How To Make a Bathmat out of Towels

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Meg: Why hello there, I am Meg welcome to dÃ©cor it yourself. One room you spend a surprising amount of time in is your bagnio lieu bathroom. Over on the forums Izzy_loves_cake and penguin wrote and asking for dÃ©cor help in their restrooms. Aimee loves trees has towel overload and needs ways to use them. Aim33m suggests spreading them together to make a rug. So this week we are making a DIY bath mat. Take your old towels and whatever colors or sizes you have measure how long and wide you want your rug to be and leave about two inches extra around the perimeter. Now take a pair of scissors and start cutting your strips. My strips are five inches wide.

You want all of your strips to be the exact same width. Carefully cutout all of your strips. Now take the horizontal strips and lay them out flat. Now cut your vertical strips. Carefully cutout all of your strips as straight as possible. Take your vertical strips and start weaving them together one at a time. Over, under, over, under and repeat. Now, take your pins and pin along the way to keep all of the strips together. Weave all of your pieces together pulling the fabric top and pinning along the way. Once you have all of your pieces woven together you will finish the edges by folding the extra flaps under and pinning.

You will then sew this close so that the rug is finished on each side making it reversible. Make sure your woven rug is pinned and secured and then bring that puppy over the sewing machine. You are going to sew in a grid pattern. So the perimeter of your rug first. Then sew a line down, each and every woven strip. Do this vertically and horizontally. Sew until every single square is secured by a top stitch. You have a brand new bath mat. Make sure you get all the pins out.

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Check out how Nestor KellesBelles crocheted her old towels together to create a brand new bath mat of your own recycled, and fabulous. Go check out gogodistro.com and see how Emily has a cool tutorial of a fabric covered scale. Still have extra towels? Learn from auto cannibalism and make your own bath towel robe. Looks cozy. Over on instructables Noah shows us to never to run out of toilet paper in an off beat kind of way.

Male: This is my restroom. I am sure one thing you will notice is I am pretty big quite thousand under the sea fan. That is from Disney Land the exhibit in the 50s. Over here we have the poster from the ride that extinct ride at Disney World. Schematics from the blue prints of the submarine lots of great stuff is very fun. This is from the 20,000 sea ride in Tokyo. This is a certificate from a guy who used to work on the 20,000 sea ride in Florida. This is an original crew members hat pin. Nemo's dad recovered from the wreck of Novels it is real. This is a model of the ride submarine and the model of the submarine from the movie.

These are coins from the ride in Disney World. This is the actual seahorse from the ride in Disney World that a guy when it was being demolished pulled out for me. And this is a commemorative coin that this guy here made. And they are only for people who were crew members on the ride but I am the excemption. This is some lighting I put in recently which I really like at night we do not want to be glaring light on.

The aquarium makes great sea models. This is like a waves light maker that I ordered from Japan that, it has to be totally black in here but it makes like waves on the ceiling. This Chinese spouting bowl. This I found at Home Depot this was a really hard one to find because I have not have elongated toilet. The overhand and underhand rolls, overhand is always ahead I think it is just the scientifically superior way to go and it is classic.
This is seaweed from the 20,000 sea ride and I can go learn more about all of that at 20kride.com

Meg: This week's quick tip, use vinegar as an all natural toilet bowl cleaner. Just pour, let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes and flush. Now you have a clean toilet without adding any chemicals into the water.

Thanks for joining us, do not forget to leave us a comment below or just go ahead and send me a photo or a video of your home dÃ©cor products. Until next week, remember your nest needs you.