Can U Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

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

Can u spray paint wooden blinds. It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way. Shake the spray can for a minute or two. Attach blinds to window brackets. Choose a particular type of primer depending on the condition of the blinds.

And then spray until the brown is gone. A painted finish will not stick to your wood blinds unless they are pretreated with a primer base coat. However it will not stick to stained blinds. A latex spray primer is sufficient for bare wood blinds.

Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Otherwise feel free to use a plastic primer along with a standard spray paint. Gently lift off the stencil and allow the paint to dry.

I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again. Then spray the blinds beginning and ending each paint burst beyond the edge of the blinds to help prevent drips. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. No primer is required for some plastic spray paints.

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. In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. 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.

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. Use what you have on hand. Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings.