Painted Rug
Every month UCreate has a “Create With Me”. A project is announced and anyone can play along. You just create the project chosen using the tutorial provided. April’s project was to paint a rug. Sounds fun, and it WAS FUN! Who knew you could even paint a rug? Cool right?
I got this rug for FREE from a friend who bought it and didn’t like it. Ummm..free is my perfect price! I used white paint that I had on hand. I purchased testers in blue and brown from Home Depot (just 2.75 each, love these for small projects) I already had the rollers, but I bought the stencil brushes, around $3.00ish. So in total this project cost me less than $10 bucks. Yeah! Love it!
First I painted the rug white, it took A LOT of paint. The rug has a course, bumpy braided texture and it soaked the paint right up. It took 2 coats and over an hour to paint, but totally worth the time and effort.
Then I cut flourishes and flowers out of vinyl on the Silhouette and used the negative space as my stencil. Dabbing the paint on with the stencil brush I arranged and layered them to my liking.
After it was all dry I took my electric sander to the top, just to rough it up a bit (I saw this idea on TT &J and on House of Smiths). What do you think??
I really like it, my laundry room needs a serious makeover and this rug is the perfect inspiration for the space. Now I am SO excited to finish the rest of the room!!
What I should have taken a picture of is the PILE of laundry I tossed in the hall to take this picture!! Ha ha!!
Here is my laundry room, kinda small and cramped, any ideas?
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Have you seen the laundry room make over at Show and Tell?! http://showandtell-sausha.blogspot.com/search/label/laundry%20room This is SO what I am doing in a few months after I have my baby! I LOVE how it makes the washer and dryer look so much fancier!
VERY CUTE. . .I may have to do some updates on my rug. . .hmmmmmm. . . .Have you seen the laundry room make over at Show and Tell?! http://showandtell-sausha.blogspot.com/search/label/laundry%20room This is SO what I am doing in a few months after I have my baby! I LOVE how it makes the washer and dryer look so much fancier!
ooo It turned out cute! Those flowers are so fun!
Wow, I didn’t know you could paint a rug and have it turn out so cute! Blue walls would be really cute in there….
Where did your friend get the rug? I’ve been looking for one that size.
lovely stencil. excellent work, love the colors combo.
oh my gosh, that is super cute! i love the white and the flowers. great job!
Super cute! I think this is my favorite painted rug I’ve seen yet!
That is awesome!! I love the colors and patterns you used, great job!
LOVE. IT. Love everything about it, including the colors and the choice of stencils!
Super cute–love your pattern! My laundry space is in the garage, but it totally needs a rug out there!
Well done!!
Looks great! I like the colors and designs you chose!
This is really beautiful. The stencil is gorgeous! I have been dying to paint a rug and hadn’t found what I wanted yet. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Very cute! You make me want to make one too!
Britany I love your rug!!! The design is darling and I love the colors you chose! Thanks for linking it up to Think Pink Sundays – I featured you today! http://www.flamingotoes.com/2011/05/crush-of-the-week-think-pink-features-7/
This is adorable! I love it!!
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Love your rug! I was just thinking this week that I wanted to paint a rug for a project I have in mind and here you are! That is awesome! I am going to pin this so I can go back and remember how to do it when I get ready! Have a wonderful day.
This is a seriously cute rug!! This made me remember I have a runner that I am no longer using, and I could totally paint it!! Thanks for the inspiration!!