Spray Paint Wood Blinds

And then spray until the brown is gone.

Spray paint wood blinds.

It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully. Use what you have on hand. Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister. Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room.

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. Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. But not today. Then we tried to do a few laying down.

Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient. I have 30 year old wooden blinds that are still in very good shape. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

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. 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. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings.

Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything. They looked good when the room had a rustic theme.

Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment.

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