Andy Hall wrote:

The slate is no worse than anything else that you might use in a
kitchen - except perhaps carpet, but I don't know of anybody with
carpet in a kitchen - that strikes me as being as revolting as carpet
in a bathroom.

The house we bought in 1997 had dark brown carpet tiles in the kitchen, and
pinkish carpet in the bathroom.
The laundry room was covered with offcuts from the livingroom carpet

Those were the first things we changed.

Sheila