Wood Stove Makeover

November 30, 2012 · by Sherri · in all posts, home, tutorials - random

Our wood stove is probably almost 25 years old and has kept us warm for many winters! I was looking at ’her’ one day and realized that although she still cranked out the heat, she was looking a little lack-luster to say the least! I thought I’d share how EASY this project is. I was done in 90 minutes! If you have a stove that needs a face lift read on…

I went to Lowes and picked up these inexpensive items:

rustoleum high heat stove spray paint

plastic drop cloth

painters tape

steel wool

Here it the where we started… Looking really bad you can see…

I spread out my plastic and taped around all the feet so I wouldn’t get any paint on the bricks and tucked the plastic in behind the stove pipe – you can’t see this because of the sun shining in – oops!

Then I taped all the handles….

and all the other ‘gizmos’ that I didn’t want painted black

and then I gave it a good rub down with the steel wool - you can see in the next picture that I’ve done the left side of the tray portion already – cleaned up nice! Then I wiped it down with a wet cloth to remove any dust.

Next is the fun part! Shake your can up well and spray! You will want to open a window first but it is relatively neat – no big mess at all! Hold the can 6-8″ away from your stove and spray evenly moving back and forth . I gave it a quick first coat, and then another second coat. It dries super fast. Oh yeah – maybe you might want a disposable latex glove – my ‘trigger finger’ was a little black when I finished – just a slight diy occupational hazard! I removed the tape and plastic and WOW!!!