How to make a rug from bottle caps?

Bottle Cap can be used in the hallway or in the bath, because it absorbs the liquid well and is not afraid of moisture. It’s very easy to do it yourself; it will not require expensive materials or special skills. This mat is suitable for any interior, but it will look especially good if the design of the rooms is sustained in eco-style.

Materials

To make cork matfirst of all you need to accumulate traffic jams themselves. For a small-sized product you need about 150 pieces, if you want a bigger carpet - and you will need more traffic jams.

In addition, you need:

  • cutting board;
  • emery;
  • knife (sharp);
  • fabric base (as a basis, you can take a rubber mat, rubberized fabric, soft plastic, canvas);
  • glue (super glue, hot glue);
  • rag to remove excess glue.

Training

Plugs should be washed with detergent. If there are red wine stoppers among them, soak them overnight with bleach to bottle cap did not turn out "spotty". After that, be sure to rinse several times in running water and dry. Make further work only after complete drying. Cut each cork in half, sand the sections. Do it on the board to avoid injury.

The foundation

As a basis for cork mats Suitable soft plastic or thick rubberized fabric, and even durable canvas. You can take old mats, if they are strong enough. Cut out the mat from the base and cut it out. The size depends on your desire, the preferred shape is a rectangle or square.

Display

After the preparatory work on making bottle caps finished, you can proceed to the main operation. Lay out traffic jams, starting from the edges and moving to the center. You can do this in a row, you can - alternating directions to form a pattern. If at the end of the work it turns out that the plugs do not enter the remaining space, they should be carefully trimmed.

Mount

The final and most crucial step in creating a rug from corks is gluing them to the base. The procedure is the same as for laying out - from the edges to the center. Immediately remove excess glue with a rag. Try to keep each half of the cork in place in the place allotted to it.

Drying

It remains only to allow the mat to dry and, if desired, to process the bottom and edges with a sealant so that moisture does not leak through it.

Watch the video: DIY#91 DOORMAT Using Recycled Bottle Caps (March 2024).

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