https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 00:24:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1272903 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:08:53 +0000 HLK208 1272903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: seriously, our marriage mostly only suffers when DH has to put together crappy furniture </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271605 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:15:14 +0000 HabesBabe 1271605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh crap, I have to put this together for C... LOL. Guess I'll do it gradually in the garage so I'm not stuck awake until 2am on Christmas morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271527 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:35:14 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 1271527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: I usually like it too - that was why I found this to be so weird and annoying. Broken parts will do that, I guess. </p> <p>The fun should resume Thursday night, once I hopefully have new parts </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271523 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:32:45 +0000 looch 1271523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh me oh my! This would be a terrible thing in our marriage, we specifically try to avoid having to put anything together.</p> <p>My husband refuses to read instructions and I can not tolerate half built things while we wait for replacement parts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271520 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:31:41 +0000 HLK208 1271520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aww, that's a bummer about the pieces that have to be replaced :(</p> <p>Ours took about 3 hours to assemble but DH wasn't actually frustrated, it just took awhile. Target dressers are way worse for him lol. Never again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271500 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:21:21 +0000 sorrycharlie 1271500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>is it weird that I actually like putting together furniture? DH can't stand it, so it falls to me anyway.</p> <p>that said, we will probably go with a plastic kitchen next year anyway. lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271492 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:17:55 +0000 mrs. wagon 1271492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I luckily heard about the assemblage time before ours arrived so we popped in a movie and set up some snacks before starting in! I feel bad now for making fun of Wagon Sr. for taking 3 hours to assemble it...! haha. </p> [attach=30/13/mxlmlx.600x398._dsc6183.jpg] [attach=30/13/mxlmm0.600x398._dsc6185.jpg] [attach=30/13/mxlmm2.600x398._dsc6190.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271473 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:08:31 +0000 chrispygal 1271473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh gosh, I don't think I'm going to tell hubby about this. We just ordered one for Christmas! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1271416 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:53:21 +0000 Corduroy 1271416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Confession time: this is why I buy hand-me-downs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270937 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:00:59 +0000 Kimberlybee 1270937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: LOL!!! He's a good sport then, sounds like a keeper. Hehehe :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270936 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:58:58 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1270936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kimberlybee: I know! And of course instead of helping I was like, you look ridiculous, I'm taking a picture :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270935 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:56:34 +0000 Kimberlybee 1270935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: What a labor of love! That looks super complicated, yikes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270932 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:52:01 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1270932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We also discovered this at like 11pm the night before DS1's 2nd bday, DH stayed up forever putting it together and at some point grabbed his drill and just modified pieces to make it work. I think this pic sums it up nicely, with the pieces all over our house haha... </p> [attach=1630/13/mxkz6q.600x338.IMAG2287.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270885 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:38:09 +0000 Kimberlybee 1270885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: Thanks for the heads up! Totally getting a PBK one in the future! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270877 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:14:56 +0000 fairy 1270877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! I will keep that in mind when we buy a play kitchen in the future! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270876 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:13:58 +0000 KT326 1270876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4 hours?! Holy cow! I was thinking about ordering one for DS but now I'm rethinking that... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270859 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:54:30 +0000 pregnantbee 1270859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nooooo. I'm sorry it's been so awful. We ended up getting a different KidKraft kitchen and husband took maybe 4 hours over the course of an entire day to put it together. Helped that we didn't have any defective parts. Hopefully they ship you a new part quickly and the rest goes smoothly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270832 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:22:46 +0000 autumnlove 1270832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:-( it took my DH 3 hours to assemble it...he was tired! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270828 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:19:39 +0000 winniebee 1270828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Shit. We have to do this this week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270820 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:08:55 +0000 BananaPancakes 1270820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked on it for about an hour this weekend and only got to step 13. I'm not looking forward to jumping back in at this point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270768 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:31:38 +0000 cascademom 1270768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took my dad and DH three hours to assemble ours. Our freezer top was slightly nicked too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270755 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:24:53 +0000 sandy 1270755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: @Mrs. Jump Rope: my husband majored in biomedical engineering too ;). </p> <p>We got the PBK kitchen and it was easy - most parts were assembled and pre-screwed so putting it together was so simple. So much easier than anything from Ikea </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270736 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:06:49 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1270736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Markers: I jokingly told my mother that all future gifts must come preassembled. Dh aeriously had a hell of a time building it... He said engineering finals were easier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270733 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:04:47 +0000 Mrs. Markers 1270733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>omg good to know! my mom bought one for A and hasn't put it together yet... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270674 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:39:06 +0000 swedishfish 1270674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is totally why I'm buying a plastic one when R is old enough. Hahaha.</p> <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: ps - my sister is a biomedical engineer too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270670 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:36:26 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1270670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband is a biomedical engineer. </p> <p>He never posts on Facebook but he ranted about our kidkraft last Christmas. It took him 4 hours to assemble. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270665 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:34:39 +0000 sunny 1270665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had defective parts too :-( the replacements came pretty quickly though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270633 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:21:44 +0000 mediagirl 1270633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh lord. Mine too me 4 hours to put together, too! Sorry you have defective parts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holy-friggin-kidkraft-kitchen-a-rant#post-1270629 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:19:57 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 1270629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am a fairly handy person - usually have zero problems assembling ikea furniture and other toys. This kitchen has 45 pieces in the box, not including the screws, nuts and bolts. </p> <p>I have been working on assembling this G-d forsaken kitchen for 4 hours, only to find that I have a defective part and need to have the bottom panel replaced. Plus I had to already order a replacement for the microwave door that came totally scuffed from the box. </p> <p>Happy F***ing Hanukkah Colin (belated of course, since the poor contraption is still in pieces in my bedroom). You better LOVE it.</p> <p>Anyone else have trouble with this? </p>