Do you like large , about 10x12, carpeted bathrooms?

I do like large, comfy bathrooms; not sure if they need to be carpeted.

That sounds like mold and mildew waiting to happen. No thanks.

Nope. Tile. Or marble. Maybe a throw rug.

I refuse to have carpet in my bathroom or in the kitchen. There is a nightmare growing under it, I promise you that!
But to answer the question, I can’t imagine a bathroom being any kind of haven. Now a reading nook, maybe.

I love spacious bathrooms, but I’ve never felt carpeting makes muich sense for an area where less-than-desirable liquids and solids fall to the floor daily.

Carpeted bathrooms are inherently filthy. I don’t care how good a housekeeper you are.

Places where there is water (bathrooms, kitchens, etc.) should have tile or lineoleum or slate – not carpeting. Carpeting acts as a wick.

So for that reason alone – this is a downer for me.

I wouldn’t think of a 10×12 bathroom as “large.”

No thanks with the carpet. A throw rug or runner, yes. I have a runner in my bathroom. I routinely take it outside and shake it out. When it gets old, I’ll throw it out and buy a new one.

Well, it’s pretty big. Lots of bathrooms in smaller houses are barely 5X5 (just guessing.) Room for a tub, a toilet and a sink, and that is all. Putting a potty chair in front of the toilet, like across from it, doesn’t leave much walking space.

A 10 X 12 bedroom would be pretty large too.

I can see how that would feel good. I am never happy with the cold flooring of bathrooms, and my favorite bathroom in the entire world is wooden-floored.

I wouldn’t put carpet in my bathroom for the reasons mentioned above, but white, wooden floorboards are very tempting!

My office is about 13×13 and it would not be a large bedroom. A bathroom with a tub, toilet and sink that’s 10×12 would not be large, either. Not the tiniest but not what’s considered large, either, especially by today’s standards.

@jca what would a large bath measure in your estimation? 15×20?

I understand that for you it wouldn’t be large. However, in my opinion and in my experience and in within my sometimes limited financial means, 13 X 13 would be a very large bedroom room, especially if it was a kid’s room.

My living room is about 10 X 12. The bathroom you describe sounds like a waste of square footage to me.

@canidmajor well, I suppose a lot of people would think so too but the kitchen was much larger and it may have been my favorite house plan. It was just so awesome to walk in there , sink into the carpeting and take a bath in the swirling water. Crazy thing is, it was less than 2K square feet.

No. Bedrooms aren’t even that big around here. I’d feel awkward standing in all that unneeded space. I don’t understand carpets in bathrooms, even on toilet seats, for the reasons mentioned above. I thought they stopped doing that after the 70’s.

I don’t want carpet in a bathroom. Too much of a mold concern. I also don’t use hooks for towels for the same reason. I want my towels to be able to air dry well and as quickly as possible.

10×12 is a nice size, but not very large. It depends on if it’s an apartment or house and if it’s for you alone, or if you share it with an SO. My last master bathroom was very big, I think it was around 19×17, and I wish I had made it two feet smaller and given the space to the bedroom to better fit a chair or chaise. The bathroom was almost square, and I would have preferred a little more rectangular. I think my husband would prefer to have his and her bathrooms. He mentions it sometimes. I wouldn’t mind that, and the result would be a smallish bathroom for each. Maybe 8×12 each. I do love a large shower. 4×6 shower is nice. My last shower was a huge walk in wet area with the bathtub in the wet area.

My next house will probably not have anything like that. Time of flux right now for us. Although, the bathroom I am pretty sure I can say will not have carpet.

Like the size, not the floor cover.

I think I’d probably prefer a smaller bathroom overall. I like when the whole bathroom steams up when I’m in the shower. I can hang out and shave my legs and it’s a bit like sitting in a steam room.

A big bathroom like that would take a lot of hot water to steam up, and would disperse and cool off really quickly.

@Seek It’s true, large bathrooms are cold bathrooms. Great point. Especially in northern climates I like to at least be able to close up the shower while I’m in it, instead of a walk in with no door. Some people have heated floors in their bathroom.

Heated floors?!?

My neighbor has heated floors throughout her house. It makes the house really cozy.

@Seek Up north, not in FL. I’ve never had them, but it sounds like a really nice idea. Heat rises, so not only are your feet warm, but the heat radiates up. I usually have a portable heater in my bathroom in the winter to heat it up. One of those $30 heaters you plug in. Maybe they are more expensive now? Mine is very old.

Since my floors aren’t heated, I have to wear socks between October and May when I’m in the house. Otherwise my feet are perpetually cold.

@jca Do you have wood floors?

No.

The concept of a carpeted bathroom actually alarms me. Woven or rubber mats are
about the limit.

Tiled heated floor. Only way to go.

I like a big bathroom. I don’t want carpet. I like tiles.

@Seek Floors are heated by a series of water pipes that run under the floors. You run hot water through them. I love the idea, but I also foresee a LOT of problems. Man, if you develop a leak, there go some floors!
I also wonder what it would do to the utility bill…but maybe the floors could completely replace the house furnace.

It’s called radiant heat. I had it in a dorm room in England; it was lovely.

When we first moved to this town I lived in a rental. It was charming, built in the early 20th century, but the landlord was a slum lord.
There was that skinny indoor-outdoor carpet in the kitchen. It smelled like urine. Before I moved anything in I tried to steam clean it. That just concentrated the odor and brought it all to the top and gently spread it through the air all throughout the house.
I told my landlord I wasn’t moving a thing into that kitchen until that carpet was gone! I told him I’d pull it up myself, and replace it with linoleum on my own dime.
He grudgingly agreed.
So I pulled it up, then scraped off a layer of linoleum, probably from the 60’s, then got to a layer of linoleum, probably from the 40’s. They used Superglue Tar in the 40’s! I finally gave up and put down ¼” underlayment.
Then I ran out of money. It was almost a year before I could come up with $100 for the linoleum.
During that year, under pain of death, the kids were not to spill anything on that underlayment!!!! The water would soak in and bubble the wood and that would screw up the floor when I went to put it down.
I was adamant about it.
So, I finally got the linoleum in. I remember the first thing my 16 year old daughter did was to stand in the middle of the floor and slowly pour an entire cup of water out onto the linoleum! I laughed and laughed!

You can heat floors with water or electric.

My underfloor heat is electric cables I have a thermostat for.