Megan Phillips

Go for a student-grade tube set (not craft paint) with a small palette: warm and cool red yellow, blue, plus titanium white; you’ll mix nearly everything and avoid paying for 24 colors you won’t touch. If possible, grab a larger tube of titanium white, and pick medium-viscosity paints so they’re easy to blend. To slow drying, use a simple stay-wet palette (damp paper towel under baking parchment) and mist the paints; brands like Liquitex Basics, Amsterdam, or Blick Studio fit your budget and are easy to replace color by color.

Two things made the biggest difference in my mixed floors. I folded the fringe under and secured it to the rug backing with removable fabric tape and a few short stitches at the corners and then I popped off the side brush on runs near that room. side brush is usually what grabs tassels. If your model lets you, turn off carpet boost entirely and run a lower suction profile for the whole apartment. Pair that with a zone clean that excludes the rug by a generous margin. Not elegant, but it keeps the bot from even touching the tassels. Works great.