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    Cozy but hard as hell to clean. The patterns are meant to make that not particularly obvious until it gets really bad, but if dust is a health concern it gets to be a bit much.

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      For a while the fashion was shag carpet with a random splotchy pattern in earth tones. Yes, it did a good job of hiding the dirt, but it was too good at that. I can remember hearing the cat throw up in the other room, going in to clean it up and not being able to find it until, after searching for ages, stepping in it.

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      why is it harder to clean than any current material?

      Soap and water and a brush, that’s it.

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        Is this one of those things where sarcasm doesn’t carry over the Internet, or…?

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            When I moved into my house it had a concrete coloured lino floor in the kitchen, you could never tell if that thing was clean or not. Is that bit of brown part of the design, or is it a crushed bran flake? So you’d get the Hoover out and it would turn out to be part of the bloody design.

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              I know somebody who used a marbley surface for their kitchen and every time I’m at their place I’m thrown by a part of the pattern that looks just like someone spilled chocolate milk and let it dry in place.

              Admittedly that’s because it’s particularly large dark patch. 70s floral patterns in fuzzy materials were way too busy to identify any one thing as a stain. It all became this noisy blur. If anything it had the opposite problem of sitting down on top of the crushed barn flakes because they camouflaged perfectly on your sofa cushions.

              Cats, too.