Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

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

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. 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.

If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. And then spray until the brown is gone. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat. It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way.

In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Attach blinds to window brackets. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.

I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. 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. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom.

Then we tried to do a few laying down. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds. One advantage of this approach.

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. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours.