One mama's adventure in "The Compact": play kitchen tutorial

You know those awesome entertainment center turned kid's kitchen tutorials? Like these ones here, here & here. Well we don't have that kinda room in our 900 sqft bunga-tiny ;) However we did have a tiny little plastic piece-o-crap that the kids kinda liked. Well, I didn't like it because it wasn't big enuf for both of them to play with (irony, I know). We put it on the porch last week and were going to sell it at the IL's garage sale. Next thing we know, The Hubbs is selling his guitar to a family and the dad brings all of his kids when they pick it up. The 7 year old was the one buying it with his own money (he sold his Nintendo DS to fund it. Can I say awesome kids and awesomer parents?). Anywho, the dad also had a 5 year old son who was DD and a 2 year old daughter. The 5 year old saw the kitchen on the front porch and asked to have it and of course The Hubbs said yes. Nothing better than giving a toy to a kid who will really love it.

Moving along in the story (can you tell I get side tracked at 9:30pm?). I went to "The Army" yesterday afternoon because we wanted to get the kids a new kitchen. They had no such thing, so I started brainstorming. I remembered the entertainment centers turned kitchens, but I just couldn't pull the trigger on $20 and that much living room space gone. Then I came upon it. This little night stand/end tabley thing. It was $2.89. This project took me 3 hours, but could have easily taken 1.5...but I've got 2 busy kids. This is it's story...

Sanded (so the paint will adhere better)

Primed

Painted using Egg-shell/Satin (you don't want to use Flat b/c you can't scrub stains off)

The Hubbs is a prof. painter and all the paint used is left-overs.

I painted the top a dark gray/green. The orange circles are the "burners"

Finished

The tools my hubby let me use ;)

Miss A enjoying her part-way-done kitchen. We're going to cut a hole in the top right and sink a mini sink and faucet. The middle section will get a door to use as an oven and the bottom is going to get a curtain for storage of their pots and pans.