Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

What do you do if you like the look of stainless steel, but you’re not interested in replacing your perfectly good appliances? You paint that stainless steel on, of course. GE puts out a paint for appliances that looks like the real thing, but that is based on automotive finishes and doesn’t smudge like true stainless steel.

If you do want new appliances, but are turned off by the high prices of stainless steel, you might want to read Stainless Alternatives with Painless Price Tags, an article from the Real Estate section of the Wall Street Journal; it takes a look at some lower cost alternatives that have a similiar look: “To lure cost-conscious customers, some appliance makers are introducing similar-looking products made with cheaper materials, from aluminum to lower-grade steel painted in colors like “meteorite,” and even plastic that looks like stainless steel.”