How to Get the Retro Appliance Color you want with a WRAP

[bradfordwhite]

Cool article.

 

Awesome way of getting a professional paint job without having a mess or having to spend big $$$.  And it's more durable than paint.

How to Wrap an Oven

how to wrap an oven. Are you sick of your old and ugly stove? Well I have a tutorial for how to do a DIY makeover for a retro look without paint!

athomewithashley.com

 

[bradfordwhite]

Wow the colors

When it comes to retro appliances it's all about design and colors for me.  To be able to 'custom' order the colors is awesome. I love those pastels.  What are your color(s)?

 

Maybe you like the Poppy red that was exclusive to Frigidaire for a few years?

 

I'm not really seeing an option for avocado.

 

The wood-tone brown of that same period was less harsh than the coffee brown or similar colors of the mid 60s into the early 80s.

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Along with the Candy Pink from the 50s/early 60s, I also like the lilac, pastel blue, and mint colors that were on some appliances for a bit but were more likely found on some plumbing fixtures.

 

It's a great way to get a retro look on either a retro OR a new appliance, furniture, or even cabinets. 

 

At less than $10 per lin. foot of 10' wide material, that's quite affordable.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/257734841/outdoor-permanent-adhesive-vinyl-oracal?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-craft_supplies_and_tools-tools_and_equipment-tools-other&utm_custom1=_k_EAIaIQobChMI3pvThNmAgAMVuAGtBh

 

[combo52]

Rapping your major appliance into a new color

I have seen this done, and it can work very well with washers and dryers dishwashers and refrigerators, I would not try this on any range except maybe the front of the storage drawer something far from the heat possibly the sides of the range.

It still takes a lot of skill and you have to disassemble the product completely getting all hardware and trim off etc. to do a good job.

PS Gibson also made Poppy appliances in the 70s

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Cut the (c)wrap!

Didn’t we just say how flammable that wrap can be on the front and sides (the rear if it’s put back there) of the range? How come that one there doesn’t have any wrapping around the surface units on the top????

(I’ll wait…)

— Dave

 

[bradfordwhite]

One doesn't have to wrap all surfaces. If I were doing a freestanding stove I would do the front doors, sides and parts of the control panel. I'd leave the top unless I know I would be using the stove very sparingly.

We have to remember this isn't saran wrap; it's designed for exterior use on automobiles which have to withstand the elements 24/7. Anyone touched the hood of a car when it's been sitting in hot sun? That's hot.

 

[circlew]

Vinyl gives off noxious fumes when heated. You always whine about fumes from gas ranges, these would be worse. Burning PVC is one of the most dangerous components of smoke in structure (and vehicle) fires.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well there's what proves the point--those fumes emitted from that wrap...

Oh, and let's put that all over a gas range then to give you the double-treat of heat from that searing, sweaty plastic and the disagreeable smell of burning natural gas, the latter I'm a diehard fan of!

And I mention the instant inferno that range top will spew upward???? Yes, guaranteed!!!!

-- Dave

 

[bradfordwhite]

"Burning PVC"
If the wrap on your appliance were to reach the temperature needed to make it burn, some 700+ DEGREES, you're likely having many other much LARGER problems going on.

AGAIN, these wraps are designed for installing on an automobile and expected to be exposed to the OUTDOOR elements 24/7.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Wrapping a refrigerator

Nice color

 

[circlew]

Ignition of the material isn't the problem; fumes are emitted well under the temperature of it bursting into flames. Might not kill you, but certain to give the kitchen an unappetizing odor.

 

[thomasortega]

There are wraps that are safe for (somewhat) high temperatures.

Wrapping is actually a Brazilian thing that only now the US seems to be discovering.

It started with cars, because at that time, cars were expensive in Brazil, so people kept them for decades and paint jobs were outrageously expensive, so wrapping (or "enveloping") became quite popular back in 1960s.
Other factor that made wrapping popular was the DETRAN (The Brazilian version of DMV). Until today, change a vehicle color is a real nightmare. You must submit an application, pay an absurd fee, wait for months until they "authorize" the color change, then the registration must be mailed to DETRAN and the vehicle cannot be used until the color change is done and DETRAN inspects the vehicle with the new color and issues the new registration with the new color. (Total time, 2 to 3 years, considering the traditional Brazilian bureaucracy).

While with the wrap, you're not changing the original color, it's there under the wrap and many professional wrappers intentionally leave the bottom of the doors (visible only if you lay on the floor and look up) unwrapped so any traffic agent can see the original color.

From cars to appliances, specially in cities near the ocean. It started with blenders and stand mixers that started to rust and the wrap would hide the ugly spots. It quickly went to refrigerators and freezers.....then washers.... then fashion jumped in and there are zillions of plain white appliances that now look like stainless steel.

So, what became quite popular here in the USA a couple of decades ago is half century old news in Brazil.

Nowadays, the technology is so advanced that it's possible to wrap a stove, even the sides and oven door frames, with no fumes at all and no damages to the wrap.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Honestly, I’m kind of thinking after seeing all this is wrap

Is wrapping my Bock extractor as I think it would actually look quite nice against the stainless steel of the exterior, and potentially paint the lid bracket In the same colour as the wrap, where The lettering Bock and the Arrow in cream

 

[sudsomatic]

It's been on the back burner for awhile....


....to wrap my washer and dryer, not a stove, haha.

 

I've bought sample vinyl from different places and played around a little. For others interested, know that it will be a little more complicated than it seems in certain areas though.

Namely the top of each appliance. Vinyl has a lot of flex, can be stretched farther than you'd think before it hits the failure point, you can also use a heat gun to soften it then manipulate a little more to get some rounded areas.

 

But on washers and dryers the architecture gets complicated. Difficult areas are:

 

The washer/dryer top, getting the two front corners to meld seamlessly and wrinkle free, you're wrapping the vinyl and coming down by 90 degree angles around that curve, a lot of pulling and stretching to get that  corner just right. Then also the rear of the top, where it comes up in the back to hold the control panel, easier to do that more gentle curve than the front, but still some work.

 

The lid area on the washer (top loader) is difficult because of the concave depression where the lid sits and getting the vinyl to shape properly into the nooks, but, it needs to also wrap around the lip of the tub opening and then down and up on the inside there, where it will obviously get wet. This lends a lot of consideration as to will the vinyl hold properly, coming undone after all that water and agitation, and also, am I asking for mold to collect there if it comes undone at the edges but I don't realize this seeing it only from the exterior.

 

The lid itself is twice as difficult, the hard undercut of the lip, those rounded corners again but on 4 sides this time, the trickiness of having two pieces (one that covers the top and then wraps down and up into the edges of the lid, and a second piece that covers only the bottom) meet on the underside and trying to cleanly camouflage where they overlap. And then, again, another area that will constantly get wet

 

The dryer front is similar to the difficulty with the washer top, but made easier as it's not a wet area and often there is a bezel inside the dryer at the door to make a tighter, cleaner seam that also protects the vinyl edge by covering it up.

 

I haven't talked myself out of it yet, but a project I haven't fully taken on.