How To Make A Floor Cloth Rug

One of the key elements of my plan was a rug to cover to a good portion of the tiled floor.

How to make a floor cloth rug.

Floor cloths add warmth to cold floors and won t collect dust or dust mites like high pile rugs and carpeting. Materials needed to make a rug. 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. My drop cloth is 12 x 15 for an 8 x 10 rug.

Place the rug backing under the hems on the floor cloth. 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. 3 4 of a yard of 60 wide canvas will make two floor cloths press an approximate 1 2 hem 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.

Roller tray and liner white acrylic gesso. 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. 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. Cut the rug backing slightly smaller than the hemmed rectangle.

Cut the canvas into the size desired. Plus they can stand up to years of heavy traffic and will wipe clean with a damp mop. Paint roller on broomstick. Paintbrushs in a variety of sizes.

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. Here s how i did it. Number 10 canvas duck cut to dimensions of door or board plus a 6 inch margin. Needless to say this floor cloth was much easier to make than the one that i painted.