How To Make A Floor Cloth Rug

Durable and easy to care for a hand painted floor cloth can be used like a rug for high traffic areas such as the kitchen or even the patio.

How to make a floor cloth rug.

And when you paint be sure to brush your paint from the tape to the canvas to ensure that you will have a clean edge on stripes or dots. For this week s installment of the one room challenge i decided to make a floor cloth from a drop cloth as the search for a suitable runner was proving to be fruitless. Materials needed to make a rug. Plus they can stand up to years of heavy traffic and will wipe clean with a damp mop.

The trick for painting a floor cloth is to make sure that the edges of the tape and labels are well adhered to the canvas. Remnant piece of vinyl flooring the design doesn t matter make sure that the back side is a light solid neutral color x acto knife or utility knife framing square yardstick or other straight edge. Roller tray and liner white acrylic gesso. One of the key elements of my plan was a rug to cover to a good portion of the tiled floor.

Needless to say this floor cloth was much easier to make than the one that i painted. My drop cloth is 12 x 15 for an 8 x 10 rug. Here s how i did it. Paint roller on broomstick.

Floor cloths add warmth to cold floors and won t collect dust or dust mites like high pile rugs and carpeting. Place the rug backing under the hems on the floor cloth. Then fold over 1 and press again on all four sides. I ll be folding the extra length under to create a double layer around the edges but you can use a smaller drop cloth too.

Number 10 canvas duck cut to dimensions of door or board plus a 6 inch margin. A painter s drop cloth can do more than just protect the floor from home improvement mess it can be turned into a customized floor cloth. Paintbrushs in a variety of sizes. Hollow core door or 1 2 inch plywood cut to size.