Ways to Change the Colors of your Fabric Vertical Blinds
Fabric vertical blinds have been used in our offices and homes for as long as we could remember. Although the vanes of the vertical blinds could be made from other materials such as plastic, PVC, wood but fabric seems to be the most popular as you have lotsa of options to choose from in terms of the color and texture. In addition, fabric vertical blinds are also flexible where you can change the colors of the vanes whenever necessary. There are a few ways that you could change the colors of the vanes and I would to share the top 4 ways to do it below:
Top of the list is to replace the fabric of your vertical blinds. Fabric inserts can be removed from the "groover inserts" and replaced. I have seen quite a few sites online where you can order replacements in hundreds of colors. Search groover inserts vertical blinds.
You can also spray painted the vertical blinds. A friend of mine did this on his vertical blinds and he was very pleased with the paint itself. However, the vertical blinds took on a little puckered look in spots. Not real bad but enough to notice. You just have to iron the vertical blinds on the back side and it helped some. This process actually works but they aren't quite as straight as before. It also could be because he washed the vertical blinds before he painted them.
You could use a rotary cutter and ruler (used by quilters) to cut the fabric for your vertical blinds. I have purchased this kind of vertical blinds before but without the fabric and cut wallpaper strips to fit the vanes. I was able to change the color at least 3 times over the years before my vertical blinds' vanes started to give way.
Another cost saving way is to paint the vertical blinds' slats with wall paint and you can find fabric that adhere to them. They have done this on a decorating show before. After painting the vertical blinds' vanes, take the vertical blinds out, lay them flat and paint them. You could use the leftover wall paint-maybe every other one in the 2 colors?
However a word of caution before you try any of the methods on your vertical blinds, please test the methods out first on your old or unwanted vertical blinds before proceeding with the real thing!
Top of the list is to replace the fabric of your vertical blinds. Fabric inserts can be removed from the "groover inserts" and replaced. I have seen quite a few sites online where you can order replacements in hundreds of colors. Search groover inserts vertical blinds.
You can also spray painted the vertical blinds. A friend of mine did this on his vertical blinds and he was very pleased with the paint itself. However, the vertical blinds took on a little puckered look in spots. Not real bad but enough to notice. You just have to iron the vertical blinds on the back side and it helped some. This process actually works but they aren't quite as straight as before. It also could be because he washed the vertical blinds before he painted them.
You could use a rotary cutter and ruler (used by quilters) to cut the fabric for your vertical blinds. I have purchased this kind of vertical blinds before but without the fabric and cut wallpaper strips to fit the vanes. I was able to change the color at least 3 times over the years before my vertical blinds' vanes started to give way.
Another cost saving way is to paint the vertical blinds' slats with wall paint and you can find fabric that adhere to them. They have done this on a decorating show before. After painting the vertical blinds' vanes, take the vertical blinds out, lay them flat and paint them. You could use the leftover wall paint-maybe every other one in the 2 colors?
However a word of caution before you try any of the methods on your vertical blinds, please test the methods out first on your old or unwanted vertical blinds before proceeding with the real thing!
posted by Blinds2u at 11:20 PM
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