KE Class-Works: EXTREME Classroom Makeover- Rug

Monday, September 7, 2015

EXTREME Classroom Makeover- Rug

We just love how our classrooms are coming together! It has been a lot of fun decorating and adding that personal spin to our rooms. There definitely have been a lot of IKEA purchases and bargain shopping around town and online.

One item I (Emily) have been looking for to add to my black with bright colors classroom theme was a colorful rug! I have seen a few floating around on Pinterest and other blogs. I FINALLY read where someone said they found this bright neon chevron rug at Big Lots. I was so excited!! I got I my car right away and drove to Big Lots. Of course what did I find? Big Lots was CLOSED! FOREVER! So I did a simple google search for the next closest one. It was 45 minutes away. Of course that one was closed down forever too! I had to have this rug though! It would be perfect with my theme and add that extra pop of bright colors in my reading corner next to a black bench. I convinced my husband to go on a road trip and drive 4 hours to where there were 5 different big lots within 45 minutes of each other. It was my birthday that week so he couldn't say no 😀. I searched all of those stores and NEVER found the rug I wanted!!

I was determined to have a rug that was chevron with bright colors! I continued by search for the rug online, but no luck. Then I came across several blogs that talked about painting the rug to the color you want. I figured I was already pairing basically everything in my room this year so one more thing would be fine!

This project took about 6 hours from start to finish. I found a rug on Overstock.com for a fairly good price (about $40).

Here is the rug before painting.

I went to the craft store and bought acrylic paint and fabric medium.

I used two bottles for each color of acrylic paint and two bottles of the fabric medium. I mixed two parts paint to one part fabric medium and mixed it together. Then I used a regular paint brush to paint