Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room.
Spray paint wood blinds.
Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.
Then we tried to do a few laying down.
We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.
Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house.
I want our bamboo blinds to be a natural color but the building rules only allow white or cream window treatment.
Thanks to you i got the courage to spray paint one side of the blinds white.
Now the room is silver gray and i d like to paint them white.
The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.
I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me.
Here are some tips to make the job easier and more efficient.
But not today.
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.
They looked good when the room had a rustic theme.
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.
And then spray until the brown is gone.
This is not a complicated tutorial.
The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings.
Use what you have on hand.
I d imagine it s the same level of difficulty as spray painting just about anything.
Allow the slats to dry for the recommended period of time stated on the primer canister.
I used two trestles and some leftover wood.
You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.
I have 30 year old wooden blinds that are still in very good shape.
The weather tends to be against me each time i try to spray paint.
It was my first spray paint job and it went beautifully.