I have seen lots of questions about painting blackout screen. Havent seen too many answers.

So, I tried it myself.

Screen is a 92" x 52" Roc-Lon Blackout screen on homemade 1 x 2 frame.

Painted with Behr Silverscreen ( minus the red pigment ).

Had assembled the screen and then painted using foam roller.

Definitely didnt work out so well. Very blotchy application of paint. Thick in some spots, thinner in others.
Very hard to get the paint from roller onto pliable screen.
First coat used the paint as it came.
Second coat I thinned the paint down with water, this helped a bit, but not enough.

Projector arrives on Thurs so will set up and test it out.


If things look promising, going to get 3 more yards of blackout cloth and redo, next time will paint with a compressor and spray gun. or may paint the material before applying to frame.





This is projector right out of the box, fairly high amount of ambient light, no color tuning.

Hello cmeyer001,and Welcome to Lumenlab!

Spraying is the way to go if your using the silverscreen.Unless you are a master of the "backroll" technique,it will leave horribly visible rollermarks.

If you paint the BOC before you mount it on your frame,you may get some cracking or peeling aroung the edges of your screen.

Can't wait 'til your PJ arrives.If you have a camera post some screenies.We love screenies.