A painted finish will not stick to your wood blinds unless they are pretreated with a primer base coat.
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.
Hold the spray can about 12 inches above the stencil and spray paint bamboo lightly making sure you cover the entire design.
Attach blinds to window brackets.
Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.
It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way.
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.
However it will not stick to stained blinds.
Gently lift off the stencil and allow the paint to dry.
The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.
No primer is required for some plastic spray paints.
Use what you have on hand.
Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly.
A latex spray primer is sufficient for bare wood blinds.
Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings.
Otherwise feel free to use a plastic primer along with a standard spray paint.
You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.
I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.
Step 4 add full color if you want to paint bamboo with a single color on the whole bamboo blind remove the weights you put on the blinds earlier.
Shake the spray can for a minute or two.
The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours.
In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one.
Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom.
Choose a particular type of primer depending on the condition of the blinds.
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.