Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

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.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Use what you have on hand. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. And then spray until the brown is gone.

Then we tried to do a few laying down. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.

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. Attach blinds to window brackets. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me.

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. In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. 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.

Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. Yes you can paint wooden blinds. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds.

One advantage of this approach. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings.