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3 DIY Ways to Dress Up a Basic Outdoor Rug

By: Michelle Edgemont

Give your deck or patio a stylish upgrade with a budget-friendly outdoor rug. You’ll start with a plain, inexpensive rug and then make it your own. We’ve got three easy tutorials with three different looks: colorful, monochromatic and nautical inspired.

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Look #1: Colorful 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. Get step-by-step instructions for this project >>

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Materials

For this project, you'll need a basic outdoor rug, painter’s tape, paintbrushes and paint samples in your chosen colors.

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Create Stripes With Painter’s Tape

Start at one corner of the rug. Place strips of tape across the entire rug to create stripes.

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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.

3 DIY Ways to Dress Up a Basic Outdoor Rug

Look #1: Colorful Stripes

Materials

Create Stripes With Painter’s Tape

Create Perpendicular Stripes

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