Change The Look Of Your Appliances And Save $$$
June 10th, 2009 categories: Buyer Resource, Green, Seller Resource
Recently, I had some clients/friends play a little joke on me. They recently bought a house here in Rohnert Park and had redone the kitchens and bathrooms. In the ”reduce reuse recycle” spirit, they told me they were going to keep the old appliances and paint them a silver color (with appliance paint) to save some money and help the environment. At first, I was skeptical if anything, as I had never really heard of such a thing. I actually thought it sounded pretty cheesy.
Our friends invited us over for a small housewarming and dinner, and here is where the joke came in. When they were showing me the kitchen, they told me they went ahead and purchased all new stainless steel appliances. I told them I thought that was a smart idea with prices coming down, Energy Star appliances readily available since they wanted to stay environmental, and they could buy exactly what they wanted.
The appliances really did look great. As we were about to leave the room, they told me to take a closer look at the appliances….I was still missing it. Finally, they showed me close up a small mistake in their painting, and told me they had used the appliance paint…it looked so good I was fooled for 10 minutes or so. I went from skeptic to believer in about 10 seconds.
I thought that other people may want to try this at home project themselves, and have embedded a video that can show the seemingly easy process. I have not personally tried it, but I was told it was easy. I can attest the outcome was actually impressive. This video is pretty “commercially” (Is that a word?) but I thought it served a good purpose.
I found more information on the Internet, however the video above is the most thorough. There were spray epoxy options available, different colors, and all seemed to have a relatively easy process.
Please let us know if anyone else has some experience with this type of project.
