Thrifty Refrigerator Revamp

"/> One thing I can bet almost all mom's want, is ways to make life with kids easier. I am a stay at home mom and I am constantly sweeping crumbs, cleaning spills, trying to figure out what the sticky spot on the floor is... you get it. Being a mom is messy!! The things I really don't focus on, are the messes that aren't visible. The fridge, the oven... yea, they don't get cleaned that often. But when I do finally break down and clean them, I need a lot of time, and a lot of elbow grease!! I decided to get some vinyl cabinet liner, and line my shelves in my fridge with it, instead of my cabinets. My cabinets are painted a not so pretty brown color and of course since I rent, nothing I can do about it. I doubt I'll find any pretty paper that would match that color (I think my dog pooped that color once) so I'm not gonna bother with it. Here is my fridge before

I really don't like my kitchen. The cabinets are that icky brown color (the color probably wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't on cabinets, cabinets should be a neutral color, this is not) there is border on the walls you know the old style border with apples, a glass bottle of milk, an old timey looking food scale... yea that stuff. I'm scratching my head at how i'm going to decorate around that. As of now, I don't think it's gonna happen, but we will see!! In the mean time, I'm killing 2 birds with one stone with the fridge. Getting some kind of pretty in the kitchen, and assisting in my lack of fridge cleaning.

 

My theory is that I will want to clean spills as soon as I see them because the paper is too pretty to get spilled on!! And if my theory is wrong, then I can just peel the stuff off and put some new on! I got a pretty large roll of this vinyl contact liner from Target for around $5, still have plenty left. So If I am too lazy to wipe spills up when I see them, I can change out the paper and prevent the spills from getting on the actual shelves, so when we move, we won't have a nasty fridge to scrub clean!! Not that I ever let it get nasty, but jelly isn't easy to get off once it's sat there and hardened over time!! So... in closing, this project cost me around $5, some time cutting and installing the paper, and I have a pretty fridge that's easy to clean and is renter friendly!