Covering An Old Rug

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.

Covering an old rug.

Forget about spending a couple hundred dollars for an area rug and just make it yourself from your old carpet. A neutral color with a cut wool pile and no heathering or interesting variation. Area rugs are usually the best way to hide an ugly carpet. Needless to say the rug was plenty large enough to cover the ugly carpet.

Unlike wall to wall carpeting that s fixed in place you can simply lay an area rug over the existing floor covering. You may be laying down an area rug because you can t stand the color of the existing wall to wall carpet such as in a rental unit but trust us it will look much worse if you just throw down a rug. Turn that old carpet into an amazing new area rug with just a little work. Choose something with a different texture and or fiber like jute sisal silk.

This is a great idea if you need multiple rugs around the house and want them all to stick to a specific theme. But when the rug arrived it ended up being about 8 x 11. Tack strips are difficult to install. 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.

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. In most cases wall to wall carpeting is very basic.