How To Paint A Rug on Tile 

              A tile pattern that looks like a rug!

^{A faux rug is the solution to creating whimsy with a little trick to the eye 
when people realize they are standing on artwork....not a real "rug".}

                                

                  "The detailed fringe is gorgeous!  I used colors to 
      match   my bathroom colors and it was really fun seeing it 
                     come together as I applied the paints".
  

                      
                              HOW THE IDEA BEGAN

      In 1989 I had been in a car accident and hurt my back.  As a result I wasn't able to work as an Interior Designer.  I took up painting tile and tableware while I was recovering and fell in love with it. So did my friends,  they all ordered Christmas presents!

      I decided to start Tile Art Ltd. January 1, 1989.  However,  I needed to advertise and my budget wouldn't allow for it.  So I decided to donate my work where it would get high exposure.

As an Interior Designer I knew the Baltimore Decorator Symphony Show House was opening in April so I called the designer doing the bathroom and offered to donate my work. 
When I went to look at her bathroom it was nearly complete but the floor wasn't in yet.

 I suggested a rug to match the fabric and the rug fringe to match the ceiling border around the room.

     A few weeks later I got a call from 
 Better Homes and Gardens magazine
 and they asked my permission to print
 an article on my unique business and the rug!  

     Over the next year it was in
 Beautiful Baths,  Bedroom and Bath 
and Kitchen and Bath.

When the show house opened it was a huge hit.  
People would stop in surprise and laugh as they noticed it was 
tile painted to look like a rug.