DIY - How to Overdye your old rugs!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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In this video I will show you how to completely makeover your old forgotten rugs! Using this easy technique, you will be able to take your stained rug from drab to fab! All you'll need is three colors of liquid dye such as Rit, three spray bottles, rubber gloves, water, a hose, and a vacuum!
** Sorry about the orientation! I noticed about half way through the important part of filming this that I had my phone turned vertically. :) **
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Well done. I really like the new colors! I have a brand new 100% New Zealand wool rug in white. But I know it won’t last ( my partner has a chronic soda spill problem, and we have a dog ) so I intend on dyeing our new rug soon. This has been a great help...thank you!
Oh wow that will be beautiful!! Thank you! So glad you enjoyed! 💜
I love the finish product of the rug, thank you so much for the guidance of your video.
Ah thanks!! I’m so glad you liked it! :)
Thank you ! I just did my hallway rug grey turned out great! I watched another lady that said she didn’t wanna dye hers because it was way too expensive for the dye and you had to boil the water and all that stuff And she said it seemed like expensive and too much of a pain. Oh my gosh I did not have to boil water or anything. I did exactly what you did and it turned out perfect. In the end she ended up spending $80 I spent 5$ on one bottle of dye! Actually my mom bought the dye! Lol thanks!!
Omg yay!! I’m so glad to hear you gave it a try and it worked for you! I hope you enjoy your new rug! :)
love this idea! I have a teal and white area rug and it has been stained! This a great idea to refresh it!
Britney Certain it’s a great makeover and so fun to do too!!
GOOD JOB! I have a rug that I am trying to salvage and I am going to try this. Agreed on the rug pad! I just installed new wood flooring and I wouldn't like to die it by mistake!
Ah thank you so much!! You should definitely try it! My rug is still going strong and I love it!!
Thank you!!! I had an idea to fix mine this way too. Im glad someone else has tried it.
It’s a super fun project!!
Easy enough. Love the colors!
Thank you!
Hi! Loved your results! What kind of material is your rug? I am guessing the dye will only work for cotton or wool, right? Thank you for the video.
Patricia Panagides thank you!! It is 100% Viscose (Rayon)! It will definitely work in both natural and man made fibers, the color saturation will just vary. Hope you try it out soon! 😊
Just a side comment, If dying poly rugs with rit you will want to use their rit for synthetics. Using regular rit on a man made fiber will eventually bleed or wash out. I work with rugs for a living just to qualify my comment.
I liked everything you shared. Curious ... how is your grass after all the dye?
Thank Alline! Haha great question!! I was actually a little worried about how our grass would react but it was completely fine!! Like nothing ever happened! 😅
Thank you brilliant idea I'm going to give it a go.
I’m excited to hear how it turns out!! Good luck! :)
Going to try it!
Sally Wagle let me know how it turns out! It’s so fun!
@@MessinwithMeggie Hi Melissa, I dyed 2 rugs. First and all wool with tied wool tufts. I ruined it but I did learn. I tried another all wool with tied tufts that was mostly lighter blues. It had stains I couldn't get out. I didn't get it as saturated. It turned out great. I was handicapped with unusually wet weather. I would do it again with some changes. Thanks
Sally Wagle awesome! I’m glad to hear that one of them turned out well! Thanks for letting me know how it went! 😊
Love it!
What one did you use rit synthetic are which one thanks
I used Rit all purpose dye 😊
I bet your forearms were very sore from pumping that spray bottle! LOL. I have a shag I love that is peacock blue but has some silvery threads in it and I cant find a peacock blue shag any where that matches my freshly painted walls or think and plush like the one I have! What do you think the chances are of finding a peacock blue and if it would even work on shag! What about mixing colors? Do you think that would work! I have ordered 3 more rugs and none are as plush as the one I first bought! Yours looks great btw and where did you get the spray bottles?
Haha yes my forearms did hurt!! I would think that mixing colors would work just fine! I’ve never tried this on a shag rug but imagine it would work as well. You would probably have to comb some of the dye through, but should still work! I got my spray bottles at Walmart! Let me know how it turns out! 😊
How many bottles did you end up using?
Felicia Felicia hi! I only used one bottle of each color and still had a little left over! 😊
Did the dye come off on your feet, furniture or clothing at all after the process?
Tiffany Damle hi! It did until I rinsed it and vacuumed it several times! I did a test after it dried each time by rubbing my hand on it to see if the dye would transfer. The last time I rubbed a paper towel over it with no transfer and called it a day! Be sure to put a rug pad underneath to protect your floor in case of spills. The dye could still transfer if the rug gets wet! 😊
Wow thanks. You diid great 👍
No! Do not! Rit needs heat to set it, and will still be unstable, like it needs to be boiled in a pot for a good hour. Still will run. That’s on natural fibers which it’s made for.
Take it out on grass (maybe shampoo it) and spray it with watered down acrylic paint. Be very careful of overspray and wind. Rit doesn’t bind to polyester, which is plastic. Acrylic paint will. This looks like a short pile olefin rug and no dyes will bind to that.
It looks great! But I went to art school, we had to do chemistry of these things. You don’t want dye coming off in the house.
Hi! All of the above is actually true (I am a clothing designer) but it has actually worked out on this rug! There was definitely some dye transfer at first but after vacuuming well a few times, the dye has actually set well and doesn’t transfer at all. I’ve had it for about 3 years now, and with a rug pad underneath, I have had no issues! I use it in my office and walk on it all day everyday and never have any dye transfer. Definitely a good warning though, so thank you for sharing! 😊
Shouldn't u leave it in the sun?? You began dying it in the shade..did u let it dry in the sun after u were done spraying it?
Hi Kimberly! I did leave it in the sun to dry but shade would be fine too. The sun just makes it dry faster! :)
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I dumpster dive lol I always check everything that people put out on bulk day I am weird like that but yesterday I came across a brand new beautiful living room rug just not my taste I'm thinking what can I do with this I'm not gonna resell it cause when am I gonna get for it lol this video is everything to me.
Oh yay!!! Nothin wrong with a little dumpster diving! Let me know how it turns out!
I saw another video where they said to use hot water, but it looks like you didn't, and it turned out great. Could you please confirm the temperature of the water you mixed with the dye?
Felicia hi! I just used room temperature water because I was using liquid dye. If you were using powdered dye you would want to use hot water to make it dissolve properly! Let me know if you try it! 😊
@@MessinwithMeggie did you add salt oh, I didn't see it in the video how important is the salt are going to go to use?
@@martyca6 hi! I didn’t use salt. Just water and dye 😊
Cool!
Thank you!
Is this rug wool or synthetic? Thanks
Hi! It is a synthetic rug! 😊
Here's my concern with trying this. I have a large over-dyed carpet in my kitchen. As a high-traffic area, we keep it clean with a home carpet "steamer." The problem is, we've found that every time we use the carpet machine, it removes a little bit of the dye. And so after about 3 years, while the carpet is in great condition, it has faded considerable. So, with your technique, I'm guessing dying it would create the same issue when running a steam machine on it? I'm wonder if it might work if one locks in the color with Scotchguard or such?
Hi Philip! Great question! I would imagine that using a steam cleaner on it would continue to remove the dye over time. I would say trying scotch guard would be a great idea since it doesn’t affect the look or feel of what you apply it to! It couldn’t hurt to try! Let me know how it works out for you! 😊
If you soak the rug with a soda ash solution you won’t have that problem. People don’t use soda ash for tie dye and that’s why colors fade considerably
Looks fantastic my favourite colours
you have such pretty hair! I want to braid it!!
Katie Blake maybe we can be sisters!!!
Do I have to wash the rug after? Or no and do you think this will work on cowhide rugs because I have a white one I want to dye this color as a statement peace
Hey Chloe! I rinsed mine out with a garden hose outside several times until the water almost ran clear once the dye had set! I think you could definitely do this to a cowhide rug! Great idea! You will have to let me know how it turns out! 😊
Did the color bleed?
Martini Barss hi! So sorry I’m just seeing this! I rinsed the rug until the water ran clear and then vacuumed it several times and it has done great! We have blonde wood floors so I put a rug pad underneath just in case and it hasn’t rubbed off underneath at all! 😊
And here I go,wish me luck
Ahh so excited you tried it out! How did yours turn out?
@@MessinwithMeggie lol, not so super, it's laying outside half done in the rain, I gave up after about day 3 trying to get it to work right. Used like 4 different ways, paint, nothing worked as ide hoped.
@@ElohiSilverEarthVentures ahh I’m so sorry to hear that!! What a bummer!
@@MessinwithMeggie meh, it was a known experiment and the rug was a cheap ugly rug I wanted to toss anyways, it was for the experience to see what works or doesn't and I suppose I learn more what doesn't work than anything that does, lol. I did have hopes it'd work tho, wanted it to, just not this time,I'll be trying again with it over the summer when I can hose it off and have more outdoor space to do it. I'll let ya know how my second try goes though
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You women with the word journey. Going to the grocery store is a fuckin journey
Haha you are correct! I do, in fact, love a good grocery store journey! 😊
Film in landscape.
Hi Dristin! Haha yes, how annoying is it that I filmed this in portrait?! It was my first time filming a RUclips video and I didn't realize I had been filming in portrait until half way through! Thankfully, I figured that out by the second video! Lol Thanks for watching!! :)
the word "whenever" does not mean the same thing as "when"
Hi there! Thank you for the English lesson 😊
lmao jesus christ 😂
who’s to say she wasn’t inferring that at some unspecified time in the future, she may dye the rug again, and, in that case, she would of course vacuum it prior to spraying. every time she wishes to dye the rug, she will have to vacuum prior to spraying. WHENEVER she sprays the rug, she vacuums it first. hmmmmmmmmm? 😂
@@erinkusch7322 lol thank you!! 🤣
Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate overdying! I'm so excited about rescuing my stained area rug!
Thank you!! Good luck with your rug! :)
Despite how some of the details on the rug disappeared from the dying it still ended up looking pretty nice. Good job 👍
Thank you! It was a fun project!
I think it looks wonderful! She did a great job!
does the dye bleed on floors? can it get wet?
Hi there! I would not recommend getting the rug wet and I would definitely put a rug pad down underneath to avoid direct contact with your floors just in case! So far though, I have had no issues with dye transferring and I walk on it every day. I do, however, have a rug pad underneath! Hope that helps! :)
Love this. I have an old rug in our my husband's shop for my sounds game room and this would be great to hide all the yuck. But my question is when you walk barefoot on it after a while did you get blue feet?
Once you finish rinsing, drying, and vacuuming it will not turn your feet blue! :)
Is that all of the rit dye you used? 1 bottle of each?
Yes! Just one bottle of each! :)
Thank you so much! Lol- I have an area rug I’m in love with and a runner that is NEEDED but cannot find anything to match or coordinate! Imma try this!
Ty I’m
Unsure why bed bath and beyond would/should replace your rug when you spilled stuff on it… but this is great and I appreciate this!
Scotchguard it.
Great suggestion! You could definitely scotchguard it!
so pretty! lemons into lemonade!
I don't like the dark blue rim..but I like the middle color!!
Love it but you always put water first then the chemical.
Would a wet and dry vacuum work to remove the excess dye if I cannot take the rug outside to rinse it?
Hi Stephanie! I would think it would work! I haven’t tried it myself but don’t see why it wouldn’t! Great idea! 😊
Beautiful
I dyed my bath rugs from light Pink to coral came out great thanks ❤ looks new
Yay!! So happy to hear it worked for you! 😊
Awesome, thanks!
I have a question: does the dye ever stain the floor beneath it? Thanks
Hi Bella! I have a rug pad underneath to prevent this from happening, so I'm not sure. I would definitely suggest putting some kind of barrier between the rug and your floor just in case! :)
I'm curious about how the dye is performing a year out. Im thinking of trying this on a rug myself. 🤔
Is the dye fast?
Could you walk on it with white socks and not turn them blue?
Did the dye transfer to the padding beneath? 😊
Hi there! I’m so sorry I’m just seeing your comment! It took me a few days to complete just due to drying times but yes it is actually pretty fast! And yes I am able to walk on it without turning my socks or feet blue but I rinsed and vacuumed it very thoroughly! The dye has not transferred to the pad but I would definitely recommend using one in case of spills causing dye transfer. I hope you try it out! 😊
Thank you for this. Love your new rug
Nice video
WARNING: rug must be wool polyester will not dye
Hi there! Thanks for the feedback. In some situations what you say here is true. This rug, however, did in fact dye quite well. I still use it on a daily basis and it does not rub off on your feet or the floor, but yes, always do your own research. :)
@@MessinwithMeggie this rug in the video is polyester?
Love it!
Thank you!
Actually unreal 😍
Ah thanks so much!! It was a super fun project and it’s still my favorite rug in our house! 😍
Excellent!! I have a white shag rug I was going to trash.
Give it a shot! I'd love to hear how it turns out!
@@MessinwithMeggie FYI. I watched a few videos after yours and yours was the most comprehensive
Ta ta awesome! Thanks so much for letting me know! I’m happy to hear it was helpful! 😊
Brilliant idea.
Thanks so much!
@@MessinwithMeggie I always see those ugly rugs in the resale store this would be a good way to flip them. It only required 3 bottles of dye right?
@@TheKonnoisseur11 exactly!! Yep! And you don’t even necessarily have to use three! I just wanted three different colors. I only used partial bottles of each but it would depend on how large the rug was!