Spray Paint Faux Wood Blinds

We were on a super tight budget when remodeling the house so spending close to 100 for new blinds in that room was out.

Spray paint faux wood blinds.

This is not a complicated tutorial. These vinyl blinds were yellowed from years of sun exposure but w. Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.

But not today. 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. 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. I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. Mine look brand new and it only cost me a couple cans of spray paint. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Use what you have on hand.

We have a few more sets of blinds like these throughout the house and they ll all be getting a fresh coat of paint. The most dramatic change i ve ever made with spray paint is when i decided to spray paint our blinds in our living room. Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment.

I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient. 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. Please look at my other video on how.

The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint. It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully. They were already sturdy and in good condition anyway just ugly. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.

Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Another short video this time on how to spray wooden blinds and transform the look of your home at a very cheap price. And then spray until the brown is gone.

Painting blinds is a quick and easy way to give your windows a whole new look on a budget.