DIY Wall Paneling from a Surprising Material

Do the proportions of these grass cloth wall panels look familiar? Well, they just might when you find out what they're made of:

Yoga mats! What an easy way to add texture to a wall. These grass cloth yoga mats were framed with a little painted wood trim and are now an architectural detail in the room.

Read more about the yoga mats and the rest of the home in House Beautiful.

Images: Simon Upton/House Beautiful

Comments (9)

This is totally besides the point, but wouldn't it be kind of difficult to do yoga on grasscloth?

I'm not so keen on the mats, but whoever selected that curved light fixture in the living room was brilliant!

Thumbs down for the mats, but the rest is impressive!

I like!

Is it possible those are some kind of tatami mat? I can't imagine doing yoga on those, either, creativeneurosis.

I think these are
http://pearlriver.com/asp/v2Detail3.asp?iPic=12929&iGroup=
which are tatami mats. I imagine the wood trim is there to disguise the green cloth binding.

Or these, which are indeed called Yoga Mats. For masochists, apparently.
http://pearlriver.com/asp/v2Detail3.asp?iPic=15238&iGroup=

My first thought was beach mats

yeah, didn't think these were yoga mats either...