Decorating the refrigerator

The refrigerator is an indispensable thing in every person's everyday life, practically a member of the family, without which none of our days are spent. But, did you know that with a little effort and using imagination, you can make the refrigerator also a real decoration of your kitchen!

With a few tips that we will give you in this article, you can transform the look of your refrigerator, make it unique or decorate an old refrigerator, giving it a new life.

How to decorate a refrigerator?

In this article, we will not talk about banal magnets on the refrigerator, since it has long ceased to surprise anyone and be unique.

The refrigerator is a kind of canvas for your ideas. You can decorate its surface with a pattern, decorate it with decoupage techniques or simply repaint it from dull white to a red or green color that matches your interior with paint cans.

1. If you are wondering how to decorate an old refrigerator with your own hands, which has external damages, or if it simply has a worn appearance, then we advise you to decorate it with the technique of decoupage. To do this, you only need a dense four-layer napkins with a beautiful pattern, PVA glue and acrylic lacquer. Gently cut out the napkins pictures or patterns, separate, without breaking through the pattern, paper white base napkins. Color the same piece gently glue to the surface of the refrigerator, making sure that there are no wrinkles or irregularities. Top the resulting pattern with two or three layers of acrylic lacquer. You can use not only napkins, but also thin paper with your favorite ornament. With the help of decoupage you can create your own unique design of a refrigerator, suitable for any interior.
2. Another way to decorate an old refrigerator with your own hands is to stick a picture on it with a vinyl film. Vinyl film is a self-adhesive film, on which you can paste the image you like yourself, and then apply it on the adhesive side to the refrigerator. You can also order lashes with drawings from specialists or buy ready-made interior stickers. This is a fairly simple way of decorating the refrigerator, most importantly, make sure that wrinkles or air bubbles do not form on the surface of the vinyl film.
3. You can also decorate your refrigerator with magnetic boards. Magnetic boards on the refrigerator - it's not only a great way of decorating it, suitable absolutely to any kitchen, but also the opportunity to communicate and raise the mood to yourself and your loved ones since the morning. Magnetic board is relatively inexpensive - an average of $ 20- $ 40, but it can also be done with your own hands. To do this, you need a sheet of MDF and a special magnetic paint, which can be of different colors. The "recipe" is simple - from the MDF sheet, cut the base for the magnetic board of the required size, treat the edges, apply several layers of magnetic paint on it and allow it to dry completely. On such boards you can draw, as well as write reminders and messages to your relatives, charging them with positive from morning until evening.
4. The last and most expensive way of decorating the refrigerator is airbrushing. It's beautiful, stylish, unique and only an artist can do it. Here the number of possibilities is really unlimited - you can put on the surface of the refrigerator portrait of any picture - from the frescoes of Leonardo da Vinci to the popular in recent years, the Union Jack (English flag) or the bestial print.

As you can see, there are a huge number of ways to decorate refrigerators, we have told you only about some of them. Be creative, experiment and create your own style and design of the refrigerator and the entire kitchen.