 Hi everybody! Happy Sunday! I hope you're having an amazing day today. I'm in the breakfast nook this morning. I have been spending so many mornings in here mixed between here and the lobby because I just love being in a bright space and both of these spaces are just equally as bright. I actually was not planning on filming this as a video for YouTube. I was going to film this concept that I have for my Instagram and TikTok because I kind of feel like we moved past the kitchen already but then I was thinking I might as well share it with you on how I'm going to be turning my dishwasher from silver to copper and what I can see right now is I'm really hoping that this works because I could absolutely ruin my dishwasher in the process and that's why I figured I might as well document this but as many of you know with my kitchen renovation I actually didn't swap any of the appliances except for the oven so I kept the original dishwasher and the original refrigerator that was already in the house when I bought it and the dishwasher is pretty generic it's just like a silver box there's not too much interesting detail about it I actually googled the other day if I could order like a sheet of copper and you can order a sheet of copper I don't know if you knew that but I found this place called Van Dyke's Restorers but it is the source for all your renovation and restoration needs and I ended up purchasing a rustic aged copper sheet that is like three feet by four feet and it ended up costing four hundred and forty six dollars with shipping so I'm really hoping that this turns out the role of copper is downstairs it's actually been here for a few days now I cannot wait to open it and see what it looks like I'm actually really interested to see what a sheet of copper looks like and we are going to put this on the dishwasher and I'm also gonna be putting a new handle on it as well this handle to be precise if you remember I actually ordered a pot rack for above my stove and I was only sent one this size which was not the size I had requested I actually had a custom size that was like 60 inches long so when I emailed the guy that I ordered it from he actually just let me keep this one and he sent me a new one and so I have this which will be a perfect handle on the dishwasher and it's gonna match the pot rack I just think it's gonna be such a fun idea so let's see if we can do this wish me luck this is the sheet of copper and this side is the side that is not oxidized or distressed the opposite side or inside of here is the distressed side so let me open it up and share with you what it looks like I hope it doesn't like fling open Oh my gosh that's a fling how does that look? so pretty on camera ooh wow that's a good piece of distressed copper on further investigation I actually thought that this right here held the little like name brand plate that would be like Samsung but actually those are lights so I'm going to need a hole punch out these three spots when we get to that section but what we're gonna need to start off by doing is actually removing these screws and they're kind of like the star tips so let's start with that looks to be one of these probably like this one too big perfect it's kind of long short oh no they have different lengths should we turn it off? it goes long short long what to do now there's wires and things let's maneuver this one over here oh and this comes off oh so does the whole front panel like just come off oh my gosh we can cover it and just put it back on get a handle here's our panel ready dishwasher front I removed the handle on it and we have our copper sheet laying on the table here and what I think I'm going to do next is literally place it on top with some adhesive but let me share with you what adhesive we're going to use for this so this right here is JB Weld and this is a quick setting steel reinforced epoxy and this is perfect for bonding metal to metal it literally creates a welded joint I've seen people mix this together and then try to grind it down with like an angle grinder and it doesn't even grind away at all so this is a product we're going to be using and I ended up grabbing two tubes of this at Lowe's it's like $6 a tube because we actually want the more distressed side which is over here the more oxidized look for this next step I want to be able to punch out these holes here when we add it to the copper so I templated the front with just a piece of painter's paper just like that just scribble over the top with a pencil and it will give you the whole marking this is my old scrapbooking punch from like circa 2013 that I still own we'll punch our holes so now we can figure out the placement I need to be able to punch these holes so I'm actually just going to rough cut about an inch above the dishwasher here I want to use the most beautiful piece of the copper so I kind of have it positioned in the center but I will have some access to use on other projects which will be nice so I'm going to cut it probably an inch from the top because we don't need much to wrap around the top side since it has the kind of control panel I'm going to save my scraps and put them back on the roll because I would love to use this in future projects use my same hole punch which is so nice because it goes in really far just punch out our light holes now because this is going to be kind of the challenging part the epoxy that we're using has a 6 minute cure time so we have to get the epoxy mixed spread on the front of this and have the copper sheet placed on top and aligned in 6 minutes so let's get to mixing the epoxy and putting the copper on the front we're doing this tag team imagine I ruin this starting to mix it smells fishy kinda it's a eyelash glue it is fishy I think just as long as we get it like oh yeah that's good that's great it's spreading pretty well 1 minute and 20 ew it smells like tuna salad oh that's what it is it's giving tuna salad am I supposed to like see these through there or something I'm looking oh no look at how perfect the holes aligned up with the lights look so good and we are going to add just a couple of books to the top just the corners just to ensure that it stays nice kinda flat and pressed while it cures for the next hour alright this has been sitting for probably like an hour and a half now and I'm sure it's bonded pretty well so this here is the top edge of the dishwasher and I'm just starting to kinda fold this metal I wanna find the corner essentially cause I need to cut up to the corner using this book kinda to press like go across the corner and then just press it down we're gonna cut up to the corner so I created this line here and I'm just gonna cut like probably a quarter inch down from there and this is actually gonna be sandwiched back in when we attach it back together gonna mix together some epoxy on top of this packaging and then we're going to apply it to the underside of the flap and then clamp it to dry open this up and put the epoxy on the inside okay so this is what I just added some paper towels so it did increase the top and that is now drying and I'm going to work on folding over this edge here best tool is a wooden spoon to get the edge nice and crisp it really bends it nicely and doesn't mar the surface alright the glue is added on the side here and I'm going to fold this down and then press it under so I started to press down that copper but then I realized it would probably be easier if we flipped this over so we laid down a towel this over and thankfully I had Marie and Justin to help me out with this process I started to fold over that copper edge there and just cut away any excess and I actually used the screws that fasten this to the front of the dishwasher door to screw down the copper and hold it in place while it was gluing on the edge I used some pliers to just fold over this kind of smaller edge at the top and I just folded this over and used a small bit of epoxy just to adhere that down once I got to the end there I used my scissors to fold over that small edge and then at the very bottom we just have about a half inch section so I added epoxy to that and left about an inch of copper that I was able to fold up as you can see and use a spoon just to fold it and crease it fold it back on the inside of the oven and then I used some painters tape to actually hold this down if you don't have clamps, painter tape also works great for this process we're on our last edge you guys I think that's pretty good we're going to do the same thing on this side I'm going to do the opposite side by adding a bunch of epoxy along here and then flipping it up and screw it into these holes so that it can hold itself because we only have five clamps and that's going to hold it while it dries I better look at how it actually fastened down the corners of the copper I just used this pair of jewelry pliers I've had in my collection of tools forever press down any kind of popping out sections and then I fold it back on itself and use suppliers to really squeeze it and just like mend the copper to itself essentially oh you guys look at that looks so good these right here are the holes that the previous handle was mounted to so there was like a bolt that went through the back side and the handle was on the front I'm just going to kind of press into this metal just to dent it so we have an idea on the front of where our new handle is going to go Justin would you like to place our handle in place oohhh that looks so good this is in lacquered brass so it's definitely looking really bright really shiny gold at the moment but after a couple of months it's going to patina down and get to all of the other metal in my kitchen which looks something like this here's kind of a better representation of how it's going to look after a little bit it just has like some age to it and a little bit of a patina that kind of takes away some of the brightness oh here goes nothing we have our two holes drilled here and this is going to be our new handle bracket and as you can see it's just going to kind of go on like this and how we're going to attach that are these screws that we got at the hardware store and then just a little wing nut on the back to hold it on and we're going to use one of these mounting plates just to reinforce one of the two screws so for example down in there and fasten it on look at it mounted bracket and we're just going to add the bar in the copper oven oh yeah keep forgetting it looks so beautiful and then we just have to take off these little tapes on the bottom the dishwasher is installed and I am so excited to share with you these reveal clips I love it in here it is so cool I was kind of scared it might like impact the marble or add too much like an oranginess over in that area it really bounces back to the copper pot so nicely so it's kind of like mirroring each other I love how the pot rack is the same on this side as the handle over here there's a little bit of continuity going through these two sections but let me share with you the reveal clips reveal clips I hope that you guys love this dishwasher as much as I do now I do know it might not be everyone's cup of tea not everyone wants a copper dishwasher but I love copper and one of the main features in the kitchen was mixed metals incorporating silver copper and brass to really get that kind of like triple tone of metal and I love the addition of the dishwasher and I will tell you guys this project only took about four and a half hours from start to finish from the time that I took the door off of the dishwasher to the time that I reinstalled the door back on that is how long it took so it was not a long process at all it definitely is a little pricey for sure but if you trust yourself with the process and you pick up a copper sheet I definitely think it can amp up any old dishwasher or if you just want to make a focal point in your kitchen it's definitely a way to do so so I hope that you enjoyed this video if you're not already subscribed here on loan fox make sure to click that subscribe button and then hit the bell icon next to it that way you get notified every time I upload a brand new video and I will catch you all in my next one bye guys