- High gloss brown paint.
- Contrasting light color paint that matches your kitchen.
- Clear, high gloss polyurethane
- Mini Paint Roller & Brush
- Paint Brush
- Painters Tape
- Chalk or removable marking pencil
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I initially tried to paint the chevrons free handed, but my perfectionist side would not allow it! Instead, I searched Youtube and found an easy tutorial from the blog Mommy is Coo Coo (there were many instructions, but the name of this site sold me)
Rhonda is the owner of My Symphony Seasonings, LLC located in Georgia. She has a passion for good food, health & entertaining which was the perfect combination for creating My Symphony Seasonings, a company that encourages you to cook and eat whole foods, close to nature by providing original recipe blends of organic herbs & spices, free of fillers and artificial preservatives to add flavor, richness and health benefits to your dishes!
Tanya Clark says
Did you use a latex base or oil based paint? Did you do anything to texturizing the surface of the mat or in between coats? I have three mats very similar to yours that I would like to save from the trash!
Katie says
Did you need a lot of paint? Also, what kind of paint did you use?
Thanks for any reply. I just got some foam rugs for my kitchen that I plan on painting and will be following your tutorial! 🙂
Kim Anderson says
I bought 30oz cans and used about half to paint 2 rugs in my kitchen. I used a roller. If you used a brush, you probably would use even less.
Lu Ann says
How exactly do you keep them clean?
Kim Anderson says
The coats of polyurethane helps to make clean up easy. Literally I just wipe them clean with a wet rag. Great question!
Rhonda
Charity says
I’m so going to get an ugly mat and make it awesome. I really love the cup idea. Painted my bathroom trim last week and it was all over the can. Guess I should have read this first. 🙂
Kim Anderson says
Awesome Charity! Rhonda did a great job with a super worn out mat. I’m about to do mine too so I’ll have to add pictures when I’m done. Pretty excited!
Wendy says
Great idea! I am redecorating my daughter’s bathroom and have a memory foam bath mat that just won’t work as it. Do you think there is any way to redo this rug like you have, keeping in mind it will be used by wet feet getting out of the shower. Haha. Thank you!
Kim Anderson says
Wendy, it depends on what kind of memory foam it is. The mat pictured is almost like a cushy rubber material. I have memory foam bath mats in my bathrooms that are plush microfiber. If you have plush microfiber your outcome won’t be the same as the one pictured. The one in the picture is made for kitchens or people who stand in one spot for long periods of time. If your mat is rubber, I’m sure the polyurethane paint would hold up well against the water. If you have a microfiber plush mat that is the wrong color, I might consider picking up 2 inexpensive bath towels in a coordinating colors to the new bathroom, sewing them together like a pillow cover, sliding the mat in and then sewing up the end. Then you can keep the plush comfy mat but have it in a color that goes with the bathroom. Just a thought. Thanks for the question! Good luck and hope you have fun with redecorating project!
Kris lee says
How well have they held up? I don’t want to waste the time and materials if they crack and look bad in a short time.
Kim Anderson says
That is a great question and I will add that information to the post. I painted the rugs over 8 months ago and I just took the ‘after’ picture in the blog post above the night before it was published. There are some small fissures (not really cracks) from high heel shoes, but other than that they’ve held up great! The little fissures can only be seen when I’m at eye level washing them. That’s another bonus; they wash really well! Thanks for the question! Hope that helps!