Spray Paint Faux Wood Blinds

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Spray paint faux wood blinds.

Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room. I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside. But not today.

If you ever decide to change the color of your blinds you may choose to paint them saving you the cost of buying new blinds. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. We were on a super tight budget when remodeling the house so spending close to 100 for new blinds in that room was out. We have a few more sets of blinds like these throughout the house and they ll all be getting a fresh coat of paint.

And then spray until the brown is gone. They were already sturdy and in good condition anyway just ugly. Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient. 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. This is not a complicated tutorial. I used two trestles and some leftover wood. Enjoy your newly painted blinds.

Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister. 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 spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white.

The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint. The most dramatic change i ve ever made with spray paint is when i decided to spray paint our blinds in our living room. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. These vinyl blinds were yellowed from years of sun exposure but w.

I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything. It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully. Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house. Painting blinds is such a cheap and easy way to update your existing window coverings.

Painting blinds is a quick and easy way to give your windows a whole new look on a budget.