I wanted to get my tot a mud kitchen but it cost £100 so I decided to make it myself for just £31
Meg, from the UK, revealed her daughter's third birthday was coming up so decided to treat her to a mud kitchen for the summer.
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Meg shared how she made her own mud kitchen for just £31
Credit: Tiktok/@meggsfordays
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She ws stunned to see them selling for £100 so made it herself
Credit: Tiktok/@meggsfordays
However, she was stunned to see just how expensive they had become and decided to make it herself and document the process on social media.
In the video, Meg said: "Since when did a mud kitchen become a luxury item? You can't get a decent bu**er for less than a hundred quid these days."
The DIY whizz said she was able to make her own for half the cost.
Meg first used some timber that she bought for £5.60 from Wickes and cut it to length, with four pieces being the same size to create the legs of the table.
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She then made four more pieces of wood for the width of the table and to create stabilisers to join the legs together.
Next
, she used the same wood to make the length of the table and secured it all together with Wickes wood screws for £2.99 a pack.
Once the frame of the table was complete, Meg got to work on the tabletop by using wooden fence boards, a pack of ten cost £22.50.
She added a support beam in the middle to make sure the tabletop doesn't cave in and she also used the wood to cover the timber frame and then sanded them down.
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With the leftover fence wood she also created a backsplash for the kitchen.
With the structure of the mud kitchen now complete, Meg bought two metal
bowls
from the pound shop and drew around the bowl to cut out its shape into the tabletop.
'I was quoted £10,000 for a garden renovation but did it MYSELF for £1,000 using ChatGPT to show my kids what single mums can do'
Once sanded down, she added the bowls into the holes so her daughter had a mixing station.
Last but not least, she drew four circles onto the right side of the table to create a 'hob' and added some hooks and cooking accessories and the project was complete
"And there you have it, babes. We've just built a mud kitchen together," she said.
The clip soon went viral on her TikTok account @
People were seriously impressed with the mum's DIY skills and took to the comments to praise her.
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One person wrote: "You make it look so easy! This is my next project, but it's daunting."
Another commented: "The DIY Queen delivers again."
"I need you to build us one," penned a third.
Meanwhile a fourth said: "Smashed it."
"She's going to love it,' claimed a fifth
Someone else added: "Love the mud kitchen."
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