Spray Paint Fabric Vertical Blinds

Mar 15 2015 vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.

Spray paint fabric vertical blinds.

If yours have the insert pull it out before you start painting. When it comes to transforming anything lickety split spray paint is always my go to. Think about it the fabric project will be absorbing paint where the wood dresser would not. Start painting the blinds by spraying the paint in even coats using an up or down motion and continuing in the same direction all throughout the whole blind surface.

Once it is dry flip the blinds over and apply a coat of paint to the front of the blinds. Specialty paints designed to adhere to the specific type of surface such as fabric paints for fabric or spray. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience and at no extra cost to you. Remove the fabric insert from fabric blinds.

Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds. You will also use more paint for a fabric project compared to doing a wood dresser. Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds. Vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.

You may even need more water. You will need 2 or 3 coats because fabric absorbs the paint very quickly and it will dry lighter than the color you paint. If the fabric is scuffed up and fluffy look for a water based acrylic fabric spray paint and wet the fabric down first to flatten it. I needed to get this done fast and there was no way i would take down my blinds piece by piece to paint it.

Having a spray paint can in my hand always makes me feel decoratively powerful. You know how we can be in a hurry sometimes well too often. At this point i decided to let the blinds dry overnight as they basically had 4 layers of paint primer on them. How to paint blinds.

For extra depth try lightly. You may need to slip a credit card between the slat and the fabric to get it going. I really wanted to punch up the fearless fun and funky factor. Painting fabric accordion blinds with chalk paint.

So maybe add about 1 part water to 4 parts paint. Some vertical blinds have a fabric insert while others are just fabric on one side and vinyl on the other. But for my window blinds i really needed to take them even further than where spray paint alone could take them.