For our newest lookbook, we have rounded up eight kitchens with welcoming breakfast nooks of various sizes and shapes that present a relaxed place to get pleasure from a meal.
Usually tucked right into a nook in or close to the kitchen, breakfast nooks provide compact eating areas which can be extra informal than a proper eating room and cosier than an island bar.
They’re normally characterised by banquette seating fastened to the wall with a freestanding desk and chairs, however the examples on this lookbook present how the concept of a breakfast nook could be tailored to go well with any dimension area.
From L-shaped benches in awkward kitchen corners to curved banquettes beneath bay home windows, learn on to see how a breakfast nook could be nestled into any house for the right morning espresso or informal meal.
That is the newest in our lookbooks sequence, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes houses with outsized home windows overlooking lush views, homes with closed staircases and interiors that embody the “bookshelf wealth” development.
Teorema Milanese, Italy, by Marcante-Testa
Design studio Marcante-Testa overhauled an condominium in Milan with a wealthy combine of colors and supplies, creating a transparent separation between the kitchen and an adjoining breakfast nook with its alternative of surfaces.
Geometric flooring tiles within the nook distinction with the marble kitchen flooring, however the two areas are tied along with the sea-green color of the tiles and kitchen cupboards.
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Budge Over Dover, Australia, by YSG
This breakfast nook sits within the nook of an open-plan kitchen and residing space, subsequent to bi-folding doorways that open onto a pool terrace.
Inside design studio YSG designed the nook’s banquette seating to comply with the curve of the wall and upholstered it in brown and inexperienced cloth to go well with pure surfaces within the Sydney house, together with terracotta flooring tiles, darkish wooden accents and marble tabletops.
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Zwaag house, Netherlands, by DAB Studio
Beneficiant U-shaped banquette seating wraps the partitions of the nook on this kitchen, located in a house in Zwaag, the Netherlands, that was renovated by Dutch inside design apply DAB Studio.
The studio selected gray upholstery for the seating and positioned an Arebescato Orobico marble desk on the centre to stability the expansive use of wooden on the ground, ceiling, partitions and kitchen cupboards.
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Pacific Home, Australia, by Alexander & Co
A round skylight illuminates the curving breakfast nook on this oceanside house in Sydney, which structure studio Alexander & Co renovated to make it extra suited to household life.
Aiming to create a relaxed and contemplative area, oak built-in seating was tucked in opposition to a concave window that overlooks a swimming pool within the backyard.
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Steele’s Highway Home, UK, by Neiheiser Argyros
Steele’s Highway Home is a Victorian terrace in London that was renovated and prolonged by native studio Neiheiser Argyros to extend pure gentle within the house.
A breakfast nook was added to the kitchen, with curved bench seating constructed under a bay window providing a extra informal place to eat than the separate formal eating room.
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Nagatachō House, Japan, by Adam Nathaniel Furman
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman nestled an L-shaped breakfast nook within the kitchen of the 160-square-metre Nagatachō House in Tokyo.
The tabletop adjoins the cupboards within the U-shaped kitchen and extends alongside a herringbone-tiled wall. Pink shelving was constructed over the nook to offer extra storage within the compact condominium.
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Brunswick condominium, Australia, by Murray Barker and Esther Stewart
Architect Murray Barker and artist Esther Stewart created a breakfast nook on this Sixties Melbourne condominium by tucking an L-shaped fastened bench into the nook of the kitchen.
The kitchen was initially too small for a eating desk, so the duo eliminated a wall that separated it from the lounge and added the custom-made desk and seating, which is lit from above by a sq. skylight.
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Casa Pulpo, Mexico, by Workshop Architects
Native structure studio Workshop Architects added a breakfast nook when renovating a Spanish colonial home in Mérida, Mexico, aiming so as to add a way of cosiness.
Seating was constructed within the nook of the kitchen between two archways that result in the lounge and a storage room. On the other facet of the kitchen, glass doorways give views of two purple concrete dwellings that had been constructed within the backyard.
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That is the newest in our lookbooks sequence, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes houses with outsized home windows overlooking lush views, homes with closed staircases and interiors that embody the “bookshelf wealth” development.
