Posts tagged: refrigerator
How to turn your fridge into a chalkboard.
By DIY Maven
Chichi decided to turn her refrigerator into a giant chalkboard. On it she records garden harvests and meal plans while her boyfriend adds 'whimsical' food-related drawings. She assures us that this is a weekend project. To turn our fridges into chalkboards, we'll need....
Peacock Trends, Ideal Fridge Temps & Going Green by Redesigning
By TheHomeToday's weekly roundup from TheHome.com features bold new trends and practical advice. What's the best temp to keep the fridge at? Did you know you actually need to "wash" the washing machine?
Hot Trend: Peacock Feathers
August 28, 2008
For high glamour with an element of natural beauty, peacock designs are
impeccable. A wave of peacock motifs has washed through the home
accessories market recently in both ...
The Dry-Erase Refrigerator
By DIY Maven
Amana's new Jot refrigerator, which has a dry-erase door, is being marketed as the perfect spot to jot a note, but how fun to use--and reuse--your refrigerator door as a 'canvas'? At $649 MSRP, it's probably one of the more inexpensive refrigerators on the market. For more information, visit Amana.
7 Ways to Triple Your Refrigerator's Lifespan.
By Chrisjob
- Cleaning the dust from your refrigerator's compressor coil once or twice a year will help it last twice, if not three times as long.
- Use a special coil brush, around $5 from the hardware store
- Lacking this, use a broom or compressed air.
- First remove the grill, then clean the coil.
- Then, clean the grime and dust on the fan blades, then replace the coil.
- Replace your gasket: if a dollar bill slides freely between the rubber gasket strip and the doo » READ MORE
How to Give Your Fridge a Facelift with Faux Leather
By DIY Maven
Giving your fridge a facelift with faux leather is easy, according to Heidi Karpa. Materials are minimal and include 4 yards of faux leather, decorative handles (Heidi used towel bars), and decorative magnet clips. The tool list, although longer, includes things most of us already have. They include:
- tape measure
- paper and pencil
- scissors
- ruler or straight edge
- no-sew tape
- iron
- drill and drill bits
- screws for towel bars
- spray adhesive
- goggles
- face mask
- glov » READ MORE
Refrigerator Shopping?
By MichaelI have to admit, I hate shopping. Especially shopping for appliances. But, my wife makes me and the fact that everything in our kitchen is "vintage" and broken, it came time to shop.
So, I dreaded the idea of having to walk into the Circuit City, Best Buy or similar appliance store totally devoid of valuable information. Luckily, I discovered a great site that helped me with my refrigerator purchase - REFRIGERATORPRO.COM.
REFRIGERATORPRO.CO » READ MORE
How to Make Crafty Fridge Magnets.
By Chrisjob "Food comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and packages. Your kitchen cabinets, pantry drawers, and refrigerator shelves are already filled with marvelous little boxes and baggies of goodies. Some of these are cultural icons, others are silly modern wonders of neo-retro design.You may even have your own little collection of interesting little containers in the form of left-over little boxes of candy from Halloween. What can you do with all th » READ MORE
How to Make Magnet Photo Corners
By DIY Maven
I’ve proclaimed my refrigerator door a ‘pictures only’ area. I wanted a quick, easy and cheap way to make a collage of them. Here's what I came up with.
What you need.
Photo corners (I bought 250 corners for 4 bucks, which I had on hand from another project.)
A sheet of magnet (this is also a great way to recycle those magnetic calendars and business cards you get in the mail.
A scissors
What you do.
It probably goes without saying, but you » READ MORE
Condiment Calendars
By DIY Maven
It’s no secret I’m a big fan of Think Geek. I would buy just about anything those sexy techno-freaks have to sell. Except this. The DaysAgo Refrigerator Timer is a button-sized timer that counts down days. The idea is you stick these babies onto your mayonnaise jar, salsa, whatever and let the little LCD screen mark off the days since you opened the container. Now, I’m not saying keeping tabs on the age of your condiments isn’t a good idea. I » READ MORE
Not just on the frige: magnetic primer makes magnets stick anywhere
By alexrussell
The refrigerator is no longer the only place for your magnetic collage skills to find full expression. Kling Magnetics makes a magnetic wall primer that you can paint over in with any final color. It's simple: one coat of magnetic primer, a coat of the paint of your choice, and then you can finally expand your magnet collection to any size your walls will hold!
Fridge Fixation
By DIY MavenOkay, admit it. Your refrigerator door looks like a pop art project gone bad. Pictures, postcards, receipts, lotto tickets (both last Wednesday’s loser and next Saturday’s winner), a grocery list, and a friendly reminder from your dentist that it’s time for a checkup. Too important to cast aside in the dark recesses of some drawer only to be forgotten, but not quite important enough for a cubbyhole of its own, junk accumulates for all to see. » READ MORE
