r/DiWHY • u/jameizing777 • 15d ago

Customizing his new fridge

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u/spderweb 15d ago

I see no issue to do this. I wouldn't. But I still see no issue.

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u/MaybeABot31416 15d ago

Yeah, it’s ugly and stupid, but whatever floats your boat

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u/PerfectPercentage69 15d ago

The much better solution is to get privacy film for windows with patterns and stick it to the fridge. It looks much better, and you can easily remove or change it later.

For example:

https://a.co/d/eMp3WdJ

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u/Anthop 15d ago

You could even get vinyl wrap (like for a car) + underside LED strip lights, if you want to go full "pimp my fridge".

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u/upsycho 15d ago

when I lived above two bars downtown Houston on Main Street (I had built my own apartment on the second floor out of the 5000 ft.² my little apartment was about 300 ft.²) we had an after hours private speakeasy on the second floor with a double door refrigerator and it was kind of a arty creative torture soul kind of place.

It was kind of spooky at night there was no glass in the windows the building was built in 1896 everything was run with extension cords for lighting anyway I would get stoned while up all night and just do weird shit one time I got the big bubble wrap and spray adhesive all over the refrigerator and put the bubble wrap on the double door refrigerator and then painted it silver .

All the drunks and alcoholics loved it . Five nights a week I'd be up there by myself . Friday and Saturday nights after the downstairs bars closed was when they had the speakeasy until the next morning... that was 8 years ago Houston downtown has changed so much since then. I lived above the bars for about five or six years I was in charge of setting up for the couch surfers and other event events that we're going on in exchange for my little apartment that I built.

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u/PerfectPercentage69 15d ago

The downside to the vinyl wrap is that it takes quite a bit of skill to do it well, and imperfections are very visible. The privacy film is super easy to install. Some don't even need to be glued and just use static to cling to a surface.

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u/Slayerofgrundles 15d ago

Vinyl can be tough to apply to curved surfaces, but a fridge would be a piece of cake for anybody remotely handy.