Battling a Rental's Big Blue Carpet

Before/2005: Behind the Rhododenrons, there's a house	After: New trim color, pared-down shrubs	09 UPDATE: New red body paint in progress	New barn red body paint + LR windows
New barn red body paint	Before: White-on-white trim [but cool hangout yard]	Look Ma, no shrubs: Back windows with new trim color	Before: The Big Blue carpet...LR to Kitchen [eating area]
After: Big Blue has to stay...LR to Kitchen [eating area] to Laundry Room	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same camel paint	Previous Owner's Decor: Kitchen to LR	After: Kitchen to LR (evening)
Previous Owner: Kitchen	Before: Kitchen with Mauve laminate counters	After: Kitchen w/new stove [M Stewart Cornsilk]	LR/Kitchen Border [Laundry/Mud Room behind door]
Laundry Room [M Stewart Rue]	Laundry Room w/ M Stewart Cornsilk accent wall	Before: LR/Hall to Back Bedroom	In progress: LR/Hall to Green [back] Bedroom
09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same camel paint	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same light cream paint [in this area + 2 front bedrooms]	Previous Owner: Hall to LR	Before: Bedroom 3 [rear facing]
09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone + new ceiling fan! Same green paint	In progress: Paint's not true here, but Bedroom 3 [rear facing]	In progress: Back Bedroom [ #3]--with *tan* carpet--to LR	Before: Bedroom 1 w/untrimmed Rhodie
After: BR 1 windows with trimmed Rhodie	In progress: BR1 [w/existing red closet due to lack of time]	In progress: Bedroom1--with existing red doors--to bath	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same light cream paint + red closet doors finally repainted
Before: Bath	In progress 05: Bath [M Stewart Mineral Green]	09 UPDATE: Oak floors in BR, bath gets tile + pedestal sink	In progress: Bath with built-ins (reflected in mirror)
Before: Bedroom 2 w/untrimmed Rhodie & neighbor Jose	After: BR2 windows with trimmed Rhodie	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone + new ceiling fan! Same light cream paint	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same light cream paint
After: Bedroom 2 to hall [same color on hall/BR walls, different look]	09 UPDATE: Oak floors redone! Same light cream paint	View from front steps	Uh-oh: Partytime for Renters? [Liked the PO's zen edging]