If the carpet color and texture bother you, consider changing the image to black and white. This always highlights emotion more too. You can edit your images to become black and white with photo apps like Instagram or by just taking out all the saturation in your photo. LOVE that giggle! I can almost hear it!
Just found this blog post. Yes it is very helpful! I was going to ask about
this on your live Wednesday program, but you answered my ?? before
I had a chance to ask them!