Painting Vinyl Windows White

The actual window that opens and closes can remain white.

Painting vinyl windows white. Purchase an indoor vinyl safe paint for interior windows or an exterior vinyl safe paint for your outdoor windows. However vinyl siding colors traditionally range from white to sandstone with maybe a wedgewood blue thrown in for variety. We just stained it dark green with deep red stall doors. If the windows you are painting are white or beige but the paint you are using does not already have a primer added to it then prime.

I really don t understand why they wouldn t pick white. The south side houses our sunrooms and the windows look so much more calming enveloped in white. To prime or not to prime when painting vinyl windows if you are changing your window color from dark to light you should prime your windows even if the paint you are planning to use has a primer in it. We have an old barn dark brown stained barn boards with white trim doors and windows.

The north side is really the only place you can see that the white isn t stark white. Within the last 10 years someone replaced all of the windows with really nice tan vinyl windows. Aspire series vinyl clad windows offer homeowners five exterior colors white cameo tan desert tan and heritage brown. After tons of research today i m sharing all my tips for painting vinyl windows black.

The major drawback is that paint does not adhere well to vinyl. With this scale 100 is white. Professionals recommend that white windows should only be painted colors with a hunter l value of 60 or higher. I just want to paint the casing of the windows the deep red.

Even using a dark color on an interior window can cause the window to warp or crack. The problem is the upper barn still has bright white windows. Around 6pm when i took these pictures the color really comes through on that side and there is a definite difference between the house and the fence. Vinyl windows can be painted but that does not mean they should be painted.

In the past if a homeowner wanted to change the color of his or her vinyl siding by painting color choice was limited to the same range as or lighter than the existing color. Generally home contractors will tell you painting vinyl window frames is a viable option while window manufacturers will contradict them. One of my biggest obstacles in this house has been the window color. If you have sandtone or terratone colored vinyl frames you can paint them with any color that has a hunter l value of 40 or higher.

Most vinyl safe paint is formulated to prevent warping with darker colors but how dark you can go over lighter windows is still a concern so not all vinyl safe paint brands make darker color option. The one major concern with vinyl paint is that if a color is too dark it can cause warping of the vinyl windows from the sun.