Finishing all the small jobs this week wasn’t as fun as doing the larger jobs.  I wonder why?  This is week 4 of the $100 Room Challenge  hosted by Erin over at Lemons, Lavender and Laundry.   This week I thought I would share what we have been working on since the last time I shared the room with you.   Next week will be the big reveal.  So exciting!  To give you a reminder of what our entryway looked like on Week 1.

Hey there, welcome to week 4 of the entryway makeover.  If you are just joining me on the challenge you can click on my progress below.

WEEK 1 | WEEK 2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | REVEAL DAY

 

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Before I get to my rug makeover I want to share what else I have been doing in the room during Week 4. One, changing out the light switches and plug-in from almond to white.  The existing plates didn’t look so pretty against the white walls, can’t believe I kept them almond when I painted the faux shiplap. 🙁

Mr. Tip was very kind to do the change outs for me.  We shopped Home Depot for all the new switches, plugin and plates.

Patting my back still on how well my trimming turned out around the switches.

Next I tackled our coat closet, for a closet we hardly use it sure stays messy.  I decided to clean out the closet and get rid of some coats we don’t wear.  Didn’t do anything exciting in the closet just straightened it up.

I also added some heavy duty coat hooks to the wall.  There are so many different ways to add coat hooks so I was stumped.  I decided to use only 5 of the 6 hooks I purchased, placing three centered on the first horizontal board and 2 on the second board.

OK, now to the rug.   Instead of going out and buying a rug, I decided to take the rug that was in the room and dress it up with a design and color.  I had this idea of using RIT dye and painting the dye onto the rug.  I went to Walmart to purchase the dye.  Came home all geared up to start on the rug.  I found a design I wanted for the rug, using painters tape I taped off the design.  Wasn’t so hard, I just took a piece of cardboard and taped around the cut out.

Using a spray bottle I sprayed the rug to get it wet.  I applied the RIT dye onto the rug with a stiff brush.  Rubbing it in to make sure all the fibers were covered.

I made sure I covered the edges, as well.

Once I had the exposed rug all painted I removed the tape.

It looks amazing and exactly how I wanted it to look.  Super!

Applying some heat to the painted area with my heat gun.  Making sure each section got heat to it.

I let it set over night.  I took it outside and turned it upside down to spray the rug with a garden hose to remove all the excess dye.  It isn’t a type of rug you can place in the washing machine.  I clamped it to my saw horses and started rinsing it down with cold water.  My thought was, if it was upside down the dye would run right off and not seep onto the undyed part.  Wasn’t that smart thinking?

I continued to spray the rug with water until the water was running off clear. I was anxious to turn the rug over to see the results…

 

 

WAIT FOR IT…….

 

 

 

UGH!  All the work of taping and painting!   Oh well, live and learn, right?  What I could do is dye the whole rug a solid color, but I decided to just let it dry and give it to our neighbor, he is always needing carpet to use in his workshop.

Let’s take a look at the budget so far…

• Coat hooks – $13.99 package of 6
• Light switches, plug-in and plates $6.61
• Organized and clean closet – $0
• Week 1 – goals = $0
• Week 2 – installed board and batten = $29.30
• Week 3 – built a custom bench = $39.99

Total expense so far = $89.89

 

 

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Let’s see where the rest of the participates are in their rooms.