The new one is the one on the top.
Great, like it! It follows one of my own design rules at home - if you can’t hide it, promote it!
Here’s how good your replacement is: I assumed the one on the bottom was the DIY one and you’d 3D printed it. Top one is much prettier.
I like it better than the original, unironically.
Replace the other one too!
I am beyond sick to death of ‘everything is either landlord white, or stainless steel and black’.
I honestly do too.
The Japanese even have a term for this kind of thing: Kintsugi - for when instead of hiding the repair you embrace it. I like the aesthetic personally. I think it adds character. I’ve got plenty of builds and repairs like this around the house that might not look so pretty but are handmade and of high quality.
Yep, yep yep yep, fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.
Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…
Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…
We all need to shift toward that.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.
We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.
… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.
Skyrim fridge
Now remove the bottom and re-do that one and your fridge looks meant to be that way, and better.
Not gonna lie, I spent like 5 hours on the first one. Had that been a commission for a customer, it would’ve been a 300€ fridge handle. Two of them would more than double the price of the fridge itself.
Ya lol. Thats always the way. Mass production really reduces the cost of everything like crazy. Anything one builds for themselves is always going to be crazy expensive compared to factory made. Unless they have all the equipment already, and knowhow to do it real fast.
Nice! I’ve got not metal or woodworking skills, but I do have a 3d printer. I’ve been doing these types of repairs lately and it’s just soooo damn satisfying. I replaced some broken pieces of a shoe rack the other day and felt like a god among men.
I’m yet to dive into that rabbit hole but it’s just a matter of time. My understanding however is that the technology is already mature enough to be actually practical for normal users too.
Yeah I got my first printer something like 5 years ago and it was much more tinkering than the average person would probably want to put up with.
I bought a more modern printer recently and it’s a night and day difference. For the most part, you can just tell it to print something with substantially less manual intervention.
You need to break the bottom handle too
I love this
You should also replace the bottom one. It’s a little “DIY”, but it’s still an improvement on bland white plastic
And then they match.
My dilemma would be do I really want to replace one that isn’t broken and risk fucking it up more? Versus having to look at handles that don’t match.
Why did you do it in all white?
Yeah I might have at least spray painted that handle.
If it weren’t crooked, I’d vote for painting it.
I quite like the aesthetic in general, the crookedness would drive me mad.
It’s not off by much - looks worse in the picture. I still gotta tweak it a little bit.
Very stylish, barely noticable repair 🤣
That gives the fridge ao much more character. Love it! Now do the other one!
Damn ugly, why would a manufactuer use such a bland white block of plastic.
Also you now need a stein glass and a horned fur trimmed helmet btw, I don’t make the rules.
At this point just rebuild the whole fridge with wood and steel. It looks so much more long lasting, durable and worthwhile than the white poly* material.
