How To Make A Painted Floor Cloth

Here s how i did it.

How to make a painted floor cloth. But this time i made sure to select a vinyl floor remnant that was perfectly smooth on back. Needless to say this floor cloth was much easier to make than the one that i painted. 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.

If you need a bigger rug you can. Cut along this line. Working from the center brush a coat of flat exterior.

Buy a piece of 6 x 9 linoleum from the hardware store flooring section note. 3 4 of a yard of 60 wide canvas will make two floor cloths press an approximate 1 2 hem on all four sides. Floral hand painted floor cloth march 6 2013 at 10 14 am essentially used the same method that i used to make this floor cloth for my kitchen.

Choose the size of your floor cloth then add 2 inches to the length and width to allow for a. Cut the rug backing slightly smaller than the hemmed rectangle. Then fold over 1 and press again on all four sides.

Cut the canvas into the size desired. 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. I know it s a dance.

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. Canvas is made of 100 percent cotton so it should be preshrunk before painting. 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.