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Colin has spent the past two days going from estate agent to estate agent in search of a place for us to live in London. If you don't follow

colins_journal, you can read his post on the subject here.

Pet peeve: why do so many British rentals and homes have carpeted bathrooms? Let alone the horror which is the carpeted kitchen. I've even lived in one of those places, albeit for a thankfully brief period of time.

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When Bill and I moved into our current place, (almost) the first thing we did was junk the nasty, ancient, stained carpet that was in the kitchen. Thankfully there wasn't any in the bathroom, but I guess with all those Sears and other department stores that put carpet in their showroom bathrooms, someone's going to think it's a good idea.

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Clearly it is or was fashionable somewhere and somehow to carpet these things. I really wonder why.

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This post gave me horrible flashbacks to when my family moved into our (longest-lived-in) home in 1987 and I discovered, to my horror, that there was a green shag carpet on the wall of the downstairs bathroom. It wasn't the entire wall, mind you, just the bottom half. Needless to say, we promptly tore it off and the dreadful memory was repressed.

Carpet in the kitchen just sounds plain dumb.

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I can envision finding style or playroom-based reasons to carpet walls in a house but not in the bathroom! I can see some advantages to carpeted bathrooms - warmer feet - but you'd want a very well ventilated indeed bathroom to avoid mold at very least.

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I knew C would come over to the Dark Side eventually...! The commute is a bit better from the Docklands as well. It's still busy but generally he'll be going contraflow in terms of commuter traffic.

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He's currently considering two places near Limehouse station - one with Thames views and one with no real views at all but a bit of a neighborhood and more convenient security. We'll see!

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Carpets: to minimise noise through to flats below, since because vast number of London flats are conversions, not purpose-built, things like bathrooms, kitchens, may not be built over one another but over bedrooms, etc. (I might not have twigged this without our ongoing saga with downstairs flat people as a result of which we had to have carpet put over what we thought were perfectly soundproof - and hygienic - cork tiles in the bathroom. On the other hand, these are the first ones, in all the time we've been here, for whom it's been an issue. So maybe it isn't that.)

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I would understand carpeting throughout to minimize noise in blocks of flats, but that's not been the case in most of the places I've encountered it. I've seen it in two whole houses (i.e. not divided into flats), in a ground floor flat, and C. saw one today where the whole flat had hard wood floors - except for the carpeted bathroom.

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We've got repulsive carpet in our bathroom - I replaced the carpet in the powder room asap, but we've been waiting to move the main bathroom before getting rid of the carpet (had a builder in this morning - hurrah!). I've been told that the carpet in the bathroom thing also stems from the "comfort" of stepping on disgusting, moist carpet instead of cold tiles in the winter.

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yeah, i can understand carpet to minimize noise, but why the kitchen? i wouldn't want any in the bathroom but i'd tolerate it. but NOT the kitchen! gross!

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Exactly.

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