Painted Rug!

Yep, you read that right, this post is about our rug, that I painted! Much thanks again to Pintrest I saw this cute rug paint job from the Idea Room, you can check it out here.

I don't know that I am as brave to go with such bold designs and colors as the Idea Room went with on her rug. I just love my matchy matchy, and if I were to do one thing in an intense new look, I'd want to revamp the whole environment to make it match. So for the time being, I just painted our rug much more simply and to match how the environment currently is set up. Plus, I am not always the best with using stencils and I would be really nervous about messing something like this one up, since once it's ruined, there's no turning back. Another plus in my wanting to paint this rug, is that it's an older one and has some stains on it, so me painting it gave it a nice new "make-over" sort of look!

Okay, so enough jabbering and on to showing. Here are some before, during and finished pictures of my newly painted rug!

I didn't have time to do minor touch up editing on the pictures, so just enjoy as is! :)

 See the first rug that has the brown on the sides? Well this was the look I was going for, so that we could have matching rugs. The rug under our table in the distant is the one I painted.

 So I took the table and chairs off (for obvious reasons), put newspapers underneath to help keep paint from going everywhere. See how not so pretty those stains are? I wanted to hide most of them!

 But to make it still match the other rug I couldn't hide all of the stains, oh well. I put tape down to make sure I wouldn't end up going too crazy in my painting! :)

 I should have took a picture after each coat, but this is after my second coat of paint. And just a side note if you try this at home: The first coat I just painted right on, but it was getting a little of a stiff kind of feel ( go figure, since it's paint after all). And I still wanted the rug to feel somewhat soft-ish. So the second coat I watered it down a lot, so it more like stained the rug with the brown, and it gave it this look. Also another side note if you try this at home, it became very wet (from watering it down), so I put plastic bags underneath the painted part to keep it from bleeding to the regular carpet!

 Since it was so wet and was taking forever to dry, I hung it on our chairs, it took about a total of 24 hours to completely dry before I could lay it back down.

 Now its all down, and lovely modeled and accompanied by my little princess.

And even better, it is matchy matchy!!


Now as a wonderful new little side note, I am getting another new helper with this blog. One of my sisters, April, will be joining in as an author for this blog. I have shared some of her goodness before, but now she'll be a more official post-er on here too. She has a much more busier life than me with her family of 4 kids, college, and now just got a job, so her appearances will not be as frequent as mine, but it will still be great to have her appearance once in a while with her fun great ideas! And I will let her introduce herself a little more when she'll be able to squeeze in a post!

Well that's all for this week! Thanks again for stopping by! And come join me next week for some new decor I made and some super yummy banana treats (these are probably by far a new favorite treat and I can't help but make them at least once a week now!!).

Until next time!!