Wooden children's kitchen for girls: how to install with your own hands, instructions, photos, price and video tutorials

The kitchen is one of the most important spaces in human life. It is intended not only for cooking, but also for creating comfort in the house. It should be noted that this room needs constant care and an almost sterile environment.

A children's wooden kitchen is intended not only as a toy, but also to teach a child to cleanliness and order, as well as to instill the basics of family life. At the same time, many psychologists believe that this forms the personality of children, being an individual property and subject of responsibility.

Kitchen for a child - we build it ourselves

First of all, it should be noted that wooden children's kitchens are inherently miniature copies real interior items and therefore their manufacture is often carried out by ordinary furniture shops (see also article about

wooden kitchens). However, the price of these products is sometimes too high, which leads to the independent production of all the necessary elements and items.

Project creation

First, you need to create a project of all the elements and place them on the floor plan where the installation will be made.

• First of all, you need to decide on the size. Usually, children's wooden kitchens for girls are copied from real drawings of existing furniture, changing the set parameters for the physical data of the child and the room where this furniture will be installed.
• If necessary, you can exclude some elements or boxes to simplify the work and make the product cheaper.
• Do not equip such kitchens with high voltage lighting fixtures.. If necessary, they can be replaced with low power lamps powered by DC power supplies.

Advice! As a project, it is best to take interior items that are already present in the apartment. This will not only be of practical importance, expressed in the child's getting used to working in the kitchen, but also create an aesthetically beautiful appearance.

Choice of materials

An ordinary children's kitchen made of wood is not affected as much as standard furniture and its service life is also much shorter. Therefore, choosing materials, you can save a little.

However, it is worth remembering that all the elements necessary for creation should not contain harmful substances that can be released over time or under the influence of other factors.

• When choosing materials for the kitchen, you must be guided by the calculations that are obtained from the project.
• To facilitate this action, you can contact special companies or stores that are not only sell wood panels and chipboard slabs, but also carry out their pattern and subsequent finishing veneer.
• You should also take care of the fittings. Usually, a children's kitchen for girls made of wood is equipped with original hinges and handles that are used in standard furniture. It is not worth saving on them, but to reduce costs, you can purchase simpler fasteners and door openers.
• Dear countertop for kitchen can be replaced with a material that will imitate it and at the same time its price will not be too high.

Advice! All materials are best purchased from one company. This will help save a lot of money and eliminate the incompatibility of the fittings when cutting and assembling it by employees.

Assembly

This process is practically no different from assembling a standard kitchen. It assumes the use of exactly the same fasteners and mounting elements.

Therefore, you will need the following tools and materials for work:

• special screws called "conformates";
• modified drill for conformats;
• drill;
• metal corners for fastening;
• self-tapping screws for wood, no more than 0.6 cm long;
• screwdriver;
• a hammer.

If the installation will be done by hand, then the grooves for installing the door hinges are best done with the help of employees of the company in which the purchase and cutting of materials was carried out.

Advice! Given the specifics of the use of such furniture, it is recommended to reinforce all attachment points so that they can withstand a large weight.

Installation

The standard installation instructions advise the use of special impact dowels, which are in the shape of a hook, for attaching the top boxes. You can also use strips that are stuffed onto the wall and allow the drawers to slide along them, as if along guides. However, children's kitchens should be fixed taking into account the specifics of use.

It is best to use standard hinges, which are fixed on the wall using impact dowels with a head larger than their inlet hole. For greater reliability, some experts suggest connecting the upper and lower rows, as shown in the proposed photos.

Conclusion

The design of a children's kitchen is no different from ordinary furniture used for premises of this type (see also the article on do-it-yourself children's kitchen from boxes). It has the same fasteners and drawer design.

At the same time, the video materials provided show that there are a huge number of different colors and modifications. of these interior items, which have long ceased to be toys and have become full-fledged representatives of their class.