How to make a cool rug for pennies
Many of us cannot afford heated floors or wall-to-wall carpeting. Therefore, many of us have to insulate our homes with rugs. The cost of a good rug can sometimes be not just scary, but even shocking. However, there is a quite budget-friendly way to make a high-quality rug, which will take one evening to craft (or maybe less, depending on your skill).
Strangely enough, to make such an unusual rug, we actually need carpet remnants! Don't be scared off right away. Go to any hardware or specialty store, or check online classifieds. You can buy scraps and offcuts of carpet there for pennies, which are no longer sold as full rolls. Of course, it will be very difficult to buy such pieces in the same color, but with a little imagination, you can make a beautiful puzzle out of individual scraps.
Also, for this project, you will need to buy special double-sided carpet tape (it is sold in any hardware store). To make it easier to work, cut the tape according to the size of each piece. Stick the tape to the back of one piece of carpet and join it to another scrap.
The tape will securely and firmly hold all the parts of our "fluffy puzzle" together. If small gaps in the form of squares or rectangles appear while composing the layout, you can cut additional missing fragments and glue them onto the same adhesive base.
To keep our rug from sliding or slipping on the floor, I advise buying a special anti-slip mesh for carpets at the store. In addition, such a rubberized mesh will provide extra fixation for the puzzle pieces.
When we bought our apartment, there was almost no money left for renovations (we bought wallpaper, various paints, and other things to fix up the ceilings and walls), but things were tight with the floors. Walking on concrete isn't great, we didn't really want a carpet per se, but we didn't have the money to lay down linoleum back then either. Anyway, we went to the hardware store, grabbed some leftover carpet scraps, and made a temporary rug. But as they say, there is nothing more permanent than the temporary. And that rug is still by the bed to this day. (The floors have been done for a long time, it just turned out really cool).