Building A Breakfast Nook With Storage

Note how our top fits flush with the outer trim.

Building a breakfast nook with storage.

We can all agree that they are rather a luxury in a home mostly because if you have a breakfast nook you likely have a formal dining room as well. Here s the first on my list of diy breakfast nook ideas. In this diy project the creator was able to make this fantastic breakfast nook with a table. Build the frame we used 12 2 4 s to build the frame for a 12 x6 bench.

In here you will find a breakfast nook idea for any kind of kitchen. 30 breakfast nook bench ideas that will cheer up your mornings if there is one thing in the world that nearly everyone can agree on it s a breakfast nook. 26 phenomenal diy breakfast nook ideas that you would love. Leave 2 3 gaps around the back and sides for clearance.

Diy breakfast nook with storage. Before i get into the tutorial i wanted to give you guys a little refresher of why i decided to implement a breakfast nook type banquette in my once formal dining room. I first removed the trim from the wall so i could reuse it on the front of the box later to make the bench match the rest of the kitchen. Use pieces of tape 18 inches above the floor to mark the locations of wall studs.

The space was an empty void in the corner of our kitchen so i decided to fill with a functional seating and eating space. This simple design can be easily scaled and made bigger or smaller to fit your space. How to make a custom breakfast seating nook. I will be listing the items we used as i go along with the tutorial.

A breakfast nook allows at least half of the seating around the table to be flat against the wall eliminating the space needed behind chairs. In this instructable i build a simple breakfast nook and kitchen table out of 2x4s 1x4s and 3 4 sanded plywood. Measure the area where your bench is going to be installed. It also allows the table to be tucked closer to the corner opening up floor space improving flow and making the room feel bigger all while offering additional storage.

This piece was for a client who chose to f. Making a breakfast nook w storage kitchen table. I completed this project in a weekend over 2 days. Essentially the idea of a formal dining room was no longer serving my family and i.

We made it so ours could open and have storage underneath. I have made the google sketch file available for. In this video i build a simple breakfast nook and kitchen table out of 2x4 plywood and pine 1x4 from home depot. 1828 likes 8 comments.

Easy to build diy breakfast nook. But today i like to show you how we put a kitchen nook bench together.