Painting Vinyl Vertical Blinds

If your vinyl blinds have been around since the last century but you would rather not replace them entirely update them with paint.

Painting vinyl vertical blinds.

This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience and at no extra cost to you. Layer on a lace pattern for a delicate feel. The other type is a plain vinyl slat with the fabric permanently affixed to one side. Painting vinyl vertical blinds.

We painted our perfectly good but outdated vertical blinds with spray paint made for plastic. The only reason that i know it does is because i bought some made to measure blinds at home depot and they offered to let me keep the cut off slats. This is actually done with spray paint but it looks like lace was hand painted on. While you could paint them with a brush spray paint ensures a more uniform look free from brush strokes.

You may need to slip a credit card between the slat and the fabric to get it going. I d recommend this technique to anybody. Make sure the blinds are completely clean before painting them otherwise the paint may not adhere properly. How to paint blinds.

You know how we can be in a hurry sometimes well too often. Acrylic paints do stick to vinyl blinds. One type has a fabric insert that fits into a plastic sleeve with vinyl backing. In most cases you do not want to paint the plain usually white vinyl back of the blind.

These blinds look totally different with a gold a silver vertical stencil. Specialty paints designed to adhere to the specific type of surface such as fabric paints for fabric or. We did this two years ago and the paint is still adhering great. You just need enough space and drop cloths to take down the individual blind slats and spray them then let them dry thoroughly before re hanging.

Last night i tried rubbing on stain and wiping off but this morning it felt tacky. Whether vinyl or fabric vertical blinds can be transformed with a coat of paint. If yours have the insert pull it out before you start painting. Vertical blinds come in two common styles.

So i decided to try and spray paint it. I used them to practice my one stroke painting on would post a picture but don t know how. Revamp your boring vertical blinds with paint. Some vertical blinds have a fabric insert while others are just fabric on one side and vinyl on the other.