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Adding A Kitchen Banquette Eating Nook

We always love a big kitchen renovation when it comes to Reader Redesigns, but sometimes making over just the corner is enough to get us inspired bigtime. Just check out what Deme and her family did to the breakfast nook of their dated kitchen. Here’s her email:

Hi Young House Lovers! Your blogs is one of the highlights of my day and I wanted to share our  breakfast nook with you. After removing a thick lacquered chair rail and scrapping layers of fruit patterned and 70’s wallpaper, we ended up with some pretty fugly untextured walls.

Deme Before

We started with a dark dungeon of a corner and ended up with something bright, fresh and uber functional for our young family of five!

Deme After

I scored an L-shaped bench on craigslist to give us some additional seating (our previous table could seat four, leaving someone in our family out of luck at mealtime). We said goodbye to the honey finish, giving it a fresh coat of white paint.

Deme Storage Benches Intro

Even though the benches were a pretty standard style, they had storage in the seats, which helped solve the problem of our art/craft supplies that were scattered throughout the house. We lined them with some graphic shelf paper and they now hold all of the kids’ painting/art supplies, homework necessities, and learning activities for our youngest bambinos.

Deme Benches

When it came time to paint the walls, I planned to use stripes to help this corner feel larger. But I also can’t help but be pulled toward the ombre trend, so we went with a subtle ombre stripe treatment for our backdrop.

Deme Artwork

We used a digital scrap booking kit to break up one of our favorite Dr Seuss quotes into four prints (“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”). We framed them with some white lovelies we grabbed on sale at Target… they mark this space as a place to learn, explore, and create!

Deme Flower

Overall we are so happy with the change to this little kitchen corner! It serves so many functions for us and I can’t help but smile whenever I walk into the kitchen… especially since the rest of the kitchen is in that ugly mid-cabinet-painting stage of DIY kitchen reno! ~Deme

Deme Owl

It’s a fun update, right? I’m jealous of the storage benches. And I think the paint treatment on the wall is pretty awesome too. She’s got plenty more details and extra photos of the makeover (including updating their existing table and chairs) on her blog. Thanks for sharing Deme!

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  3. Ally says

    “our previous table could seat four, leaving someone in our family out of luck at mealtime”

    I feel bad for whoever was “out of luck at mealtime”…hope it was Daddy, and not one of the kiddies! :)

    All joking aside, such a happy space, Deme! Well done! :)

    xox

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  7. Alix says

    Hey youngsters! L-O-V-E the new and improved header bar (so simple!) and the easy to access button with shortcuts and galleries! Great update! Love how you both are always improving and going with the flow. Go YHL go!! :)

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  8. Elizabeth says

    Those walls look really cool! I saw this makeover on iheartorganizing last year and thought it was very clever but forgot all about it! I will now save the link so I don’t forget but not sure I am brave enough to try it myself yet.
    Those red chairs are so fun and happy!

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  10. Liz says

    What a beautiful room! Those pillows on the bench are perfect! I would love to know where they came from. Hoping (for my sake) they are not homemade;)

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  12. Lindsey says

    Repurposing furniture, amazing design choices (ombre gray walls- whaat?!?), great color pops… this nook has it all! I LOVE it!! Way to go Deme :-)

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  14. Courtney says

    I have this same bench seat in my kitchen, and I love the inspiration I got from this renovation! I’ve been half-heartedly searching for cushions, but they’re pretty expensive and not-my-style, but it never occurred to me to make my own. These look great!!

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  21. kiag says

    THIS WAS PERFECT! We have the worst kitchen/dining room set up ever and with our need to use the table for our homework area this seems like it will fit the bill! I see my next project! Thanks!

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  22. Barbara says

    Just wanted to say how much I enjoy the Reader Redesigns. It’s nice to see other spaces and get introduced to other style blogs that I wouldn’t have found otherwise. Keep on mixing it up!

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  24. Mike says

    Great idea and a very cozy place you’ve got there! A bit of nautical decore – and you’d have a splendid maritime-themed nook there…

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