Diy Zebra Floor Cloth

The addition of a floor cloth is a perfect way to transform ordinary flooring into art.

Diy zebra floor cloth.

Foam paint roller and cover. Draw out an zebra hide shape onto drop cloth. Just prime a piece of canvas paint a design and seal it with varnish. How to make floor cloths before you begin set up a work space where you can leave the floor cloth to dry undisturbed for several hours.

Creating art underfoot is an easy step by step process and no fancy supplies or skills are required. Animal print animal prints ballards ballerd canvas carpet carpets copycat diy drop cloth drop cloths floor cloth floor cloths. She coated the surface with shellac for durability and then freehanded her zebra stripes. Our patterns are as simple to reproduce as scattering leaves from your backyard across a surface marking stripes with tape rather than a ruler tracing bowls for circles and painting streaky brushstrokes on a grid.

6 x 9 canvas drop cloth scissors paint primer brushes pencil eraser patience an afternoon lead time. After yearning for a zebra print rug for her living room charlotte from living well on the cheap decide to save some coin and hand paint her own design on a 9 x 12 canvas dropcloth. Diy drop cloth zebra hide rug. We started out using canvas then discovered painting them on the back side of a good grade of vinyl floor covering much easier to work with and you can get cheap remnants at carpet places.

So although i love your zebra rug i will tell you something a bunch of my friends have discovered about floor cloths. Prehemmed primed canvas floorcloth pictured. What you ll need to make this gorgeous faux zebra hide. Originally made from recycled ships sails they were used to cover dirt or wooden floors in early american homes.

This space should be dust free well lit and well ventilated. Floor cloths originated in france in the 1400s and were introduced to the american colonies in the early 1700s. The usually drop cloth size is 9 x 12 giving you enough materials for 2 faux zebra hides step by step. Paint in gray white and coral pictured.

The end result is a trendy floor covering for a sliver of the catalog price. Dunberry hill designs primed floorcloth 4 by 6 inch from 8 per sq.