From the Department of Flawed Thinking.....
There was a slight, unfortunate incident during the painting of the stairway in which a family member (nameless, of course) dropped a roller down the staircase. It bounced on a few steps and made a few vivid green marks that were not immediately cleaned up. Now they won’t budge. So the concept that I have proposed to my spousal unit is - If the paint is sticking to the carpet, can’t we just paint some more on the carpet to give it a more artful look? Not in high traffic areas, just along the edges. This is truly dreadful wall-to-wall carpeting that may have once been a light beige but was worse for the wear when we moved in four years ago and has certainly not aged gracefully. I’ve seen better looking floors in bus station waiting rooms. Rick thinks we should just overlook it, but I’m still wondering about those little tubes of fabric paint that they have at Michael’s. Maybe I’ll run out there later. And if the paint has no caveat along the lines of do not paint your carpeting with this, maybe it will be worth a shot. Maybe.