Can you paint a fabric bed?

Yes, you can paint a fabric bed. Just make sure to use specific fabric paint depending on the type of fabric you intend to have painted. This is because you do not want to end up ruining the fabric on your bed permanently causing you to change the fabric or the bed completely by making you purchase a new bed.

Make sure to purchase some quality fabric paint so that the paint sticks to the fabric properly so that the fabric does not end up looking worse than what it was originally. Because if the fabric did then it would have just been a waste of time and money on your end. Also, if you end up buying poor quality paint then you might just end up forcing yourself to buy more paint than necessary as well, so this is something you want to avoid.

To prepare the fabric for the paint make sure that the fabric has been cleaned thoroughly first and then given some time to dry up properly so that the paint looks clean and will not start to drip while it starts to dry on the fabric. This is to avoid you giving several more coats of paint than the fabric needs.

If you do not want to paint the fabric because the fabric bed is old and it would not last as long, you are better off just buying a new fabric bed that is already in the colour that you want the fabric bed in to save you time. But you should do this if your bed is old and won't last very long to avoid you wasting your money as well.