Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

And then spray until the brown is gone.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way.

Attach blinds to window brackets. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.

One advantage of this approach. If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours.

For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords. 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. Then we tried to do a few laying down. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.

In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. Yes you can paint wooden blinds. I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. Use what you have on hand. 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.