Fridge Project: Done!

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First of all: Hi! First real post! The older posts are all recent/relevant ones transferred from the old blog. :)

See the first post about our 1955 GE fridge here!

Considering how big of a deal this was, we ran into surprisingly few hiccups with the fridge project! While cleaning it I broke one of the shelf supports, so that had to be fixed, and the glass shelf was already broken when we got it, so Jeremy picked up a piece of plexiglass from Lowes. It had lots of cracks and holes in the liner along the bottom and side, so I had to patch them with fiberglass cloth and G-Flex and then spray paint over it with white Krylon Fusion. It was missing one of the bins, but I managed to find a set of two on Ebay that were an exact match to the one that came with it. Luck!

Everything went smoothly until it was time to paint– Jeremy sanded it really well and then gave it several coats of Rust-Oleum’s Appliance Epoxy spray paint, which really didn’t work out. It was supposed to give a glossy/normal appliance finish but instead turned out matte with random shiny spots. So we wheeled it back in, returned the rented appliance dolly, and waited until AFTER Jeremy’s birthday to try again, because I bought him a paint sprayer! Haha. I ordered a quart of Rust-Oleum’s Appliance Epoxy (which apparently can only be bought here, go figure) and he tried again. Awesome results! It’s appropriately shiny and even, and the whole thing was done SO quickly. A to you, Wagner 518080 Paint Sprayer Max. And also Jeremy.

Oh and the insulation on the back needed to be replaced, but that was a quick fix. The electrical was all in really good shape, so no worries there. We just had to buy a single plug appliance surge protector for the outlet.

Now we can’t stop looking at it because it’s so lovely. And it fits everything! The main concerns with vintage fridges seem to be the size and the energy efficiency, but honestly we haven’t had problems with either. We had this one and our normal fridge plugged in at the same time for two or three months just to make sure that it ran okay, and there was no noticeable difference in the energy bill. As for the size– I actually really, really like not having that extra chasm of space for old things to get lost and forgotten. I realized the only time we ran out of space in our old fridge was when we had waaaaaaay too many leftovers piling up in there. This way is much less wasteful because everything is so easily accessible! The freezer is tiny, but fits everything we usually have– for freezer cooking and random extra stuff we plan to get a small deep freezer for the laundry room.

So basically: yay. Here are progress pics:

Couter-clockwise: cracks in the liner, filling the cracks with fiberglass cloth, old insulation. I swear I have a few pictures floating around of when I patched the holes and cracks with G-Flex, but I can’t find them. Anyway! It goes on yellow and needs to be sanded and painted over. The final result is bumpy, but it blends in.

As you can see, the overspray went bonkers on our deck. Thankfully we’re redoing it soon!