By XAVIER SMERDON
THE kitchen is often the hub of activity in any house, but one Wyndham organisation is taking that to a whole new level.
Last month the stars of popular lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens visited Wyndham where they filmed an entire episode.
Part of the show was shot in the Bunnings Hoppers Crossing store, where an entire kitchen was built.
After the cast and crew of the show packed up and rolled out of town, the decision of what to do with the kitchen still needed to be made.
Bunnings decided to donate it the Werribee Men’s Shed, a group that provides an outlet and a network for older men to pass on their handyman skills while making new friends.
Volunteers from the Men’s Shed dismantled the kitchen and will now sell it on eBay to help them buy new tools.
The Head of Community Development at the Men’s Shed, James Dredge, told Star the wider community would benefit from the sale of the kitchen.
“We jumped at the opportunity to take the kitchen and we had all hands on deck pulling it out so we could get it back here,” Mr Dredge said.
“It’s a very, very nice kitchen. It’s extremely modern and it has a solid bamboo top and sides.”
Mr Dredge said new tools would be bought with the money raised so the Men’s Shed could continue its work.
“This will help us out a lot,” he said.
“We’re helping men help themselves. Becoming a member of a Men’s Shed gives a man that safe and busy environment where he can find many of these things in an atmosphere of old-fashioned mateship. And, importantly, there is no pressure. Men can just come and have a yarn and a cuppa if that is all they’re looking for”
To place a bid on the kitchen search for Werribee Men’s Shed on eBay.
