Bathroom Floors: Sanctity of Warmth or Siberian Tundra?

Length of shower: 9 min.---It is often a quick decision when constructing a bathroom to lay tile or stone as the flooring, but I say, "let's think again."

Tile and stone are cool, but they are also cool, as in cold, people!  No matter what time of year, when my feet hit that beautifully tiled floor after a good warm shower it is cold!  And not just ice or snow cold, but arctic cold!  Cold like the shoulder of my second girlfriend who made me take her on 4 dates before I got my first kiss from her...which was a quick peck on the cheek at the end of the night. Now, it is true that tile cleans up better after a watery mess that bathrooms can sometimes have, but when was the last time that happened to you?  Exactly, you can't even remember can you?  However, if you are like me dealing with the tile floor in my bathroom you can simply throw down a rug near the shower, so your feet are sparred their wintery wake up.  But the problem with that is that once you dry off and are ready to take another step, away from the shower, you hit the ice cold floor again.   So, we inevitably throw down that useless hand towel in front of the sink and then jump to the safety of it's warmth like a frog jumping to a lily pad.   You then think to yourself,  "Can I make it to through the doorway to the carpeted hallway?"

Of course you could cover the bathroom in carpets and rugs.  But what good is that?  They tend to fall apart after a while plus you will inevitably step off that carpet every now and then only to find that menacingly frigid floor waiting for that one daring toe of yours to venture away from the pack.  Burrr!

But what would solve all this inner turmoil and literal "cold feet"?  Carpet!  Duh.  But we rarely carpet a bathroom floor.  Why?  Carpets are warm, friendly and they insulate.  I say we start a carpet movement and start re-doing all our bathrooms in carpet!  After all, in the end our everyday comfort is more important than the occasional watery mess that may or may not ever happen.  And while we are at it we should just carpet the garage too....but more on that later.