Stenciled Porch Rug with Chalk Paint

Stenciled Porch Rug with Chalk Paint – How To Stencil – Painted Porch Rug

This post has been a long time in the making.

Like almost a year in the making.

And I don’t mean that the actual stenciling of a rug on the porch took almost a year. That part of this post took about a week to complete.

I’m talking about the whole enchilada: From ideation to fruition …

to publication.

There’s no logical reason for this almost-year-long delay. Because I really do love the finished product.

And I’m excited to share with you what I see every day when I leave the house. And every day when I return.

So I can just chalk it up to a bout of procrastination. Coupled with fretting over the details (like finding the perfect size stencil). Then there’s the whole fear of some basic math to figure out how big to make the stenciled rug and placement of said rug on the porch landing.

And once all those elements finally aligned, I found myself in the fall. And I thought this project might make more sense to share in the spring …

Now here we are. You and me. And I’m here trying to remember the steps and materials I used to make this stenciled porch rug with chalk paint.

So please bear with me as I reach into the recesses of this 60-year-old (aging) mind to try and recreate this diy. 😉

How to Create a Stenciled Porch Rug with Chalk Paint

Materials*

NAKLEO Valetta Tile Stencil (7.9″ x 7.9″)

White Primer Paint

Rustoleum Chalked Paint in Charcoal

Rustoleum Chalked Matte Clear Coat Paint

Painter’s Tape

Paint Brush

Small Paint Roller

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Instructions

Okay, here comes the math part. Because you need to take your stencil size and figure out how many stencils you want to fit in your rug area – both across and down. And then use painter’s tape to tape off what you hope will be your stenciled rug area. I calculated in a 3 1/2″ boarder that I planned to paint around the finished stenciled area.

This step is optional: I removed the painter’s tape so I could get a clearer picture of where the rug edges are (remember I have aging 60-year-old eyes!).

This particular stencil set included a 1/2 stencil. I decided to start with that along the edge of the rug. After placing the stencil along the top and side edges and secured with painter’s tape. I used a small roller to apply the chalked paint.

Immediately remove the stencil.

I then continued on by placing the full size stencil next to the original stencil, eyeballing about an 1/8th of an inch white space between (as a “grout line”). This particular stencil did not include guides to line up each tile.

I taped in place. Rolled on the charcoal chalked paint. And removed the stencil.

I continued on with this process moving both across and down to fill in the stenciled rug. The plus side of using chalked paint is it dries quickly, so you don’t have to wait too long before you can add the next stencil.

Also, I had some wet paper towels on hand to occassionally wipe off the back of the stencil since paint can start to bleed through and create splotches.

Once I completed the stencil work, I let it dry overnight before proceeding to the next step: Painting a 3 1/2″ border along the rug’s edge.

This border also helped cover up the mistakes I made in calculating the stenciled size of the rug (I was a little short).

I’m a messy painter, so I used plastic drop cloth to cover the stenciled portion of the rug and taped off the border. I then painted along the edge of the painter’s tape with the green porch paint color. This helps with preventing the darker paint from bleeding through.

I gave the border two coats of the chalked charcoal paint.

To finish it all off (and after the border dried overnight) I taped off the outer edge of the stenciled porch rug and gave it two coats of matte clear coat paint.

And now my family (and our USPS person and Amazon delivery person) are greeted with a nice little surprise when we/they walk up the front porch steps!

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