Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. Attach blinds to window brackets. 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. 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.

Then we tried to do a few laying down. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly.

You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.

One advantage of this approach. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. Use what you have on hand. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard.

In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me.

Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings. And then spray until the brown is gone. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords.