Each month I look forward to the Pinterest Challenge. I’m so excited to be back into the swing of things and participating again. With fall knocking on the door, I decided this was a great excuse to make some more fall decor items for my home. This month I decided to embrace the buffalo check and the layered doormat look… With a custom pumpkin doormat!
Layered Look
Have you seen the layered doormat look? It’s all over Pinterest and Instagram. Since we enlarged our front porch a few years back, I have felt like doormats have looked so small. I knew it would be a great look on our porch. And while I wasn’t planning on embracing the buffalo check trend, I just kept coming back to it! Here are two of my favorites:
I now want a wood front door too!
Finding a large buffalo check doormat was easy. It was also easy to return the 3 non-buffalo check ones I bough before giving in to it! The hard part was finding the top doormat… I found ones I liked at prices I wasn’t willing to pay… and ones I didn’t like at prices I was willing to pay…
Time to make my own pumpkin doormat!
Pumpkin Doormat
Dollar Tree always has plain dark gray doormats. I cut a few up for my bat mats a few years ago. Sometimes I keep a few on hand for when really nasty weather is predicted! Very basic:
Around this time of year, they also have felt pumpkins…
For $2.00, I figured it was worth trying to make my own custom pumpkin doormat. Using painters tape, I taped all the edges of the felt pumpkin.
Using a knife, I cut along the edges of the pumpkin, leaving the tape in the negative space.
After pressing the tape down as firmly as possible, I started painting with chalk paint I already had on hand. Once the first coat had sunk in, I layered on more paint. And removed the tape!
My own custom pumpkin doormat in my favorite color!
Funny thing is, I think the little doormat would have been lost and not nearly as awesome looking without the buffalo check rug underneath it!
And, I might have decided to use a little more buffalo check to pull the whole look together.
Now, let’s see what everyone else has been up to making from their Pinterest inspirations.
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Want to remember this? Pin this DIY Pumpkin Doormat tutorial to your favorite Pinterest board!
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