Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

And then spray until the brown is gone.

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. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again. Yes you can paint wooden 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.

You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard.

If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. 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. I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. One advantage of this approach.

Attach blinds to window brackets. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords. In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. Then we tried to do a few laying down. Use what you have on hand. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.