I am so excited about a project we made for the girls for Christmas! Backstory: We finally got JD a new desk to fit with his new job tasks, and then "had" to find something to do with his old falling apart one. Ok, I had been itching to try a pinterest diy, and J agreed to help me =D. It did mean we had to finally re-sell the kitchen we had used for years.. it was kind of a wrench, but this was so much fun!
If you look at it upside down you can see the part of the desk that we used.. the shelving part.
K helped me choose the colors.
Over the summer K helped me paint the top (we used scrap wood from the play house that JD built over the summer), and then I painted the cabinets and fridge door. I found a damaged can of magnetic paint at home depot, so I bought it for cheap and used it to death on the fridge door so it can eventually hold really strong magnets.
I sourced the knobs from a lucky-find washing machine by the dumpster and cleaned them off thoroughly.
Hinges, magnetic closures, and the fridge handle K helped me choose at home depot.
Then I asked JD to help me put it all together! He screwed the legs on, the top on, the fridge door on with hinges, the fridge handle on, an the magnetic closure to the fridge inside, and drilled holes for the knobs to turn.
Once it was cleaned off, I stuck on some contact paper from the Dollar Tree to make it look like a stone counter top. Then I sewed together the stove with fabric, some seat foam, some vinyl, and then made a flap that can open up to replace the LED pushlights under the burners. I glued large buttons to the bottoms of the two stove knobs and added button holes so they could turn as well. It was kind of a beast because I'm not really into following patterns, so I kind of had to make it up as I went along but it turned out very functional.
Then the stove was velcroed to the counter top, and cookies were placed in the cookie jar... and the other new food I made went in different containers under the Christmas tree. The cupboard on the right as you look at it is a dishwasher, and has a little bin for dishes. The other one is an oven and will use a freezer organizer as an oven rack.
It was even more fun watching K stock the kitchen, and it's actually fun to play with her with it, and stock it for her!
Here it is again, full..
The girls love it. C learned to pull herself up to her knees on it. It has plenty of storage for all the dishes and aprons and food. My favorite part is that the stove velcroes off, and I have major plans for it as a backdrop for other imaginary realms..perhaps a grocery store or a sweet shoppe, a food cart or restaurant, a dr office.. who knows!
