You can probably come up with many other good ideas but these were just a few off the top of my head.
Make a piece of carpet into a rug.
If you need to join two pieces of carpeting together to make a long runner use seaming tape.
There are three ways to make a rug out of carpet remnants gluing stapling or professional binding.
Let s look at each of these to see which is most cost effective with results you ll be happy with.
For this project you will need.
You love a piece of carpet remnant and want to turn it into a rug.
If you want to make an area rug from a carpet remnant or from a swath of broadloom carpet off a roll there are several options for finishing the edges to prevent fraying.
Seaming tape comes in two types pressure sensitive.
A carpet remnant can be turned into an area rug using ordinary tools and an adhesive carpet binding product.
This product is a very good diy solution to make rugs out of carpet remnants.
Think about how to position the shape on the available carpet particularly if the rug is going to go on top of the carpet it is made from.
Rather it requires that you have a professional do the work with.
You have spare carpet you want to find a good use for sell it at a garage sale.
They can be integrated into the rug by taking a flat head screwdriver and running it around the edges where the carpet pieces meet.
If the shape is complicated you might want to make a paper template first from newspaper.
Bind it yourself with a diy carpet binding tape.
You will probably have a lot of carpet fibers showing on the underside of the rug.
Work from the underside of the rug pressing the cut out pieces firmly into the base.
The most common choices for carpet finishing are binding serging and fringing.