Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds.
Spray paint fabric vertical blinds.
At this point i decided to let the blinds dry overnight as they basically had 4 layers of paint primer on them.
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.
Once it is dry flip the blinds over and apply a coat of paint to the front of the blinds.
You will need 2 or 3 coats because fabric absorbs the paint very quickly and it will dry lighter than the color you paint.
Mar 15 2015 vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.
How to paint blinds.
Having a spray paint can in my hand always makes me feel decoratively powerful.
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.
Whether vinyl or fabric vertical blinds can be transformed with a coat of paint.
You know how we can be in a hurry sometimes well too often.
You may even need more water.
But for my window blinds i really needed to take them even further than where spray paint alone could take them.
Some vertical blinds have a fabric insert while others are just fabric on one side and vinyl on the other.
Specialty paints designed to adhere to the specific type of surface such as fabric paints for fabric or spray.
Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds.
I really wanted to punch up the fearless fun and funky factor.
So i decided to try and spray paint it.
Remove the fabric insert from fabric blinds.
I needed to get this done fast and there was no way i would take down my blinds piece by piece to paint it.
When it comes to transforming anything lickety split spray paint is always my go to.
So maybe add about 1 part water to 4 parts paint.
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Vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.
You will also use more paint for a fabric project compared to doing a wood dresser.
If yours have the insert pull it out before you start painting.
Think about it the fabric project will be absorbing paint where the wood dresser would not.
You may need to slip a credit card between the slat and the fabric to get it going.