We made a gorgeous play kitchen for our LO out of almost all repurposed materials.
Our friend from church had an old kitchen cabinet and formica counter top. DH sawed off the top of the cabinet to make it short enough for our daughter to reach. He then moved the cabinet drawers, completely removing one (to create open shelves which we planned to cover with cute material but ended up leaving open to make more inviting for our daughter) and splitting the other in two. He refastened on of the new cabinets horizontally and installed a shelf to make an oven. The cut a heart out of the other one and also installed it horizontally. We painted the inside white and the outside red. We cut a hole in the top and inserted a metal bowl with a lip. I found a faucet head at the thrift store and we put that behind the bowl. We bought some handle things at the craft store and painted them silver. We painted "burners" on the top of the cabinet. The whole thing cost us about $50 and many, many hours
:. We asked everyone else to buy kitchen accessories for Christmas and now it's incredibly well stocked. She loves it and we love that we made it for her and saved some junk from the landfill.
I've seen some super cute "Ikea hacks" as well, but they're not necessarily repurposed.
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