Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

Use what you have on hand.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings. Attach blinds to window brackets. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.

You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. Then we tried to do a few laying down.

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. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom.

Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way. 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. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. 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. Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat.

One advantage of this approach. 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. Yes you can paint wooden blinds. In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one.