This should be an easy one?

Take the pre-war pristine condition stoves from the Homemaker mod and make them fully functional like that ugly wreck the vanilla game lets us "build".

I'm making a Spectacle Island Compound as a personal home for me and Cait. I'm mostly using Institute and pre-war stuff.

Do you mean a functioning cooking (crafting) pre-war stove? The "ugly wreck" as you put it could mean the post war version, which doesn't work for crafting either.

It can likely be done, but theres no animation for it to be used as such like the wood stove has.