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[1mamaj]

Have any of you ever done this and if so, can you offer any tips or suggestions? We are putting our old one in a cabin and would like to paint it to look a little more rustic. I am going to google that topic, but thought I would try here also. TIA!

[terrier3]

You can get them painted at an auto body shop...any color you like and not very expensive either.

[AspenQn]

When we moved back to Denver, I had our almond refrigerator repainted black to go with the stainless and black appliances in the new house. A company came out and set up an electrostatic paint booth in our garage, painted the refrigerator and think it had to set up for 24 hours before being moved into the house. It came out perfect, but the trick is to use the right kind of paint.

[1mamaj]

thank you so much! I will research our local body shops and see if I have any luck.

[springers]

I found a guy who painted ours, he came to the house. Before internet days, I just looked in yellow pages. You would never know it was painted, very durable, the paint lasted longer than fridge.

[lork]

Years ago my best friend's folks had a pretty PINK frig in their kitchen. . .Another friend had an ""older"" frig painted RED. . .I loved them both!

[Allegheny]

My mother had her refrigerator painted similar to the method StElmoQn mentioned above. They did a beautiful job, this was 30 years ago. She went from avocado green to gold (which was an in style color at the time and matched her range). They even shaded it.

Me, I wanted a light grey refrigerator instead of while; took it to an auto body shop. Several years later I painted my refrigerator myself. I went from almond to light grey. I removed the hardware, cleaned it well, masked it off and used a roller. The paint I used was made for metal and I had it tinted. It came out really nice and I did it in one day. Just moved it into the middle of the floor, didn't even empty it. Never had problem with the finish chipping or peeling. Note, my frig wasn't new; don't know if I would have tackled the task on a new one.

[Azcowgirl]

Well I'll be !!! this a new one on me, and I love the idea !!! Thank you !!

[ennui1]

On 4/22/2014 terrier3 said:

You can get them painted at an auto body shop...any color you like and not very expensive either.

Define "expensive." My body shop is $85/hr, paint is $40/hour. It ain't that cheap.

[cuddlesmama]

My husband and I painted our refrigerator ourselves. We bought paint especially formulated for appliances we bought the spray paint at Lowes. It was almond color and we painted it black and it came out beautiful. The reason we painted it because it was showing signs of rust and the refrigerator was working fine.I would do it again if I wanted to change colors on any appliance. We brought the frig. outside and did it.