Covering An Old Rug

I figured this would be about as close i was going to get to the 10 x 10 size.

Covering an old rug.

Needless to say the rug was plenty large enough to cover the ugly carpet. Area rugs are usually the best way to hide an ugly carpet. In most cases wall to wall carpeting is very basic. The only difference when the rug is going to be used over a carpet is to make sure that the color of the rug complements the color of the carpet.

Add an area rug. By leaving a layer of carpet you make it that much harder to nail down the tack strips the long wooden strips around the perimeter with upward pointing spikes. You want the rug to bring life to the floor like in laura s adorable melbourne home shown above where she layered a graphic flat weave over beige carpet and a basic tiled hearth. Unlike wall to wall carpeting that s fixed in place you can simply lay an area rug over the existing floor covering.

The anchoring nails on tack strips run about 3 4 inch long which is far too short to penetrate the old carpet plus a pad if the carpet has one and drive into the subfloor. Choose something with a different texture and or fiber like jute sisal silk. But when the rug arrived it ended up being about 8 x 11. Forget about spending a couple hundred dollars for an area rug and just make it yourself from your old carpet.

And i found out that the rug does stretch a bit which is not a huge issue. This is a great idea if you need multiple rugs around the house and want them all to stick to a specific theme. A neutral color with a cut wool pile and no heathering or interesting variation.