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Major Time-Waster: The Website That Logs Airport Carpeting from Around the World

January 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM | by | Comments (0)

It’s no doubt that we love us some airports, but we’re usually focusing on places to wine, dine, and relax. However, there’s a whole other world hiding at the airport and it's literally under our feet. Unfortunately, we just haven’t been paying attention...until now.

That’s where the folks at Carpet for Airports come in, as they’re trying to capture the braided excellence that is the airport carpet. The website was a little wonky for us at times, but it’s fun to drag the globe to identify plenty of worldly floor coverings. Some are squiggly, some are straight, but they’re all wonderful—and a great waste of time. Our sister site HotelChatter actually has a similar fetish, just with hotel carpets, natch.

Best of all they’re looking for volunteer photographers, as they want you to send in any and all pictures that you can find. It doesn’t matter how boring, drab, or dirty—if it’s a carpet in an airport just send it in, and you can become your very own "airport carpeteer." Just make sure you don’t get all creative with your camera angle, as they just want shots from above—so keep it simple!

Honestly we’re probably bigger fans of airport floor tiles—they’re easier to keep clean and less prone to getting smelly—but we wasted quite a bit of time checking out airport carpets around the world, and we hardily recommend that you do the same during your next extended layover. We’ll never look at an airport carpet the same way again, and we’ll probably start looking for our favorite.

Related Stories:
· Carpets For Airports [Official Site]
· The Price Tag for Philadelphia Airport's Mega-Renovation is 5 Billion Dollars [Jaunted]
· Airport News coverage [Jaunted]

[Photos: Jo Naylor and Jeremy Burgin ]

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