Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. Yes you can paint wooden blinds.

Attach blinds to window brackets. Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. 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.

And then spray until the brown is gone. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier. Then we tried to do a few laying down.

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. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat. 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.

One advantage of this approach. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.

If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords. 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.