Ikea Duktig Kitchen Hack – Fun and Colorful

This Ikea Duktig Kitchen hack takes the plain Ikea kitchen and transforms it into a fun and colorful kids play kitchen with just a bit of paint and paper!

Ikea Play Kitchen Makeover

This Ikea Duktig kitchen hack is from my pre-blogging days so I apologize for the lack of in-process pictures but I will try my best to give you a sense of exactly how I did this!

The Duktig kitchen was actually a gift for my daughter’s 4th birthday. I love the functionality and the sturdiness of it, especially for the price. Of course, I couldn’t leave it plain and brown! It needed to be fun and whimsical. So I gave it a fun colorful makeover using paint and scrapbook paper.

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Paint colors and materials used –

• Rustoleum Titanium Silver 
• Rustoleum Seaside
• Rustoleum Sun Yellow
• Krylon Make it Stone! in Charcoal Sand
• Clear acrylic
• Mod Podge
• Colorful scrapbook paper
• Spray Shelter (Optional but recommended)

How to makeover an Ikea Duktig kitchen-

If you don’t have access to Ikea, the Ikea Duktig play kitchen is also available on Amazon although it is a bit more expensive.

Before assembling the kitchen, the oven door, microwave door, faucet, sink and handles got a brushed stainless steel look. I used Rustoleum’s Titanium Silver for this.

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Next, I assemble the base structure leaving out the doors and the countertop. The base structure and the bottom door got a coat of Rustoleum Seaside.

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Let’s talk about the hutch – all the parts of the hutch got painted separately before assembling in Rustoleum Sun Yellow.  I found the microwave keypad printable here and used mod podge to attach it. 

Before assembling the hutch, I figure out the exact location of the selves and used mod podge and colorful scrapbook paper to add “wallpaper” and shelving paper.

The Counter –  I used Krylon Make it Stone! in Charcoal Sand to give it the stone texture. The key to using this stone effect spray paint to achieve a well-distributed texture is to use quick short bursts. I followed it with a few coats of clear acrylic to seal it in.

Yes, I used mostly spray paint because I didn’t own a paint sprayer at that time and with a 6-month-old on my hip, I didn’t have the patience to paint by hand.

I left all the parts out in the backyard to outgas for almost a whole week before bringing them in and assembling everything.

The kids love it and have been using it for almost 4 years now! The paint still looks brand new!

Play kitchen accessories shown –

• Stainless steel cookware and utensil set – find it at Ikea too.
• Coffee machine and toaster – a hand me down – similar set here.
• Plastic play food
• Plates and bowls – find it at Ikea too.
• Laugh and learn tea set
• Kids oven mitts – discontinued – Similar here

Check out my favorite play kitchen accessories –

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