Spray Paint Door Mat

The black rubber mat has such a beautiful design but needed to be freshened up.

Spray paint door mat. I used the krylon clear polyurethane spray and made sure it was for outdoors. Use a stiff bristled paint brush or a stencil brush to tap the paint straight down onto the mat. Depending on the kind of wear it gets you can use primer and exterior house paint or specialty paint from folks who really know rubber tire and auto accessory dealers. Spray your mat several times letting the paint dry between sprays.

But i could at least make a painted custom welcome mat for the front door. This was a pretty fun and easy craft day my friend put it on but each person gets to create their own personality with it. Keep painting until you have the desired color depth. How to stencil and paint a door mat.

I used almost the entire bottle of black paint. Place your mat down on a spray paint friendly surface and then block off the areas you don t want to get blasted. I can barely get through transforming the inside of my house much less the outside. I find that a number of layers of light paint work a lot better than 1 or 2 thick heavy coats.

My mat held up pretty well for about 3 months. August 3 2017 by kimbo. The problem is that aside from painting our front doors a punch of color last year i ve ignored the outside of my house. This is pretty much how my front walkway looked.

And the perfect time to add a little color to the front and back porches. Recycled rubber outdoor mat available at the home depot. Just firm stippling motions. I did spray the whole mat as well just to make sure i had lots of extra coverage.

It s perfect weather for spray painting. I went over mine 5 times with a light spray. Let dry between coats. If you use folk art outdoor acrylic paint let it dry for 48 hours before setting the mat out.

Supplies to paint a recycled rubber outdoor mat. A plain black rubber mat can look more welcoming if it s painted and painting rubber mats might not be as difficult as you think. Spray several light coats. What better way to add color than to paint a couple of door mats.

I already had these 2 door mats but neither of them look very spring y or fresh. This was our last one i had to share cause i learned so many little tips. But we do not have a front porch and the mat was always exposed to the elements snow rain etc and it started to fade after a while. Paint we used acrylic paint it comes 24 jars in a box from walmart in the craft department these were much cheaper than buying sample bottles or quarts of paint but if you are doing less colors you will need to buy larger bottles.

Don t soak the doormat or you risk bleeding. You don t want to make sweeping motions because the paint will get underneath the stencil. When you re done painting peel the stencil off and let the paint dry for as long as your bottle indicates.