How to Add a Colorful, Geometric Pattern to a Basic Outdoor Rug
Give a drab gray rug the color treatment with paint samples and tape. With a few colors or a lot of colors, this pattern offers infinite ways to add a punch to your patio.
Gray Outdoor Rug With Painted Stripes
Give a drab gray rug the color treatment with paint samples and tape. With a few colors or a lot of colors, this pattern offers infinite ways to add a punch to your patio.
Materials Needed
- a basic outdoor rug
- painter’s tape
- paintbrushes
- paint samples in your chosen colors
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Materials
For this project, you'll need a basic outdoor rug, painter’s tape, paintbrushes and paint samples in your chosen colors.
Create Stripes With Painter’s Tape
Start at one corner of the rug. Place strips of tape across the entire rug to create stripes.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Create Stripes With Painter’s Tape
Start at one corner of the rug. Place strips of tape across the entire rug to create stripes.
Create Perpendicular Stripes
After you’ve taped stripes on half of the rug, add some stripes perpendicular to these on the other side of the rug.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Create Perpendicular Stripes
After you’ve taped stripes on half of the rug, add some stripes perpendicular to these on the other side of the rug.
Start Painting Stripes
Paint several stripes with your first color. Try to pick ones randomly around the rug.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Start Painting Stripes
Paint several stripes with your first color. Try to pick ones randomly around the rug.
Continue Painting Stripes
Fill in empty stripes with your three remaining colors. Let the paint dry overnight.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Continue Painting Stripes
Fill in empty stripes with your three remaining colors. Let the paint dry overnight.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Continue Painting Stripes
Fill in empty stripes with your three remaining colors. Let the paint dry overnight.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Continue Painting Stripes
Fill in empty stripes with your three remaining colors. Let the paint dry overnight.
Remove Tape
Once paint is dry, pull off all of the painter’s tape. Voila! You have a custom-made colorful geometric rug to jazz up your patio space.
How to Paint Stripes on an Outdoor Rug: Remove Tape
Once paint is dry, pull off all of the painter’s tape. Voila! You have a custom-made colorful geometric rug to jazz up your patio space.
