If it says to wait 1 hour, wait 1 hour! I got impatient towards the end and have a few imperfect spots to show for it. Also, I kept it in a plastic bag in between uses. Too much paint on there seemed to make it harder to work with. – Speaking of the squeegee, after each pass over the paint, you’ll need to get all the excess paint out of the foam. If you make crooked lines, you will be able to see them when they dry. It comes with the kit:Īfter you roll the paint on, you use the squeegee to make streaks in the paint. – Be very precise with the squeegee tool. – The first coat will be streaky and look really bad. If your drips dry, it is really hard to get those spots to look good. For the first 10 minutes after each coat, turn on your eagle eyes and inspect every nook and cranny, especially along edges, joints, or screws/holes/bumps. It was nerve wracking, but it paid off in the end.Ī couple of tips if you decide to try it: I am so glad I gave Liquid Stainless Steel a chance. But I think the paint would have worked great if I hadn’t been such a dork. Obviously, now we are buying a new stove. It looks JUST like stainless steel! Seriously, the pictures just don’t do it justice. It’s too bad, because the drawer turned out great! Because it was a smooth texture, it is super convincing. I undid the front screws to clean the inside of the glass and when I tried screwing it back together, POOF. I can’t decide if I should paint it black or go stainless all the way. I painted the bottom panel, but I have not finished the top part. The dishwasher is still a work in progress. It’s the right color, it has that metallic sparkliness, and since the Liquid Stainless Steel refrigerator kit only costs $79, it is close enough for me! But it is definitely a pretty good alternative to spending $1000 for a new fridge. The texture shows through on the fridge and real stainless is smooth. Here’s a close up that gives you a better idea:ĭoes it look exactly like a stainless steel fridge? No. The paint is much more sparkly in real life. I put all the little pieces on a strip of duct tape so nothing would roll away and get lost.Īfter three coats of the metallic paint and three top coats, here’s my new fridge: I also undid the handles and anything else that would come off. … and taped off the parts I didn’t want painted. I scrubbed every surface thoroughly, removed the face plate… I followed the instructions that came with the kit. Here are the before pictures of the mismatched set: Paint my appliances? It’s kind of a big deal! What if I screwed them up beyond repair?īut my Liquid Stainless Steel was already in transit, so I put my big girl panties on and decided to go for it.

This is about the point that I started freaking out. They said yes and generously sent me a refrigerator kit and a dishwasher/range kit. I watched their YouTube video about 87 times, then decided to contact them and see if they would send me product to review here on the blog. So I started looking around and found a product called Liquid Stainless Steel.

Stainless steel fridges cost $1000 if you get them on sale? ACK! That was definitely not in the budget.īut we needed to order a microwave and I want stainless steel, but I didn’t want to add a third finish into the mix. I had never really looked at purchasing appliances before so when I saw the price, I was a little shocked.

The home came with a black fridge, a white dishwasher, a black and white oven, and a hole where the built-in microwave should be. All of them worked, but none of them matched.

Home depot stainless steel refrigerator