How To Paint Window Frames Metal

A few months ago we sat downward with a company in our home to get a quote for a few windows to be replaced. Nosotros wanted to supercede a few at a fourth dimension starting with the windows in the front end. Oh, and did I mention nosotros wanted black windows? When the quote came back at $28,000 (yes, yous read that correctly) we were shocked. It was a higher priced company but it got me thinking: why tin can't I paint our windows black until we've saved for the right moment to supervene upon all our windows.

We pushed that thought out of our minds the post-obit months because we didn't recollect in that location could be a paint suitable for this type of project. Nosotros would demand something that would last and a pigment that tin can also exist used on the exterior side of our windows. With u.s.a. painting our dwelling house in the near hereafter, nosotros likewise demand the windows to be black on the exterior.

I started noticing on Instagram some of my all-time gals spray painting their window frames. OH, how I craved that wait of black windows for our home. For interior windows, it's perfect! But once again I needed something to practise both if I'm going to spend the time tackling this projection. That'due south when I finally discovered Pro-Industrial Multi-Surface Acrylic by Sherwin Williams. It's a contractors grade pigment that's fabricated to adhere to the slickest of surfaces while maintaining durability.

**Find the video at the end of how we painted the windows as well.

So gauge what I did? I PAINTED MY WINDOWS Black AND I LOVE THEM! That totally deserved all capital letters considering look at this before and afterward. I'thou still in shock at the difference paint made tour windows.

So, you lot've already made it this far and you're probably wanting to paint your windows as well. At that place are several ways to do this: spray painting, with a paintbrush or with a pigment sprayer. Today I'll be showing you how to paint your window frames using a paint sprayer. I went this route because I love the finished and flawless wait a paint sprayer gives. And to answer a question I'1000 sure you lot have right now: yes our windows still open without any problems or paint peeling!

Here's What You'll Need

Frog Tape (green)
Painters plastic sheeting with tape attached
Regular plastic sheeting to comprehend nearby article of furniture
to cover the floor – you can too utilize onetime towels
Paint sprayer (we used the HomeRight Super End Max)
Pro Industrial Multi-Surface Acrylic by Sherwin-Williams (we picked Blackness Magic by SW for our blackness)
Pigment mask

Optional:

Electrical tape to create or hide current grids (budget friendly option)
Pvc strips for a realistic wait to create or hide current grids.

How to Paint Window Frames Blackness

The longest and probably the most annoying part about this projection is all the prep work. In that location is a lot and you must take your time. But I promise yous it'southward 100% worth it! That moment you skin back all the plastic and painter's record is so satisfying seeing your brand new windows!

Prep Piece of work

Using the green frog tape, you'll tape correct along the edge of the interior window frame. In other words, y'all'll be applying your frog tape on the drinking glass equally shut to the frames as you can get information technology. If you take a acme and lesser section to your window like mine, y'all'll exercise this to both.

Y'all'll then apply the frog tape to outer side of the window frame. This is going to give yous that well-baked, clean line without getting paint on the glass or the drywall afterwards applying the paint. This step is crucial and so important to take your fourth dimension!

Now that you have the green frog tape applied, you'll demand to further protect the glass and the outer edges/walls around the window. Since you advisedly and precisely practical the frog tape first, you can be a trivial more intendance gratuitous with the plastic sheeting with painters record attached. I attach the roll of plastic at the meridian of the glass pane making certain the bluish tape is overlapping the light-green tape.

Once I take it pressed securely downwardly, I cutting the width downward to size and unroll the plastic sheeting. You'll notice how information technology magically clings to the window which makes this product very easy to work with. Secure the other three sides past taping them downwards with the Frog Tape.

Tip: As you're applying the plastic, don't cover the dark-green tape on the other iii sides entirely. Become about halfway onto the tape that's applied on the window. You want to cut the plastic to where information technology leaves a minor space so that when y'all tape the other 3 sides downwards the tape has something to stick to. Too much plastic and you're record won't have anywhere to go.

Merely similar you taped off the outer edge of the window frames, you'll apply the painter plastic forth this green record as well. This was yous tin can stretch the plastic out over the walls to protect from overspray. You may demand to employ additional plastic in ares that are covered. This will also be a great time to mantle additional plastic, sometime towels, etc. over surround furniture you lot don't want paint dust getting on.

Time to Paint

The moment you've been waiting for: TIME TO Pigment! Here are a couple things to note near this Multi-Surface Acrylic Pro-Industrial paint:

For interior and exterior employ.
Engineered to provide high-hide (in i coat) and stain resistant
Provides alkyd-like hardness
Dries fast with dry out fall properties. Which means every bit yous apply it with your paint sprayer, the paint dries rapidly has it falls. Because of this, information technology can be swept up.
Self-priming to multiple surfaces
Excellent adhesion to slick and sleeky surfaces (hello aluminum and vinyl window frames)
Can be applied by paintbrush, roller or paint sprayer
Can be color matched in a variety of colors. We went with Blackness Magic.

Of grade, depending on the paint sprayer y'all'll be using, your paint prep might look a picayune different. Since I'm suing the HomeRight Super End Max, I just take to attach the right tip, cascade in my pigment and start spraying. Thinning isn't required.

Important: I highly recommend wearing a paint mask when using this paint. Since it is mainly acrylic based, the chemicals used in this pigment are very strong. Especially since yous can't really open windows during this projection since you're painting them.

Before you outset, test your paint flow on a scrap piece of newspaper, wood, etc. You lot want to make sure you take a smooth finish. And then run your hands over all of the tape y'all applied on the windows. The tape likes to popular loose sometimes. And so start applying your paint in slow, even strokes. I found information technology best to utilize the pigment on all the vertical pieces outset and so switch the nozzle for the horizontal pieces. Make certain you get into all the grooves and look at the window frame from all angles to make sure you painted every square inch.

Of course, depending on the paint sprayer you're using, determines the amount of overspray. For the HomeRight Super Finish Max ,the overspray isn't bad at all! You lot will notice paint grit that tin can easily be wiped, swept, vacuumed, etc. You tin can see it in the image below on the plastic sheeting. But remember, ane of the bang-up things virtually this paint is that dries fast as it falls and then that information technology lands as paint grit.

This paint simply takes one coat but you lot still demand to go dorsum and look for spots where you didn't apply enough. Apply the low-cal on your telephone or grab a flashlight to motility across every inch of the windows. Lightly and quickly spray the spots that need a little more paint. It's easier to check for that now than to notice it later.

Once your windows are fully covered with the paint, you'll want to become ahead and remove all of the plastic and painter'due south record. The terminal thing you want is the paint to stick to the tape and ripping off the window as you remove everything.

Applying with a Paint Brush

I wanted to endeavour painting one of my windows with a paintbrush just to see how information technology went on, dried, etc. Is information technology an option? 100%. Is it my preferred method? Nope. Later on painting one window, it took iii coats of paint to get a solid wait and the finish wasn't as nifty as a paint sprayer. There weren't any strokes but for me yous can't beat that finish that a paint sprayer gives.

DIY Window Panes

One of the questions I got on repeat over on Instagram stories is how I was going to cover the white window panes. In a dream world, they would be on the outside of the glass panes where I could but paint them. So, if y'all're one of the lucky ones with them on the exterior of the glass, you'll but tape effectually them while taping off the residual of the window frame and paint them all together. BUT! If you're like me with them between the two drinking glass panes, you take to be a fiddling more artistic to make them announced black.

Electric Record

If you lot're wanting to stay within a budget, electrical tape is pretty magical with this. You'll just apply the black electrical tape over the white panes existence careful to proceed it in a straight line and to not stretch it out too much.

I institute it easier to extend the electrical tape past the windows so that I could go a cleaner cutting. Don't be afraid to readjust! This seriously merely takes a few minutes and is a great way to add "window panes" if you currently don't have any only love the await of them.

PVC Strips

Some other alternative is using pvc strips and cross pieces for more than of a realistic look. I found these from New Panes where you tin can society in the quantity that you need. It was of import for me to find a product like this and then that the outside side of our windows have realistic panes that can also agree up with the various atmospheric condition elements and the Florida sunday. These pvc strips from New Panes can exist painted so I used the Pro-Industrial paint to match the window frame color. These are measured, cut, and practical to the windows with either double sided tape or with blade clips.

The magical matter about these pvc strips is that they can hibernate the white panes and they can also create panes for people who didn't accept them at all. I'chiliad actually seeing a lot of this! Your basic looking window and then adding window panes to footstep information technology up a notch visually. You tin lookout the video below to see my installation process with these pvc strips. Watch the video beneath to see what yous need for this method and how they work.

How many of you are about to get running and pigment all your windows blackness? I would totally jump in and help if I could. I would love to meet your reaction when you pare back the tape and plastic and see your new blackness windows for the offset time. Brand certain to tag me on your socials if you try this and share! Get gear up to accept your mind diddled. Yous can also lookout the full process of prepping and painting the windows beneath.