DIY play kitchen

I’m so excited about this post!!!!
I enjoyed this project so much and I’m so happy to share with you all how I did it.

I’ve been wanting to get my girls a little wooden play kitchen for a while but they can be a bit costly and really generic. So with that in mind I made a decision to make them a DIY play kitchen instead if buying one.

First thing I needed was to find the right furniture. That was definitely the hardest part of the job.
But thanks to my dearest mother I didn’t have to wait too long.
She found a old bookcase being dumped out and she quickly called it to my attention!

This was perfect!!!
The height and the wight would work perfectly for what I wanted to do with it.

Here’s my little girl trying out the height and also trying to help.
You can kind of see in the photo that I (i mean my lovely dad) chopped off the top half of the bookshelf.

Here we marked the hole where the sink would go. We just used an old metal kitchen bowl. You can buy them in pound shops or in my case I just stole one from my mum’s kitchen, oops.

O yes, and I also removed one of the doors. You will see why later!

My dad had an old tap in his shed so that came in handy!!!
He drilled a hole on the side and fixed it next to the sink.
I removed the other door and sanded the furniture roughly before I painted it with a primer.

I painted the outside and the top front of the kitchen ‘egg shell’ and painted the rest white. I also varnished the entire furniture with a water base clear varnish to make it that extra bit more resistant to scratches.
The stripe that looks like I forgot to paint is because I will “tile” the splash back of the play kitchen.

The door on the left that I removed earlier was cut to make it look like an oven door and painted white.
And yet again my dad came to the rescue!
He had some clear acrylic which I screwed onto the back of the oven door.

I added a silver handle to the front of the oven door and voila!!
Oven door done!!!

I fixed the sink in place with some “no more nails” glue.

I painted the inside of the oven black to look more realistic and added a wire rack and a light to the top.
I attached 5 silver knobs that my dad had laying around which he kindly donated to towards this project.

The back splash “mosaic tiles” I made using some colourful card paper, wrapping paper and wallpaper that I cut into little squares. I glued it all onto a piece of white card, to look like white grouting, which I measured to fit the bottom of the wall. And glued it to the wall with pva glue and gave 6 coats of clear varnish to protect it!
For the hob I used the lids of coffee containers I had asked my mum to collect 4 me. I glued them with no more glue aswell (I used this a lot in this project).

I found a really cute fabric full of cupcakes and made this cute curtain to give it a more vintage/ cottage kitchen feel! And just fixed it to where I removed one of the doors. I found a pink box where I put all the kitchen play food and other items to keep it all tidy behind the curtain.
I will be posting a tutorial of how I made the curtain later.

I made a little shelf for more storage and put 4 hooks under the top of the furniture to hang their little tea cups.

On one side I screwed more hooks to hang tea towels and aprons.

The other side made a magnetic board using a cheap oven tray I bought in a pound shop which I wrapped the border with some fabric and pva glue and I glued it to the kitchen with “no more glue” again.

I printed a cute quote and put it in a frame which I bought in a carboot sale for really cheap and sprayed it pink. And I glued that on aswell.
Then I glued this hook rail to hang their little oven gloves and accessories. I will post a tutorial for the oven gloves later too!

That’s it guys!!!
The last thing was just to have fun with the accessories.

Some of the accessories I made myself. Like cake stands and dessert display cabinet, I will be posting some tutorials later, so keep a look out.
And some of the play food that I make for my girls I will also be sharing it here!!
So if you like the cake and these little desserts don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss any of the tutorials!!!

The end!!!
I hope you like it!

P-S I thought it would be good to list how much I spend making this little kitchen to show you how much cheaper it worked out for me to make it rather than buying it:
Furniture- free
Sand paper- £1.25
Paint- free (I had these left over from painting the house)
Varnish- free (borrowed from dad)
Sink/bowl- free (from mum’s kitchen)
Tap- free (from dad’s shed)
Knobs- free (from dad’s shed)
Cooker- free (coffee container lids)
Shelf- free ( piece of wood from dad’s shed)
Shelf brackets- £0.75 each
Hooks- £2.80 for 6
Fabric- £2.49 per metre
Acrylic- free (dad’s shed)
Wire rack- £1
Oven light- £1 for 2
Picture frame- £0.20
Pink spray- £3.50
Oven tray- £1
Hook hanging rack- free
Pink box- £2.99
Accessories- £12
Total spent= £29.73