The carpet that came with my flat is light beige wool. Due to multiple stains over the years it looks terrible, and no amount of cleaning helps (I’ve tried all the cleaning hacks, gadgets, and paid for professional cleaning).
The carpet truly makes the flat an awful place to be right now - I feel sad every time I come back home. I was hoping to re-carpet but that wouldn’t be for another few months, as I’m planning an overhaul of the whole place. Money is tight so this might not even happen.
Until then, I was thinking of getting some rugs to try and hide the worst of it. Initially I wanted regular area rugs, but see online that IKEA do massive carpets, which got me thinking: would it look terrible if I got two giant (200x300cm) rugs in the room? There would be 25/75cm of the original carpet visible on the sides if I did this. Could that work or would it just look weird?
I then got thinking about medium-sized carpets, there is another IKEA one (120x180) that would actually perfectly cover my existing carpet if I laid six of them down next to each other. This is also much more cost-effective than two big ones (and probably also easier to send back if I realise I’ve made a huge mistake).
The rugs in question are natural/woven material which DP thinks looks like burlap but I really like. I’d hope that because they’re not as structured/stiff, they’d blend into each other more easily if you see what I mean?
Any other tips for disguising a disgusting stained carpet very welcome, I’m getting desperate here…