Painting a Freezer?

[dj_carlson]

Howdy All!

I'd like to take my boring white chest freezer and make it look nice a snazzy. I've seen some appliance paint out there, but they are the typical white almond and black. Any suggestions for "how to" paint a freezer with something other then the standard colors? My freezer is newer with the typical white glossy textured paint.


Mahalo

BC

[Jaeger48]

Does it have to be paint or are you open to something else?

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

It probably wouldn't be appropriate here, but I have always wanted to paint our upright freezer with chalkboard paint. Dunno why. But I keep getting overruled.

[dj_carlson]

Does it have to be paint or are you open to something else?

What did you have in mind?

[yellowcolumbia]

I used the rattle can appliance paint directly on my chest freezer. It scratched and flaked off way too easily, so within a year I stripped all of that off. Sanded the original finish a little to roughen it up, gave it a coat of rustoleum primer, then a coat of rustoleum paint, both oil based. Much more durable. I used black, but I know that there were base paints available that could be tinted to whatever color desired.
Hmm, I wonder what the wife would think about a giant hop grenade painted on the front...

I've seen a couple that were covered with chalkboard paint, and they came out nicely.

[dj_carlson]

Perfect, that's what I needed to know. I'm looking to paint it with something exotic. Sounds like I'll need to sand it down a bit, then add primer, then a few coats of whatever color tickles my fancy.

Anyone else that has been successful at this?

[poohbaah85]

I sanded and then used chalkboard paint on one fridge and that came out great. Very fun to draw on at parties. That fridge has died and my new one is still white. I am thinking about taking SS and swirling it with a grinder and then fitting that on my fridge and then frame out an area above my taps and paint with chalkboard paint so I am able to identify my brews on tap.

[Kbar]

Krylon and some other manufacturers have release plastic approved paint series. Seems to have become fairly popular for these manufacturers in the last 1-2 years. Krylon appears to have about 30 available colors. They tout scratch resistance and no surface prep.