Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

I used two trestles and some leftover wood.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

Attach blinds to window brackets. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds.

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. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly.

I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat. 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. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.

It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way. One advantage of this approach. Yes you can paint wooden blinds. If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth.

Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. 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. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.

Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings. 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. Then we tried to do a few laying down. And then spray until the brown is gone.