clearly have no idea how many microbes their furniture and other household touch points will be harbouring. Personally I prefer a healthy immune system and, as long as serious pathogens are controlled, have no problem.
Sanitary yes, but, going off the ... educated guess that video-OP has pets, hard floors can be especially rough on pet paws and joints. Given the amount of fur, this might be the orange animal's favorite room because the floors are softer.
Surprisingly incorrect but I understand why you think this.
Food dropped on a carpet picks up less bacteria than on a smooth surface. Not because carpet is cleaner, just the food barely touches it due to the fibres sticking up.
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u/lilangelkm 9h ago
Carpets are absolutely gross. Any smooth surface flooring is much more sanitary.