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How to Spruce Up Your Breakfast Nook
How to Choose a Breakfast Nook Table
9 Favorite Breakfast Nook Table Styles
A formal dining room is great when you’re hosting guests, but when it’s just you sipping coffee or just your family gathering for a Thursday night dinner, an informal and cozy breakfast nook is the perfect place to gather. If you already have a breakfast nook but it could use a glow up, you can spruce up your breakfast nook with a unique dining set complete with a corner bench or upholstered banquette.
In this article, we’ll discuss breakfast nook design ideas, break down how to choose the right breakfast nook for your space, and recommend some of our favorite breakfast nook table styles from Colder’s.
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Shop NowWhat Is a Breakfast Nook?
A breakfast nook is a small dining area that typically contains a table and two or more chairs, and it often features bench or banquette seating. Your breakfast nook might be right off your kitchen, a bonus eating space separate from a dedicated dining room. But it’s not uncommon to find a creative spot to create a breakfast nook in an otherwise unused space. Apartment dwellers can put awkward empty corners to use with even a small table and two chairs. Whether you have a spacious or small breakfast nook, you can utilize your space to create a practical and stylish breakfast dining area.
If you have a breakfast nook and dining room, the former is likely the place your family will eat more often. Breakfast nook furniture is all about creating a casual, cozy, familial vibe that makes you feel comfortable and at ease. The family style seating at a breakfast nook is more inviting than formal dining room seating for day-to-day meals, homework sessions, and coffee drinking.
How to Spruce Up Your Breakfast Nook
Do you have the perfect spot for a breakfast nook in your home? Perhaps you have a kitchen with a breakfast nook or unused space in the corner of your living area. The key is to keep it cozy!
There are plenty of breakfast nook ideas to draw inspiration from. You can start with a favorite art piece, fabric, or color palette. Or, begin your journey by choosing your favorite design style. You can create a modern breakfast nook with a sleek banquette or look for inviting and casual farmhouse breakfast nook ideas. Maybe your idea is a vibrant Italian breakfast nook that makes you feel like you’re on vacation or a modern French bistro-inspired design. When it comes to designing your breakfast nook set and creating a unique family dining room, let your creativity run free.
✔ Did You Know? If you have a traditional set of table and chairs, one way to spruce up your breakfast nook is to choose a breakfast nook dining set with a corner bench or banquette. This kind of breakfast nook seating can be made of wood or upholstered in a fun and colorful fabric.
How to Choose a Breakfast Nook Table
There are several factors to consider when choosing the right breakfast nook table for your space. According to our design experts, stick to these factors.
✅ Breakfast Nook Table Shape and Size
The shape of your breakfast nook table set depends on the layout of your dining space. A corner bench is the most popular style. You can pair a round, square, rectangular, or oval table with your breakfast nook table, again depending on the layout of your space and what makes the most sense. Round and square tables are ideal for small breakfast nooks while rectangular and oval tables tend to seat more people but require a larger space.
✅ Breakfast Nook Design
We already discussed how your favorite design style can influence your breakfast nook table of choice. A modern breakfast nook will favor sleek and simple silhouettes while a glam breakfast nook may feature elegantly tufted upholstery. For a traditional breakfast nook, embrace dark, rich wood tones and keen attention to detail such as ornate carvings and woodwork.
✅ Breakfast Nook Practicality
You’ll also want to consider how your breakfast nook table can serve the practicality and function of your space. A bench seat with hidden storage can increase your storage space in a small kitchen or decrease clutter in your space. Upholstered seats can add comfort. Bench seating can fit more people than chairs, especially if you often have a lot of kids around your table.
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9 Favorite Breakfast Nook Table Styles
Brunches are waiting to happen. All that’s missing is a perfect breakfast nook setup, and we think we have just the one with our roundup of top picks. Take a peek for some inspiration.
Linon Tobin 2-Piece White Corner Nook Set
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This L shaped breakfast nook combines white and light wood to create a warm and bright breakfast nook. This set would be at home in a boho, farmhouse, or coastal design. It is the perfect neutral backdrop for fun colors and patterns. Although the banquette isn’t upholstered, you do get the benefits of hidden storage, and you can add cushions for a cozy touch.
Linon Tobin 2-Piece Natural/White Two-Tone Backless Corner Nook Set
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This round breakfast nook table is similar to our last pick, but it features a backless L shaped breakfast nook table. It would pair well with calming and earthy blues and greens or warm pops of red, pink, and yellow. In a small space, this can provide all the seating you need, but if you have room, you could pair this with two chairs to provide extra seating.
You can drive your favorite design style home with the chairs you choose. For example, to make this a cozy farmhouse breakfast nook, choose neutral upholstered chairs, but to create a coastal feel, wicker chairs would be perfect.
Linon Chelsea 3-Piece Walnut Corner Nook Set
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This breakfast nook corner bench is perfect for a traditional dining area. It is quintessentially classic with its warm-tone walnut wood, curving shapes, and inlaid wood design on the seat backs. The bench seats boast hidden storage units and the bench style seating all around can allow you to seat more people than you could with chairs in the same footprint.
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Linon Parkside 5 Piece Antique White Breakfast Nook Set
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The two-tone wood and white finish, along with the antique details and adorable silhouette of this breakfast nook, make it stand out as a classic choice for farmhouse and coastal dining room. It is simple and yet there is so much attention to detail from the wood trim lining the top of the bench seats to the curved shapes at the bottom of each base. This would be perfect for an antique or farmhouse dining area.
Linon Sasha 5 Piece Capri Blue Nook Set
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These dining room seats are extra comfortable with their upholstery donned in a bright blue color. A small breakfast nook can make a big impact with blue as the accent color. White wood crisply contrasts the Capri blue upholstery, creating a bright and cheerful dining space. This design works well with so many kitchen color palettes, whether you have white or wood cabinets.
Linon Sasha 5 Piece Charcoal Nook Set
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This breakfast nook table set easily seats five people, and it boasts a simple silhouette and neutral color palette perfect for a contemporary or transitional design. Woven upholstery adds a touch of comfort and texture and you can personalize the space even more with cushions, wall art, or a rug.
Linon Sasha 5 Piece White Coffee Nook Set
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Choosing a patterned fabric is a great way to create a fun and whimsical breakfast space. If you have little ones, it’s also super functional because patterned fabric hides stains more easily than a solid fabric. If you are a coffee lover, this is the perfect upholstered breakfast nook table set for you with café decals in a fun and international look that will take your breakfasts on a voyage during every occasion.
Linon Colby 4 Piece Walnut Dining Nook Set
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This breakfast nook with storage is a lovely option in medium-tone walnut wood. As opposed to our traditional style wood pick, the silhouette here is a bit simpler, making it adaptable to a number of design styles, including contemporary settings. Depending on the accessories and color palette you choose, this could lean contemporary, transitional, boho, farmhouse, or coastal. The possibilities are almost endless!
Linon Parkside 5 Piece Antique Black Nook Table Set
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Another take on a cozy breakfast nook is to make it dark and moody. This antique black breakfast nook table set features a two-tone black and wood that will create an inviting corner to gather with friends and family. We love the simple shapes and sleek look of this set, which allows it to easily adapt to a number of popular design styles.
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Designing a beautiful and functional breakfast nook doesn’t have to be hard. There are a few simple rules of thumb: keep it cozy, embrace bench seating, and follow the cues of your favorite design style. Colder’s has the best selection of breakfast nook tables in the Milwaukee area. Stop by one of our Wisconsin locations to browse breakfast nook tables in person.
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