Kitchen: Purchased! And Chicken Obsessing.

We bought our kitchen today! And while we were waiting for our order to be processed, we had a good 30 or so minutes to wander around and admire some of IKEA's offerings. And of course, all I could think about were chicken coops. I'm starting to see chicken coops in EVERYTHING. Garbage can? It can be converted into a coop. Red Flyer Wagon? I could build a gypsy wagon style coop on it! Old pickup truck? I could use it to haul wood to build a coop with! You get the idea.. I've been obsessing.

And since I was in the kitchen section, I got to thinking... "Why couldn't you make a cabinet into a coop...?" And as soon as I got home, I fired up the Google Machine and did some research.

Check out this sketch-up for an IKEA style cabinet coop from a group of architects in Paris, via The Poultry Project:

Image from The Poultry Project-
(many more awesome mockups of this at the link above)

Could you imagine how great it would be to swing by IKEA to pick up a flat packed chicken coop?? I think they're onto something great! No way could my hens live in my kitchen though...

And as I kept browsing, I found this gem built out of a 30" sink cabinet they found on clearance posted on the Backyard Chicken forum:

The forum thread can be read Here

Check out the sweet interior:
It's a bit too small for my future flock of three I long to have someday (maybe I should get bantams?), but it still serves as a great inspiration. What I love most about chickens is the amount of creativity people are putting into keeping them. There are so many fantastic ideas out there.. and I can't wait to see what we end up with.