You Can Hand Paint a Sisal Rug!
You don’t have to be Picasso to paint your sisal rug. Sisal Painting is easy and fun. With a little imagination and effort, you will have flooring that you created yourself!
Supplies
Rug - You will need a finished sisal rug. It is available in pre-made sizes from stores or catalogs like Pottery Barn. You can also purchase and have it custom sized and cut from stores like Rug Rats.
Stencil – You can easily make this yourself. We use poster board and draw the pattern directly on it, or use an overhead projector (some libraries and schools have these) to copy the pattern on it. Stencils are available for ordering at companies like www.stencil
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ease.com, which specializes in floor stencils. You can also send your pattern idea, scanned image, wallpaper, picture or anything else that you want for a pattern to www.panedexpressions.com. Let them know the size you want and any other specifications. They will send you a rendering by e-mail. The actual pattern will be the size that you will use on your rug..
Instructions
If you are making your own stencil, cut it out and lay it on the sisal using pushpins to keep it in place. Now you’re ready to paint!
Rug Rats uses acrylic paint available at art stores or even Wal-Mart’s craft department. These paints are slightly thick. Add a little water to it until it has the consistency of gravy.
With a regular, inexpensive paintbrush, paint your cut out areas. The sisal will drink the paint, so it may take several coats to get the color depth that you
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Let the paint dry, or become tacky, and set.
Lift your pattern up and place it at the next section. If you are making a simple stencil, like a single flower or design that is repeated along the edge, make several repeat designs about a foot long. You will paint one foot, let it dry, then lift the pattern and paint it again, on the next section until you have completed it all around.
For pictures of hand painted sisal rugs by Rug Rats, click here
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Our sisal rug is stained and in need of coloring, the entire surface. Is there a method to change our beige rug to a darker color to hide the stains?
Sisal stains terribly and is impossible to clean. There are two options.
1. I would make sure the stains are clean of any mass of food, dirt or whatever made the stain. You might try using a dishwashing type soft brush
and clean each stain with soda water OR baking soda and water. Hopefully this will leave a watermark on your sisal. Just scrub the stain. THEN, you can take the rug outside and wet the entire rug. Leave it to dry. This will make the whole rug one big watermark. Without knowing what your stain came from, this method might not take your entire stain away, but its possible it will just diminish the stain. If you can’t take it outside to wet, try a spray bottle of water inside your home. You don’t need to soak the rug to the back. Just spray enough to wet the surface. Use fans to dry.
2. The other method is painting. I don’t know how big your rug is and this could be a lot of work. You could use a cheap air brush and air tank bought at Wal-Mart, Michael’s, or similar store. Find an acrylic color that is darker than the sisal, and spray the rug. It would take some time. We have larger airbrushes and have painted many sisal rugs this way. Also, the paint is very direct and does not spray everywhere in the air, if you are worried about paint particles going through your house. If you know anyone creative, you could also paint a design over the stain marks. We have used this method many times with people that have stains on their rugs. You could make a stencil on anything, look in a stencil book in the craft stores. On painting small designs, you can just buy small bottles of acrylic paint and paint by hand
I know this sounds like a lot to go trough, but sisal is tough to deal with on stains. You will need to weigh how much work you want to go through and if it might just be better to buy another rug. I would also suggest that if you decide to buy another rug and like the natural look, get a seagrass rug instead. Seagrass will clean up well and not take a watermark.
Good luck and let me know if you have any further questions if you get into any of the processes above.