How to disguise striped carpet edges under a large Moroccan rug?

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I have a lovely Moroccan rug (natural coloured wool with red rectangles) which covers most of the floor in a summerhouse. Underneath is a striped wall-to-wall carpet which has seen better days - hence the rug. The carpet doesn't go with the rug but there's only a small amount of carpet visible round the edges.

Ideally I'd take up the carpet and paint the edges of the floorboards red, but this would be a gigantic faff because there are gripper rods round the edges of the floor which would need taking up. So, as a compromise, do you think strips of natural-coloured carpet round the edges (similar but not identical to the white in the rug), with the rug overlapping them, would look good? I have a bit of an aversion to rugs-on-carpets so wouldn't usually want to create this effect, but I'm thinking that because the edges are narrow it would be ok.

Or might there be other solutions to the issue?

Thanks so much for reading this far.

I'm afraid I'd have to bite the bullet and remove the carpet. I find taking up gripper rods actually quite therapeutic (have had to do them myself in every room including the bathroom here 🙄) and imo well worth the hassle for the far better look you'd achieve!

Thank you, LibertyLily. Do the removed carpet grippers leave holes in the floorboards?

if there are holes you can use wood filler in the appropriate colour to fill them in.

Ah ok - well yes, I think you're right that it'll look better. Sigh. But it'll be worth it. Thanks for your input x