Prop kitchen
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Topic: Prop kitchen
Posted By: DFTDONNA
Subject: Prop kitchen
Date Posted: 9/03/10 at 6:06pm
| I am in the process of designing a set that needs a kitchen. I need to have a refrigerator that opens. I can't use a real one due to weight. I am looking for ideas of how to make one that looks realistic but does not have all the weight of a real one. Has anyone done that before? |
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 9/03/10 at 7:08pm
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You could try what we did by picking up an old fridge, from our local Council rubbish tip, That has an knackered fridge & Freezer graveyard. Holwever we had a bit of messing about finding the same model door, because they are removed for safety reasons. If you don't want to go to that extent, I'm sure you could find one localy availble that's to be chucked out. Once the motor [compressor] is removed along with it's associated guts, leaving just the carcase. We retained some of the electrical system to ensure the the inside light & door switch were working. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: bmiller025
Date Posted: 9/03/10 at 7:22pm
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I agree with Joe. You can't duplicate the exterior of a refrigerator without spending more than the original cost of the appliance, and they aren't all that difficult to take apart to remove all the heavy parts. I have done it a few times in my career. The worst was an old fashioned one from the 1940s. All of the un-needed parts were totally rusted out, and it was a nightmare to remove them.
------------- http://www.brianmiller.biz/BrianDesign.htm |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 9/03/10 at 9:26pm
I agree Brian it's like pushing 'it up hill with yours nose & eventually going in ever deminshing circles untill you fly up ones own transum! Accoms Razor comes to mind  ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 9/07/10 at 3:56pm
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We actually conquered this problem a few years ago. We took a fridge door and mounted it on the kitchen wall over a cut out hole. We put a wheeled unit behind the hole to look like the interior of the fridge when the door opened during the scene. The unit could be wheeled away during scene changes and the crew came on through the fridge door. The kitchen was decorated so it looked like the fridge sat in an alcove. ------------- Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse |
Posted By: DFTDONNA
Date Posted: 5/15/11 at 11:19pm
| Just want to let you know how we solved the problem. We approached an appliance store in the area and they agreed to donate an old fridge and oven that had been pulled out of a house where they were installing new ones. The cabinets and sinks were donated as well from a friendly contractor who was redoing a kitchen in a senior housing development. The set was fantastic and cost us absolutely nothing. It can never hurt to ask. |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 5/19/11 at 3:51am
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May I suggest having the fridges guts removed, that is the compress & affiliated gear. This will make it lighter & easier to handle. that is if you don't have to return it & it's not a loan fridge. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |