What about pink and grey? A classic combination; the grey tones down the pink.

I tried to put some pinky-mauve carpet in 2 gray rooms to give you an idea what the grays would look like.

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I don't think I'd put more pink on the walls if you want to down play the pink-mauve. I agree with dekr8 that a perfect grey would work well and I'd do two tones on the same color strip. It would mute the room sufficiently and should blend with the taupe. A picture would help so much but I know it took me a while to figure out how to post them too.
Btw Dekr8, do you know what color gray that is in the second picture. I love it.

Everyone has already made my suggestion - grey. I would try to determine whether the pink-mauve carpeting has a cool grey undertone to the mauve, or more of a warm brown undertone, then look for greys that correspond to that.

However, if your drapery and romans are taupe, and they are not being replaced, that is the color you have to consider. In that case, I would do the walls a very pale shade of that same taupe, the same on each half, and do the chair rail in the trim color in the room. Then consider a toile bedding in the taupe family. Add a decorative pillow with pinks in it (perhaps a needlepoint), and some framed prints on the wall that have some pink tones in them.

If this pink and taupe toile would work, you could have a new duvet cover in this toile, shams as well, and a skirt in a tan and rose stripe or check, perhaps:

garden toile old rose

Kitchen, if you really don't like the carpet, have you looked in Craigslist for some carpet folks and talked with them? If you find the right folks, you might be surprised how inexpensive it really is to have them come out and replace it. I just got my carpet ripped out of DR, LR, MB, and hall, and replaced with an engineered wood floor. I can't tell you how much it's lifted my spirits and made all my furniture look better.

Now I'm finding out that my staircase (split entry, so 7 up and 6 down, plus landing) will cost about $350-600. For that it's not worth putting up with ugliness. And stairs are more expensive/labor-intensive than floors.

Why not whip out your tape measure and visit a carpet store or two, or browse CL, or both?

But also, if you decide to live with it, have you looked in the bedrooms thread in the Gallery? I can't remember if there were pink carpets in there or not.

Just an idea for you...I lived next to some friends who ran a carpeting business and he told me that one inexpensive way to redo a room's appearance with a dreaded rug color? Is to find some remnant carpet in a similar pile & style (berber, etc) and have a carpet layer come in & cut out -say a 12" or 16" strip of the existing rug..(leaving an outer edge of 6-8" of the rug's color) and then 'inlay' a strip of the remnant. He said it's a quick fix until you can afford to replace all of it.

There are some nice oriental rugs - get a large size - that would combine your pink, grays, and taupe with others colors. Then the under carpet would be mostly covered but work well with everything you have. Stay with a taupe. Recently, I discovered Ellen Kennon's colr Taupe which is a great neutral.

yayagal, the colors are farrow & ball. The 1st is No. 244 London Clay, the 2nd pic. is No. 242 Pavilion gray. I posted a link to the photos, just scroll half way down. (I changed the carpet color).

Here is a link that might be useful: Patricia Gray

Here's a room from Rate My Space where they had to work around pink carpet.

Laurie

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Here is a link that might be useful: pink carpet

I thought I had remembered a better picture of this room ....but maybe this will help. Pink Toile & cream.

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Wow! Thank you for all of the great ideas. It's so interesting to see how so many people can have such different takes on the same dilemma.
For what it's worth, the room has the pink carpet b/c I was in a pink and cream toile mood for a few years and had a pink and cream toile bedding set as well as cream curtains. Then I got tired of it an made my cherry canopy bed into a four poster and replaced all the cream with taupe and removed all the toile. Having said that, I do really like the black and white toile room that is posted in this thread and it is actually the exact toile I have in the adjoining master bathroom!
I do also like the grey paint idea but then I would have to replace the panels for 4 windows in the room which would be costly.
I may explore recarpeting the room. I believe the room is about 15X20-something, so that may also be costly.
What is the deal with CL? I had no idea one coud buy carpeting and installation from CL. How does that work?
Thanks again everyone, and keep the suggestions coming!

I had the same carpet the living room when I bought this house. I purchase a area rug that is traditional in stye and is a dark olive green , cream ,yellow and has a small amount of pink in it. It tide the pink and the rest of the colors I used in the room together enough that I didn,t need to use pink anywhere else, so it was minimized.

What is the deal with CL? I had no idea one coud buy carpeting and installation from CL. How does that work?

In my CL some stores advertise, but also there are people who simply buy overage, or mill ends or something, and install it. Do be careful to pay *after* you have goods in hand and again *after* the install is complete. If anyone (who isn't a store) wants you to pay up front, run the other way.

I just got new hardwood engineered floors that way, in my LR, DR, hall and MB. I got a great deal. I also got like-new rugs through CL for a heck of a deal. So nice to be rid of the wall to wall carpet! Wood is so much cleaner than carpet, especially if you have pets. I just love it.

Look in CL under "Materials." Pretty amazing what you can find there. You can also buy the carpet or flooring and then hire someone else to install it. You can check out Angie's List for recommendations in your area.