Add Paint To Area Rug

I don t know about you but i love area rugs.

Add paint to area rug.

I didn t want a solid red rug. This rug became my canvas to create my own design. So i decided to paint an inexpensive rug to get just the look i wanted. Lay it out on a drop cloth.

Painting your old area rug is great way to give it a new life and flex your artistic muscle. I mixed 1 part fabric medium with 2 parts exterior latex paint. Spray painting stripes on the area rug. If you re also painting a 6 8 rug you ll need 2 6 oz bottles of the fabric medium found at a craft store and 1 quart of paint to do one coat.

This is what the sad drab rug looked like before i got started. I have wanted a rug in our girls playroom for a while but i just didn t want to drop a ton of cash on one. However if you are on a tight budget like us then you may quickly realize that the area rug you want is out of your price range boooooo. How to paint a rug.

They instantly change the way a space looks and are an easy and temporary way to add color or pattern to a room. Add the extra strip on the inside of your tape borders so that you are not covering up the parts of the carpet that would become the stripes. I wanted the variations of different shades of red. To add a faux fabric technique to a faux painted rug mix one part paint extender with four parts paint and mix well.

Cheryl simmons first coat. Pour the extended paint into a tray remove excess and begin rolling onto the area in small sections. You might think your rug is ready but go over the entire rug one more time. I used a stiff angled purdy paint brush to paint the border and didn t use tape since the angle on the paint brush made it fairly easy to not get paint on the rug as i painted.

Here s a diy tutorial on how to paint your area rug with regular latex paint and still keep it soft. Once i mixed the paint and fabric medium i just applied the mixture with a sponge brush. This is a no dye method meaning you won t need to boil y. To keep from getting paint on the rug itself as you paint add painter s tape around the edge of the border to protect the rug.

Make sure it is clean and completely dry. The sixth tip is to apply more than one coat of paint. Once i finished painting the rug i let it dry completely. This will make more of a contrast between the paint and the rug and a crisper finished product.

Continued painting until all stripes have been painted.