Customer Reviews

KidKraft Prairie Kitchen

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

After a ton of research, I purchased this play kitchen for my twins' 2nd birthday, and we all couldn't be happier with it! I chose the Prairie Kitchen for several reasons:

1. SO CUTE! It looks like our kitchen. It's not too girly looking, and it blends in well with our decor (as opposed to the pastel or primary colored kitchens).
2. Good size. Two kids can easily play together, and the counter height is 20" from the floor. My twins are very tall, and the counter height is perfect, yet they have to stretch to reach items on the shelf.
3. Realistic features. It looks like a real kitchen with gas burners, a grill, silver faucet/sink, wainscoting, towel bar, clickable dials. Lots of kitchens have features that look vaguely like the real thing.
4. Oven has a middle rack, like a real oven (many kitchens don't have this).
5. Kidkraft makes solid products and has a variety of play kitchens on the market.

The only thing I'm unhappy with is the sink--I wish it was metal, like the faucet. It's painted plastic and is already getting scratched up. It's also removable (pops out), and the kids are constantly pulling it out, wearing it as a hat, and fighting over it! Luckily, Kidkraft provides free replacement parts.

Bottom line...this kitchen exceeded my expectations! The kids love it, I love it!

I am so pleasantly surprised. I cant speak to the durability of it because I just got it yesterday but I assume looking at how it was built that it is a keeper. What I can say is that the reviews that made it seem impossible to put together were not, for me at least, correct. It took me a solid couple hours but considering my youngest threw all the screws up in the air it may have taken less. When my husband got home and advised me that we own an electric screw driver I flinched but yet again it would have made it even easier, so really it was ok to build. It is adorable, well built, and she took to it right away and woke up thinking about it the next day. I did buy it for much less that this at [...] even though I paid 24 shipping it still came out worthwhile. I only didnt give it five stars because I think an item needs to be outstanding beyond expectation.

bought this kitchen set for my 2 year old i love the detail its very realistic and its so much nicer and way more durable than plastic ones my other children had. my 2 year old lovesit. putting together was a little bit of a pain but well worth it

I bought this for my 2 yr. old girl and she loves it. This goes so well with her room decor and it's soooo adorable! Mine came with pastel pink knobs and handles, so it's perfect. But I wouldnt recommend for for any kids older than 3. It's just perfect for her height right now.

We ordered this kitchen or our almost two year old for Christmas but it gets used by a 6, 3 and 2 year old. We chose this model because of how cute it was and that the company replaces broken items free of charge. In these last seven months we have had to order and replace one of the pink handles twice, the oven rack wall and a door. They have broken the sink so it no longer snaps in place, but they love to carry it around. One of the oven knobs has never clicked when turned, but the kids don't care.

It seems like our choice to go with a company that replaces the parts free of charge has been a good one, but I must say that the particle wood that these are mostly made out of are prone to wearing quickly where screws and do dads are connected. Once the screw comes loose you have to get the whole section of wood replaced because the hole is stripped. It took quite a while to put together and so we have left the door off and haven't yet fixed the broken panel inside the oven until we have the time to take it completely apart and rebuild. It is getting annoying, but the kids still love it.

I like this kitchen but I was slightly disappointed that the wood is manufactured.It's not plyboard or particle board and it's sturdy but it's not real wood so that you know. Overall I love the design and how nice it looks.We had to use the hot-glue gun to glue the sink in place(the kids broke one of the plastic tabs that is supposed to hold the bowl in the hole).It did take my husband almost 2 hours to assemble.By the way the color is not white but yellowish-white.It looks good though.

I was looking for a birthday gift for my 5-year old daughter and thought that this play kitchen was nice, not overdone with colors and/or options. I thought it was a bit bigger, but it's not that important. It is work for two people to put it together, but it's sturdy and true to description. Overall, I am glad to have purchased it and my daughter will have a nice toy for few years.

I bought this for my 18months child,and she just loves it!!! It was pretty hard to assemble( took me and my husband 2 hours) and also some of the holes on the panel was missing, so we had to screw a few in by ourselves, since we didn't want to go through packing and sending and all.
However, our girl just loves it and it really does look much better than the picture! Since it's wood,it becomes a nice touch of furniture.The sink comes off easily, so it becomes my daughter's hat sometimes..but I love watching her have a great time with it!

This kitchen is well-designed and built. There were two minor manufacturing defects: a hinge-pin hole was drilled on the incorrect side of one part (I drilled the hole all the way through to fix it and it works perfectly but there is a hole visible where there shouldn't be one -- no big deal) and a hole was drilled in the middle of the upper back wall for no apparent reason (it appears nowhere in the assembly instructions or the picture, and nothing is provided to attach to it, but I will probably put a small hook there to hang a potholder soon-to-be-custom-made by Grandma).

Otherwise, it took just under two hours for me to assemble, and that's moving pretty smoothly through the instructions with little confusion at all. There are probably more packaging parts (styrofoam, foam wrapping, cardboard, etc.) than parts to the kitchen, and that's saying a lot. It was well packed and protected, but the mountain of trash was something to behold (two kitchen garbage bags full, crushed and packed in, plus the big box!). Based on its finished size, I question if it would be much more expensive to assemble at the factory with high-speed equipment and techniques and package one complete unit rather than individually wrapping and packing dozens of parts with foam blocks to separate them. In any case, I am happy with the finished product and can't wait to see the look on my three-year-old's face when she sees it in the morning for her birthday! It is a good product.

The kitchen is adorable and after days of research was the one that I picked for my 15 mo old. Yes there are a lot of pieces but the support and customer service provided by KidKraft is excellent. I must warn you however that this kitchen, although it looks white in the picture, is not really white... it's more of an off white/yellow color like it's shown in the video.

When I first received it, I was very disappointed with the color, but a quick call to BabyAge proved to be one of the easiest returns I've ever made. They immediately without question, sent me a shipping label so that I could return the product without paying for shipping AND they refunded me the full amount (price of kitchen PLUS original shipping cost). The transaction was done quickly and smoothly and I got email confirmations at every step of the process.

Basically this was a risk free purchase. I did end up buying this same kitchen but in pink because I still felt that this was the right kitchen and at the right price for my daughter. Plus I'm a huge fan of KidKraft. Excellent quality without charging an arm and leg. I would definitely buy from BabyAge again as well due to their outstanding customer service.