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Smart Ways To Decorate Your Fridge Door

By Padmapreetham Mahalingam

Does your fridge door look plain and boring? Are you stuck with an ugly, plain fridge? Your fridge can be used more than just a cold storage and for preservation of food and cold drinks.

This kitchen equipment can be used as a piece of canvas for a stunning artistic display too. Sometimes, your colourless refrigerator can look drab even with its state of the art interiors, so try to make it cool and interesting with our cool fridge door decor ideas.

Smart Ways To Decorate Your Fridge Door

A fridge door is a perfect place to decorate with exciting images or cute notes. Nowadays, a colourful fridge has become a part of the modern modular kitchen design. It is definitely not hard to decorate your fridge door with modern attractive stickers or with colourful paint. If you’re tired of your old fridge and can’t afford to buy a stylish one, try to change the look of your fridge to bring freshness into your kitchen interiors.

You can also decorate your fridge door with family photos or greeting cards. There are tons of fridge door decor ideas to make your appliance look stylish and smart. You can decorate the fridge door according to your personal taste. With a little bit of effort, you can make your fridge look like a stunning masterpiece with our simple fridge door decor ideas.

Here are some of the fridge decor ideas to spruce up your boring appliance.

Remove old stickers and reminders
Your fridge is the hardest working appliance in your home. Make sure that you have a clean fridge if you don’t want to ruin your kitchen’s interiors. We often dirty our fridge by making it a place to store pictures, notes and other general reminders. When you have decided to decorate the fridge door, make sure to get rid of those things that are stuck on it.

Clean your fridge
Before you start to decorate your fridge door, clean your appliance with baking soda or soap. A clean and shining fridge can make things easier for you to decorate. Make sure to remove grease, dirt and sticker remains from the fridge door.

Simple decorations
There are tons of interesting fridge door decor ideas to decorate your refrigerator’s surface. Try to make interesting letters using cardboard. Wrap cardboard letters with two layers of wool. It can be held in place with glue.

Peel and Stick Makeover
We usually buy carpets when we want to cover our ugly floors. When we decide to make changes in our interiors, we try to modify the light fixtures and also get rid of our old furniture and replace them with new ones. Yet some of us never focus on our kitchen’s interiors. And most of us never take options to smarten up an eyesore fridge. Think out of the box. Cover your refrigerator in wallpaper. Try to cover your old appliance with removable peel-and-stick wallpaper. Decorate you fridge door with bright patterned wallpaper.

Make an inspiring collage
Picture collage can be a fun way to decorate your ugly appliance. You don’t have to stick one picture, make a picture collage with a bunch of your favourites. Photographs always look good when it comes to decorating your fridge. Photographs or your children’s artwork make an incredible visual impact and it can enhance your personal flair. If you are going for a collage, plan an interesting theme. You can even showcase postcards from around the world on it. Try to create the images in different angles, shapes and sizes and then stick a magnet at the back with superglue to hold them all.

Hire an artist
To decorate your fridge, hire a local artist to hand paint a mural on the appliance’s surface. If you are an artistic person, then you can attempt it yourself. You can choose a theme that appeals to you personally like natural scenery or a beautiful large flower. Alternatively, you can spray paint on your appliance to create a bold statement.

Dough fridge magnets
The other attractive option to decorate the fridge is to ask your children to make dough fridge magnets. Roll out dough by using cooking cutters to create interesting shapes or you can ask them to come up with their own creations. Let it dry for some time and then make the children to paint their works of art with glitter pens to adorn the shapes. Try to glue a magnet at the back of each piece and then stick it on your fridge.

Story first published: Friday, July 18, 2014, 18:12 [IST]
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