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Spray paint fabric vertical blinds.
Once it is dry flip the blinds over and apply a coat of paint to the front of the blinds.
Whether vinyl or fabric vertical blinds can be transformed with a coat of paint.
I allowed them to dry for an hour on the floor and then rehung them from the valance to let them continue drying for the rest of the night.
Jazz up your room with updated color match a new wall paint or fabric color or just freshen up grubby older blinds.
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.
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.
Mar 15 2015 vertical fabric blinds are surprisingly easy to paint.
I needed to get this done fast and there was no way i would take down my blinds piece by piece to paint it.
You know how we can be in a hurry sometimes well too often.
You will also use more paint for a fabric project compared to doing a wood dresser.
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.
So i decided to try and spray paint it.
If yours have the insert pull it out before you start painting.
Specialty paints designed to adhere to the specific type of surface such as fabric paints for fabric or spray.
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.
How to paint blinds.
Remove the fabric insert from fabric blinds.
At this point i decided to let the blinds dry overnight as they basically had 4 layers of paint primer on them.
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 will need 2 or 3 coats because fabric absorbs the paint very quickly and it will dry lighter than the color you paint.
Having a spray paint can in my hand always makes me feel decoratively powerful.
You may even need more water.
You may need to slip a credit card between the slat and the fabric to get it going.