Decorating & Renovating
jani7
member
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Banquette?
Any thoughts on a banquette in a breakfast room? I am thinking of doing one. We have two small children so I thought it would be easy to get in and out of and cozy BUT I also think it might always be so dirty with dropped food etc.
Anyone have one? Love it, hate it?
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
Re: Banquette?
MIL has one in her breakfast area or for casual meals. It's cozy. She has seat cushions and pillows. With kids, I would totally avoid the fabric and go for all wood. Her grandsons are always messing up the pillows.
I'm assuming you are talking about a breakfast nook style with built in benches?
I'm actually going to be doing this in my kitchen this spring/summer. I don't have little kids, but it's a way to corral all the "stuff" around this part of the kitchen, which is near the door to the side of the house, and accumulates shoes because I have no mud room. Plus I have a baker's bench with bigger kitchen appliances, etc......needs some organizing. I'm using 18" high kitchen cabinets (that's seat height) to build the benches from then I have storage inside them, under the seat.
I think it would be fine for little kids. I purchased some faux leather at a fabric store a couple of years ago, and intend to make seat cushions from foam, and use that to cover them so there's no stains on fabric seating cushions.
Kids drop stuff on the floor whether you have a table or banquette. If it works in your kitchen, then do it.