A Beauty Aid For Your KitchenAid

Are you lonesome tonight, is your kitchen a sight?

Or if not your kitchen, your KitchenAid?

Well, step right up ladies and gents...

see the AMAZING, OUT OF THIS WORLD

the KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF

Mixer Makeover Kit.

Yours today for the low low low low price of...

just kidding. :)

SPRAY PAINT TO THE RESCUE!

As much as I would LOOOOOVE a new mixer...

mine still works great and I can't bring myself to

shell out the moolah for a new one.

Some time ago I had stuck some vinyl on it

to help with it's appearance...it didn't do much.

And it was a PAIN to get it off!

But, once that was taken care of, I took of the parts that would detach.

The bowl holder, the back cover and the silver band.

Clean the heck out of it.

This stuff works great!

I hadn't realized just how dirty this baby was.

I would wipe it down but there was gunk in all the crevices.

I must have spilled vanilla on it once or twice...it was all sticky behind the band.

Blech.

And then...I think it was cleaner than when I got it!

{I swear this pic didn't look blurry in the camera!}

Then take the sticker off the back.  I used a widget thingy.

But I still couldn't get it all.

See here? The words are still there in some magical "forever" glue.

I had to break out the big guns to get that goo off!

Then I just wiped that area off again with the Krud Kutter.

I lightly sanded all over where I would paint.

Just use a sponge sander.

Use some painter's tape to cover up all the parts that should NOT be painted.

I used a zipper baggie over the motor and tape to secure it.

Make sure you get that little accessory hole on the front!

Yippee!  Here we go!

One coat of primer...then...

She was so pretty after that first coat of black...I almost left it like this.

But, alas, I didn't.

Should have.

Major curses and grumbles ensued.

After the black...I used some vinyl circles I mentioned here.

Smoothed them out all over...

and STILL didn't get them perfect!

Ugh.

The red leaked under some of them...

and the spray paint made the vinyl super soft.

It was a nightmare to take off.

So I had to do some touch up.

Even with the grumbles...I am glad I went ahead with the dots.

A solid color would be pretty...

but it wouldn't have the same character.

I am SOOOO in love with this mixer.

We've spent some quality time together recently

and it might just be "the one."

:)


If you had your choice of colors...
brand new or DIY...
what would your mixer look like?

©Kelly

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