Spray Paint Wood Blinds

And then spray until the brown is gone.

Spray paint wood blinds.

The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. I have 30 year old wooden blinds that are still in very good shape. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.

Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room. Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister. Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white. I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

They looked good when the room had a rustic theme. This is not a complicated tutorial. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.

Then we tried to do a few laying down. 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. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient. The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint.

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. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. Use what you have on hand. 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.

It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully. 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. Now the room is silver gray and i d like to paint them white. I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything.

Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house.