Do-it-yourself bath mat

Most often, the floors in the bathroom are decorated with tiles. But, unfortunately, even on the hottest day it remains too cold, which gives the owners of the house additional discomfort. In addition, the tile is very slippery, which is incredibly dangerous, which is why experts recommend using additional rugs - they are sold in all plumbing and household goods stores. But why spend the family budget once again if you can make an original, unusual, pleasant, comfortable bare-foot bath mat in the bathroom yourself. In this article, we will consider the simplest, most successful, interesting ideas for creating similar products from improvised materials that are in any home.

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River pebble rug

You can make a do-it-yourself bath mat not only incredibly beautiful, but also beneficial to your health. How to achieve a beneficial effect? You do not need any special expensive products. It is enough to prepare river or sea pebbles of a suitable color to create this unusual accessory.

Everything is done quite simply:

• You just need to sew the stones with nylon threads to the fabric base and mesh.
• There is an even simpler method. You can pour pebbles into a shallow plastic tray to the edges, then just paint the sides in a suitable color. As a result, you will get such an unusual product that it’s nice to get up on your feet after taking a shower or a hot bath.

Important! Such a rug is quite practical, since water drains quickly, pebbles can be washed and dried freely.

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Wine cork ware

Do-it-yourself bath mat is also simply made, because the main material used to create it is quite simple to use. To make one stylish and warm accessory, you will need about two hundred pieces of corks of the same shape and size.

Important! Find traffic jams is not difficult, you can buy them in a special store or pick them up after the holidays. They are inexpensive, such a mat will cost much less than a factory-made one. But your bathroom will become more original.

Instructions for the manufacture of cork bedding:

1. Carefully cut each cork in half. The flat side is flush with the floor for maximum safety.
2. Sand the rough side with sandpaper.
3. Using strong twine or kapron thread, connect the corks, fit them in rows.
4. Fasten all the rows together so that you get a durable canvas of the desired shape.

Important! The product will turn out to be pleasant to the touch, flexible, it is incredibly convenient to walk on it. Moreover, the main material is not afraid of moisture, it is easy to clean. Such an unusual surface provides a light massage effect, so the thing is definitely useful.

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Bath mat made of yarn

Yarn is great for making comfortable and stylish bath sheets. The work is creative, simple, interesting, you can even attract a child to it - it will be with great pleasure to help make bright and soft pompons for the future product.

This do-it-yourself bath mat is created according to the following scheme:

1. Prepare more yarn of several colors, scissors, blank paper, knitting hook.
2. Cut the same circles out of paper that play the role of blanks.
3. Make holes in the center of the workpieces, pull the threads through them.
4. Tightly thread the workpieces to the desired thickness.
5. Cut the threads along the outer edge. Make beautiful pompons out of strands.
6. Fasten the finished balls with threads.
7. Assemble a rug of any shape you want with a dense fabric with non-slip properties. Pompons are simply attached to it.

Important! If you show a little imagination, you can make a litter in the form of a bright watermelon or starfish. The simplest option is a rectangle of multi-colored pompons.

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Litter of old T-shirts

Now you will learn how to sew a rug in the bathroom with your own hands from old t-shirts and shirts that no one has been wearing for a long time. Of course, you should not throw them away, it is better to use this raw material to create a beautiful and warm product for the floor.

You will need the following materials to work:

• Several old T-shirts of different colors.
• Threads.
• Scissors.
• Knitting needles and hooks.
• Sewing machine.

There are two manufacturing options - it all depends on what result you want to get:

• Knitted rugs. Before starting work, all shirts must be cut into thin strips. During cutting, it is recommended to stretch them slightly so that they align and twist slightly towards the middle. The resulting shoelaces should be wound into a ball. Further, it all depends on the intended purpose. You can knit according to any chosen pattern.

Important! If you have not knitted before, then it is better to simply twist thick bundles into a pigtail. Then, starting from the center, twist them in a spiral in order to get an unusual and soft accessory of oblong or round shape.

• Using a sewing machine. In addition to strips of shirts, have to prepare the base. A piece of durable rubberized or non-slip fabric cut in the shape of a future product is suitable for this. After that, the obtained strips are attached to the base on a typewriter in tight rows. It is necessary to fold each strip in half and go along the line in the midline.

Important! All rows should be tight so that the pile is not rare. Due to this, the doormat in the toilet will turn out fluffy and soft.

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Mat made of polyethylene

A huge amount of unnecessary bright packages accumulated at your place after numerous shopping trips? You will be surprised, but from them you can make an original doormat for your bathroom. The master class below will tell you how to complete this work, spending a minimum of free time.

Prepare the following tools and materials:

• Soft, thin multi-colored bags that can be easily twisted.
• Iron.
• Scissors.
• Knitting needles or crochet hook.

The scheme for creating a polyethylene rug looks like this:

1. Prepare the packages. Cut them into thin strips, approximately 1 cm wide.
2. Form long strips from plastic blanks.
3. Fasten individual elements with an iron.
4. Roll the resulting threads into balls for convenience in future work.
5. Knit or crochet a product from blanks in a simple pattern: single crochet.

Important! If you use packages of several colors, then you will get beautiful rugs with the selected pattern. Choose the size at your discretion, but it will turn out to be durable, not absorbing moisture. The cost of manufacturing such an accessory is inexpensive, you will have to spend only a little time.

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Felt Product

Probably the easiest way to make a fleece rug with your own hands, or use felt. These materials are excellent for our purpose - they do not crumble during the cutting process, do not deform, and lend themselves to any actions of needlewomen. Non-standard, bright products are obtained from them.

To make them, it is enough to cut out a fantasy applique from the selected material. That is, a segment of any shape, even the most unusual.You don’t even need a sewing machine, because hand stitches look much better and add charm to finished products.

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Massage mat made of plastic covers

If you collect several hundred caps from plastic bottles for sweet drinks or drinking water, you can make a litter with a massage effect, worthy of all praise:

• The covers simply need to be glued to the rubber base with the bottoms down.
• To fix them, you can use silicone glue.

Important! To make the product look more cheerful, it is better to use covers of different colors.

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Silicone bath mat

A great idea for the bathroom is a silicone do-it-yourself rug, because such a product works well in terms of operation in high humidity. Such products are easy to clean and dry quickly. You can buy such an accessory in the store, but if there are little children at home, then you can make one original rug from several blanks of different colors:

• Get 3-4 pieces of multi-colored silicone litter.
• From them cut out the elements reminiscent of the details of the puzzle.

Important! It is better to mark lines for cuts with a marker or pencil.

• Then simply glue the parts together using a glue gun.

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There are still a large number of techniques for creating such products at home. As it turned out, there is nothing difficult in making a do-it-yourself bath mat from knitwear, silicone, pebbles, yarn, felt, polyethylene, wine or plastic corks. Just make a little effort and express your own imagination.