Spray Paint Faux Wood Blinds

The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint.

Spray paint faux wood blinds.

Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. The most dramatic change i ve ever made with spray paint is when i decided to spray paint our blinds in our living room. You don t want paint on the strings or to spend hours trying to paint around them so the real trick in painting blinds is to take the slats off the strings. This is not a complicated tutorial.

Enjoy your newly painted blinds. Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. Painting blinds is such a cheap and easy way to update your existing window coverings. We were on a super tight budget when remodeling the house so spending close to 100 for new blinds in that room was out.

These vinyl blinds were yellowed from years of sun exposure but w. Please look at my other video on how. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient.

Painting blinds is a quick and easy way to give your windows a whole new look on a budget. When deciding to spray paint what you have instead of buying new you need to calculate the cost of supplies and your time as to whether that outweighs the expense of new blinds. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment. They were already sturdy and in good condition anyway just ugly.

Mine look brand new and it only cost me a couple cans of spray paint. Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. Use what you have on hand.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. Another short video this time on how to spray wooden blinds and transform the look of your home at a very cheap price. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. But not today.

And then spray until the brown is gone. It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully. If you ever decide to change the color of your blinds you may choose to paint them saving you the cost of buying new blinds. We have a few more sets of blinds like these throughout the house and they ll all be getting a fresh coat of paint.

You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.