Play Kitchen

I've been wanting to make one of these for a long time!  Ever since I saw this blog post from my very talented cousin (in-law) Amanda.  I spent a while looking for the perfect side table (at the perfect price).  One Saturday morning, I left the kids and Jared home to go garage sale-ing by myself!  I stopped at a ton of sales and NO tables.  While on my way home, I saw a women taping a "FREE" sign on a table by the road.  FREE is always the perfect price, so I stopped.  Turns out this table was an antique phonograph table.  The women, her granddaughter and I loaded it up into my van and I headed home!  It was a project I knew I would need help from my handy hubby, so it took a while to complete.  But, it's finally done and the kids love it!  Enjoy some fun before, during and after pictures!
Oh and I've had this beauty in my basement for a long time, waiting for a face lift.  It was also a side of the road freebie, so it will become the pantry to the play kitchen.

Pantry-before

Phonograph table- before

Helpful kids :)

 We had to cut the legs off to make it the right height...

And, it took more power tools to get a hole cut for the sink and faucet (insert handy hubby here).  Jared also added hinges to the bottom of the door and a handle to turn it into an oven!

The sink is a big dog bowl and I found the faucet for $.50 at a garage sale!

We borrowed this paint sprayer from my parents.  It makes the painting go SO much faster.  And it looks better than brush strokes.

Wish I had this for all my other projects!!  

Here are the after photos!!

I used a very light purple color that I got on clearance a few years ago.  For an accent on the pantry, I used a $1 paint pod sample.  The black on the doors is a chalkboard spray paint.  I also made a little curtain to cover the storage side of the kitchen.

The burners are wooden plaques from Hobby Lobby, spray painted a metallic silver with craft sticks cut to size, painted and glued on top.  The knobs are wooden wheels (also from the Hob Lob) painted with nuts and bolts, so they can still turn.

And, yes, that is a glass tile backsplash :).  I wanted some sort of backsplash, and we happened to have some random pieces of tile left over from doing our kitchen at the old house.  We cut a piece of MDF to size, glued the tile on, slapped some grout on it and screwed it to the back of the kitchen.  

The kids love playing with it, and I love play food, so it gives me an excuse to get a little more :)!

Baking a pie!  I lined the inside of the oven with contact paper, since I didn't have enough paint to paint it.

She is always washing her hands and getting water :)

I think the total cost for this project was around 15-20 bucks!!  It helps that I had a lot of the stuff beforehand and that my cabinets were free.