How To Paint A Rug And Keep It Soft

Slowly start filling in the petals being sure to kind of work the paint down into the weave of the fibers.

How to paint a rug and keep it soft.

If you don t you get one dark spot of paint in the middle of what you re trying to paint. I used a fairly small angled brush and was easily able to freehand the straight lines. I got the hang of how to paint the edges pretty quickly but it takes a little bit of experimenting until you are comfortable. Have a separate spray bottle of water ready as well.

Use spray on upholstery paint to keep the carpet soft. Use little paint i dabbed my brush in the paint and then worked a lot of it off before applying it to the rug. Avoid acrylic or oil based paints because these will leave your carpet feeling crunchy and clumpy. Use an angled brush as i said above with these straight lines it was super easy to paint.

While you could use a paintbrush to apply canned upholstery paint you won t achieve the same coverage consistency as you would using spray paint. Mix your paint and add it to your spray bottle. Tape off anything you don t want painted. Oil based primer i.

The way i painted it left it feeling soft. And luckily we had video that i could edit to show how it was done.