Finished Product

Ok I finally finished painting my Kitchen Aid! And I LOVE IT!!! Here are the before and after pictures:

Let me tell you a couple reasons why choose to do this. First did you know that it is cheaper to buy a plain white Kitchen Aid, so just get yourself the cheap white one and paint it whatever color you want. Second this Kitchen Aid was a gift from my sister a long time ago (get this she got it for free and gave it to me because she already had one) so I didn't really get to pick the color. Finally I love green!!! I want everything to be green, so I made it happen.

Ok now what you all want to know the step by step instructions:

Step 1: Your tools

1 Philips head screw driver, scissors, 1 good knife , painters tape (I'm sure masking tape would work too). Even though this isn't in the picture clorox wipes and a q tip is good to have around. You will also need a cardboard box to set it on when your painting, and of course your paint but I will explain more about that later. 

Step 2: Clean your Kitchen Aid really well. 

Get everything nook and cranny. Clean it once and come back and clean it again. YOU DO NOT WANT ANYTHING ON IT WHEN YOU PAINT!!!

Step 3: Remove parts...

I know what your thinking... I don't want to do that!! It is really easy trust me. First you want to remove the silver band that runs across the front of the machine that says "Kitchen Aid" on it. This can be done by looking on the back of you machine and you will see a screw on each side just unscrew them lift up a little bit and it should come right off. The next part that you want to remove is the bowl holder I will call it. There are three screws in that just unscrew and they come right out. I also choose to remove the back of the machine by just unscrewing the top screw and painting the separately, so that I didn't have to worry about the vent holes. I would really suggest that you do that as well. It made things a lot easier.

Step 4: Tape

You want to tape any piece that you don't want painted. I taped screws and nobs and anything that I wanted to stay their color. This is where the knife came in really handy. What I did was take the point of the knife and run it around the outside of the screw to get the basic outline of the screw. Next I would use the scissors and cut the shape out. Take your time doing this. Make sure you get everything.

You can see in this picture that I took off the back and painted it before I did the rest of the machine. This was to make sure I could tape the vent really easily. You also want to put take about half way down the cord. Also when you tape the silver just about the mixer head make sure you push the tape up into the head. 

Step 5: Paint

Ok so I got this really nice spray paint that said it could paint on metal (I think this is a must). Like I said in step 3 I painted the back cover first then I attached before I painted the whole machine. Make sure when you are painting that you don't get too close. You want to make nice long even strokes. You also want to make sure you get every nook and cranny. I did two coats the first day and then another coat on the second day. I put it on a cardboard box just to make sure the paint didn't get on anything and nothing got on it. 

Step 6: Put everything back together

This is the final step just put the parts that you took off back on and enjoy. I also look to make sure that I didn't miss any spots, if I did I just put a little spray paint on a q-tip and brushed it on with the q-tip.

It was a lot easier than I thought. I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out! I was really nervous at first but I'm really happy I did it.

Well on the next project!