Thread: Cooking up a storm

I really know why I retired. It doesn’t get much better than this.

My son recently wanted some advice and time in my shed. He and his SWMBO designed a play kitchen for their daughter’s second birthday which was two days ago. She (my Granddaughter) loved to be part of food preparation and my son previously made a stand for her to get up to bench height. I made her a play stove and she had pans and “crockery” that she used regularly. She had also taken over one of the drawers in the main kitchen for her plates and cutlery.

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The design for the new play kitchen had to have a deep drawer, an oven with knobs just like the Smeg one, handles to match the big kitchen, an overhead shelf, and a canopy so that the kitchen could also be used for a “shopfront”.

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Materials used were mainly 19mm radiata pine, 3 ply and a laminated piece from the Big Green Shed for the benchtop. Drawer insides were recycled Oregon (Douglas Fir).

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My son is very fussy and insisted on soft-closing drawer runners.

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He spray-painted the knobs and dowel oven racks with chrome paint. The oven door has a magnetic closer.

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As I said at the start, it doesn’t get much better than this. Being in the shed with my son, making a special gift for my granddaughter. It sure beats work.

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