Spray Paint Faux Wood Blinds

I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment.

Spray paint faux wood blinds.

The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint. Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient.

I used two trestles and some leftover wood. 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. These vinyl blinds were yellowed from years of sun exposure but w. It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully.

But not today. Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. Please look at my other video on how. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.

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. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Another short video this time on how to spray wooden blinds and transform the look of your home at a very cheap price. We were on a super tight budget when remodeling the house so spending close to 100 for new blinds in that room was out.

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. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. This is not a complicated tutorial. The most dramatic change i ve ever made with spray paint is when i decided to spray paint our blinds in our living room.

Enjoy your newly painted blinds. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Painting blinds is a quick and easy way to give your windows a whole new look on a budget. Painting blinds is such a cheap and easy way to update your existing window coverings.

We have a few more sets of blinds like these throughout the house and they ll all be getting a fresh coat of paint. I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. Use what you have on hand.

Mine look brand new and it only cost me a couple cans of spray paint.