Spray Paint Wood Blinds

Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister.

Spray paint wood blinds.

The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me.

I used two trestles and some leftover wood. 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. Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. They looked good when the room had a rustic theme.

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. Then we tried to do a few laying down. We tried cream spray paint to see if that would go quicker but came back to this chalktype paint process because we liked it the best. It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully.

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. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient.

Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. Now the room is silver gray and i d like to paint them white. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. Use what you have on hand.

Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. And then spray until the brown is gone. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment. I have 30 year old wooden blinds that are still in very good shape.

But not today.