Vintage Inspired Play Kitchen

 I picked up this sad and dirty little kitchen at a storage unit sale.

When I say sad and dirty...I mean vile. Filthy. Spider eggs. It smelled...weird.

 

 The storage company had a bunch of people that were delinquent on their payments, so they sell all the stuff in the unit. Its sad that people lose their stuff this way....  But I'm not going to lie.... You get awesome deals from these types of sales. I felt like I was in an episode of Storage Wars or American Pickers. I scored a lot of really cool stuff for pretty cheap.

This was my first project using chalk paint and wax. I used a recipe I found online and went to town. It was so easy to use, although very time consuming compared to my usual technique of spraying. The bones of this little kitchen were pretty good, but the lower cabinets were in really rough shape so I decided to bag them (after about an hour of trying to get them to fit right, and level, and stay closed...grrr).

 Here is the finished project. I modge-podged paper doilies to the backsplash, added little hooks for teacups in the upper cabinet, used chalkboard paint on the inside of the cabinet doors, changed the pulls, and used vintage tea towels for the curtains. Several hours... but worth it.

I LOVE the way it turned out. This kitchen sold to a very nice lady :)

-LeeAnn