Painted Striped Rug

I've had a few projects on my Pinterest - DIY to Try board that I've been wanting to try, but was lacking the motivation to do it.  Last week Young House Love, Bower Power, Joey and Lana, and Emily Henderson announced the Pinterest Challenge on August 2nd and that's all I needed to get motivated.

This is one of the projects that I fell in love with.  I'm loving the yellow and the stripes.

After painting my sister's zebra rug a couple of weeks ago, she was wanting another rug.  She decided, well, after I convinced her, to try this striped number.  She bought a rug for $19.99 at Big Lots in a cream color.

We taped up varying stripes.  We used the piles of the rugs to determine our lines.  This made it so much easier than having to measure.

We used some leftover paint from her house in a bluish grey color and we painted away.  During our couple of hours painting.

She painted this for me.  Cute, right?

It's sitting on my parents dining room table drying. 

When we got it back to the house, I tried to get a good picture...

Finally, my sister got their attention and sent them to another room.  You could see a bit of the texture of the paint.  We didn't have this issue with the zebra rug.  We are thinking it was the actual rug fibers/materials.  Even with that, it just looks like a natural part of the rug and it came out awesome.  My sister loves it!

One problem, we painted at my parents house while they were on vacation. My sister's kids were running loose as we painted.  We finished painting and ran out of their exhausted.  Yeah, we forgot to clean up.  There were drips of paint all over the glass table and milk left in sippy bottles laying around the house.  We both got a phone call Saturday night...I blamed it all on my sister.  Pure exhaustion, I tell you.  

I'll be linking up to these parties

and Beyond the Picket Fence, Between Naps on the Porch, DIY Showoff