Start painting the blinds by spraying the paint in even coats using an up or down motion and continuing in the same direction all throughout the whole blind surface.
Spray paint fabric vertical blinds.
Having a spray paint can in my hand always makes me feel decoratively powerful.
Vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.
You may need to slip a credit card between the slat and the fabric to get it going.
If the fabric is scuffed up and fluffy look for a water based acrylic fabric spray paint and wet the fabric down first to flatten it.
When it comes to transforming anything lickety split spray paint is always my go to.
You will need 2 or 3 coats because fabric absorbs the paint very quickly and it will dry lighter than the color you paint.
If yours have the insert pull it out before you start painting.
Some vertical blinds have a fabric insert while others are just fabric on one side and vinyl on the other.
You know how we can be in a hurry sometimes well too often.
So maybe add about 1 part water to 4 parts paint.
Whether vinyl or fabric vertical blinds can be transformed with a coat of paint.
Once it is dry flip the blinds over and apply a coat of paint to the front of the blinds.
Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds.
So i decided to try and spray paint it.
For extra depth try lightly.
Specialty paints designed to adhere to the specific type of surface such as fabric paints for fabric or spray.
But for my window blinds i really needed to take them even further than where spray paint alone could take them.
At this point i decided to let the blinds dry overnight as they basically had 4 layers of paint primer on them.
You may even need more water.
How to paint blinds.
I needed to get this done fast and there was no way i would take down my blinds piece by piece to paint it.
I really wanted to punch up the fearless fun and funky factor.
You will also use more paint for a fabric project compared to doing a wood dresser.
Mar 15 2015 vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.
Remove the fabric insert from fabric blinds.
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Think about it the fabric project will be absorbing paint where the wood dresser would not.