DIY Faux cowhide rug

I reallllyyyyy wanted a cowhide rug for the guest room, but after searching high and low all I found were hides that were way outside my budget [$100]. I even searched for fake cowhides which were either still high priced or were way too small. I was starting to feel like maybe I should find something else instead when alas I stumbled upon this post from Hometalk about how to DIY a cowhide rug for less than $50! I was sold.

Immediately I went to Fabric.com and searched "cow" . It came up with a bunch of options, all of which looked awesome.

After a little back and forth I decided on this one as I think it is more the color/style I had originally planned on.

I followed the instructions and ordered 2.5 yards. Now, the post says you can make it under $50 but my fabric came to just over that at $52.37 so maybe you cant make it under $50 but you can definitely make it for around $50. Same difference to me. Moving on, I literally just followed teh tutorial by folding the fabric in half...

drew on the shape I wanted....

cut the shape out...

unfolded the fabric and did a heat seal around the edges to keep it from fraying...

and voila!

This project took less than half and hour and only cost me a fraction of the cost for real one, win-win for me. To see it in action check out the guest room reveal... coming up next!

xoxo,
Jackie