For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords.
Can wood blinds be painted.
On mar 27 2019.
Paint wooden blinds freshen up a room change your decor and give new life to old blinds.
I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me.
What would i use.
We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.
Use what you have on hand.
Painting your blinds will also add personality to the room.
The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.
We have a few more sets of blinds like these throughout the house and they ll all be getting a fresh coat of paint.
If i were doing this project i d probably use spray paint.
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 the slats need to be removed before painting soooo he jumped right in there s a knot at the bottom of the blind with a wooden cap holding it all together this has to be removed so the 2 cords that run through all of the slats can be removed.
One advantage of this approach is that you.
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.
You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.
Replace all of the hardware and reassemble the blinds.
For the cost of a can of paint you can change the look of your blinds rather than replacing them which can be expensive.
It may seem daunting at first however there is a simple method for disassembling wooden blinds that will.
Mine look brand new and it only cost me a couple cans of spray paint.
On mar 27 2019.
If you have wooden blinds you can completely change their look without replacing them.
And then spray until the brown is gone.
I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.
I want to paint my white faux wood blinds.
Faux wood blinds add an element of elegance to any room in your house.
In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one.
I m so glad we didn t just throw them away.
Yes you can paint wooden blinds.
After you pull the cords up and out the slats are left positioned in little hammocks.
Painting blinds is such a cheap and easy way to update your existing window coverings.
Then we tried to do a few laying down.
I used two trestles and some leftover wood.