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Can faux wood blinds be spray painted.
Hope it works out for you.
The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers.
In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one.
On mar 28 2019.
You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds.
Spray painting blinds february 2020 i was excited to see that the girls over at shanty2chic were hosting a rust oleum linky party because as you know spray paint is one of.
He could have used my bff the paintbrush it just would have taken a bit longer the thing about this project is the time paint let dry completely turn the slats over paint let dry completely repeat on the next window.
If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth.
Spray paint made for plastic but doubt they will work well once done.
And the much improved with a can of spray paint after.
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.
These were faux wood blinds probably made out of some sorty of vinyl or plastic.
Test out your ideas on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard.
Decide on a pattern or texture before you begin painting.
What would i use.
I used two trestles and some leftover wood.
But they had a fake wood grain in them which you can still see so these really do look like espresso stained wood blinds.
Use what you have on hand.
If i sprayed blinds again i would use rit dye and dye the strings instead of spray painting.
I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again.
You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds.
And then spray until the brown is gone.
If your faux wood blinds have been painted before you will have to remove the old paint with a non corrosive paint remover before you clean them.
Use light coats of spray paint to cover the entire slat.
The husband has a spray gun so this was really easy load the paint and spray.
The paint will freeze up the strings.