If you want to add a unique touch to an entryway in your home but don’t want to shell out big bucks for a designer area rug, do it yourself with these instructions for how to make a hedge maze area rug from Make: Projects user Sean Michael Ragan.
From Ragan:
“I saw an expensive designer ‘labyrinth’ carpet like this in a catalog years ago and wondered at the time if I could recreate the effect on the cheap by taking electric hair clippers to a piece of ordinary deep pile carpet. Long story short: It works!”
All you need to make the hedge maze area rug are carpet shears, electric trimmers, an X-ACTO knife, a measuring tape, some cheap carpet and some masking tape. Basic instructions are as follows:
1. Measure, measure, measure
2. Design your maze
3. Lay out cutting grid
4. Cut out squares to form maze
5. Rough trimming
6. Cut to shape
7. Final touches
More advice from Ragan:
“I fully expected the actual shaving would be the tedious part. In fact, the shaving process was pretty engrossing work and the time passed quickly. The tedious part was laying out the grid to start. I toyed with the idea of mounting a video projector on the ceiling to project the maze pattern on the carpet directly, but the tape-grid method won out for simplicity and accessibility.”
for detailed instructions that will guide you through each step.
(Link via Super Punch.)
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