Ideas for Decorating Your Breakfast Nook
For some reason when people gather in your home, they will probably gravitate towards your kitchen or breakfast nook. For whatever reason, this is where you will spend a lot of your time. Therefore, you want this room to reflect your personal style and compliment the interior design of the rest of your home. Even though the room is small, you have several opportunities for decorating.
The centerpiece of your breakfast nook, the table and chairs, are the first step to creating the perfect look for this room. You can make a big decorating statement with the selection of your breakfast nook set. If you choose a set with benches and a wooden table, then it is obvious you are going for a more country style home. If you choose an aluminum table with a glass top and aluminum chairs then I would expect your home to be quite modern. Whatever furniture you decide on, make sure that it matches the rest of the dcor in your kitchen like cabinets and appliances.
Once you have selected the material, you can add several small touches to your kitchen furniture. These touches can help with a color pallet or decorating theme. Many times the seats or backs of chairs can be painted a particular color to match your cabinets or bring out a subdued color in your countertop. Tables often have tile borders that will match a backsplash in your kitchen. Tables can also be painted with designs and then sealed with a laminate to preserve the effort.
If you choose not to dress up your furniture with color or design then you can add that splash of color with cushions or placemats. Both benches and chairs can hold cushions of various colors or textures. Placemats can be for everyday specialty use. Everyday placemats will usually be a solid color or texture like the cushions. Specialty placemats can help decorate your kitchen for any holiday.
Even though you will not do it every day, when your home is on display, you might sit china at the kitchen table. The colors and designs on your china can help to decorate the room. Many people use this technique in their formal dining rooms. This would be a nice touch if you were showing the home to a prospective buyer.
Breakfast nooks and eat-in kitchens typically have three walls full of windows and almost everyone has some kind of window treatment to protect their eyes from direct sunlight and glare. These window treatments, whether they be curtains or shades offer another decorating opportunity. In addition, the hardware from your curtains or shades will most likely be covered by a valence or cornice. The curved lines of the valence or cornice will be a nice contrast to the straight lines of the kitchen provided by cabinets and appliances.
Natural light is every architect and interior designer’s best friend. Breakfast nooks with many windows have an abundance of natural light. Nevertheless, when the sun goes down, a light fixture can be a fixture in any room and especially in one as small as the breakfast nook. The overhead lighting can be understated with recessed lighting or spots or it could be a major statement with a hanging chandelier.
When people think of decorating, they often think of hanging art and fixtures on the walls. While decorating and interior design are much more than that, the lack of wall space could pose a decorating problem in the breakfast nook. However, arts and crafts stores have many projects available to help. You can buy decals and paints especially designed for glass art. In addition, if you learn how to make stained glass then you can hang ornaments on the window with suction cups and the light coming through the window will highlight it nicely.
Breakfast nooks may seem like they do not offer many decorating options, but in fact, they do. By using the elements that you need in the room for functional purpose as decorating tools, you can make quite a statement with your breakfast nook.
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