Cut up a $5 rug (GENIUS storage hack!)

It's time to head down to Five Below to grab you one of them inexpensive rugs, But first, why don't we grab some hula hoops?Show more

We're gonna need to spray paint those your favorite color. I wanted this to be a nice little teal color because it's going to match the inside of our house. I'm gonna need two hula hoops.

Once you give that some time to dry, bring it on inside, set your hula hoop down, and we need two pieces of board, this one is what we call a one-by-three, which means it's three inches wide and only one inch thick. I'm going to mark it exactly where I want to cut it on the hula hoop.

I'm going to set this over here at about 33 degrees and give it a cut right on those marks, that way it's beveled exactly with the hula hoop. Now, I'm going to use this to measure the next one and make sure that I have two pieces. Once we got those cut, bring them back inside. You're going to set those exactly the same distance apart from the top and the bottom. This video doesn't do it justice, I promise that they're both evenly spaced.

Once you get them spaced, let's go ahead and mark the ones on the bottom hula hoop and I'll explain why we've got to put some hot glue down. I know hot glue is just temporary but that's exactly what we're going to use it for, just temporary to hold the wood in place on the bottom hula hoop, so just get it, put a little dab on there and place it, make sure it's equal distance on both of them from the top and the bottom. Once you get that set up go ahead and place the top one on. You're going to make sure it's matched perfectly to the one on the bottom. Pre-drill it, and use a screw that will go through the hula hoop into the wood. It doesn't have to be too long, just enough to grip it.

Once we do that, let's lay that rug out that we got at Five Below. We're gonna take the hula hoop and lay it out on there. This one has a design in the middle and I want it right centered in front of there, so take a black marker and go ahead and mark around the hula hoop right on the inside because that's going to be our cut line. We want to cut it right down that black marker and I was really shocked at how well it cut. We're going to go ahead and lay it out, but remember, you got to turn it upside down because this is going to be the back of our project. Lay it out and again and it's time to grab that hot glue. We're going to go ahead and put this down, it's going to tack it down for us. Don't go sparingly with it, go ahead and put a lot down and that way you can smooth it out. The rug was just thick enough where I wasn't too worried about burning myself with the glue. Go ahead and put this up and then it's time to go ahead on the front and put some hooks on and I'll show you why we're going to do that just some simple hooks will be great. Let's hang it up. Now, remember those screws that we use, let's hide those with a little string from Dollar Tree and it's time to decorate.

Look at this project, it's a great command center for the front door, perfect for holding any decorations. I hope this inspired you to build your own DIY hula hoop command center.

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