Lakeside Homestead : Rug makeover

This makeover is so quick and super easy because it involves paint, just paint and painters tape it really doesn't get better. I am in love with the miracle of paint. There are an abundance of different types of paint out there. You can find paint that is for fabric, plastic, glass, etc the list really does just keep going..I'm thinking magnetic and chalk board oh my!

Ok enough of that, I have to stop myself from making this entire article just about paint.

Supplies:

Rug, duh haha

Paint

Painters tape

Paper, from the recycle pile of course

Scissors, maybe

I did use paint that is designed for use on carpet. I couldn't decide what color to go with so I just went with old faithful, gray :) this is a rust oleum brand paint and I am a fan. I love that the finished product doesn't have that stiff feeling that paint can take on. I'm not sponsored by them or anyone, haha, this is just a personal opinion. Oh yeah and the tip is important try to find ones that are fat, haha just big boned...like this one

As usual, I jumped right in to the project so I don't have a picture of the rug just by its self. I wanted to keep the design simple because well simple is always better:) why complicate things?

Alright I started with the "x" which is just too simple so I taped off the four "pieces" with an outline and used paper to keep the design looking clean. You want to use paper because no matter how good you are there will be over spray.

Now this corner is where I used scissors but if you were doing a well enough job with the tape edge you could get it free hand.

Notice the point is now a point and not some weird mistake.

Continue so that all the pieces now have triangle taped off sectioned.

Before you take the plunge and start painting you need to make sure that the tape is nice and smooth all over so rub your fingers down all the seams for good measure.

Alrighty, dive in and paint. I did this outside on a windy day.

Now, it doesn't need to be a windy day (actually I advise that you don't do this on a windy day) but you must do this outside. It's so important to have proper ventilation.

Don't be cheap at this point (with the rug being thrifted it's cheap enough) use a proper amount of paint. My rug is a 5 x 7 and just on the "x" I used an entire can.