My "formal" dining room is right next to my kitchen and the tables are about 7 feet apart in plain view of each other. The kitchen is mainly used for breakfast and the dining room for dinner, so I want to keep the dining room as a dining room, not change its purpose.
I am buying a new table and chairs for the dining room and probably the kitchen too. How can I coordinate the two of them? I'm not a matchy matchy person but I want the looks to be cohesive, including the light fixtures.
The kitchen table area is pretty small, maybe a small island instead of a table and match the chairs/stools? Or a pub height table?
I'm stumped!!
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I like Dawn's idea of the kitchen nook. If that can't work the island idea is good too.
Can you post a picture of the area in question? It is pretty hard to advise without a pic.
Hi, I prefer for Bar stools because it is more stylish and it gives rich look, several bar stools have swivel, so that you can adjust it.
It's hard to know what style you'd prefer without a picture, but here are some nook ideas. There's a lot of different ways to make that work. Having a bench against the wall saves space, since you don't need room to pull out chairs for that seating, and adding chairs is optional.
This first one is from a Sarah Richardson show:
You may not need the chairs as shown, and you could go with a simpler bench along just one wall instead of using a corner bench.
This next one is from Cobi Ladner's kitchen:
I think she used an ultrasuede fabric that wipes clean. Sometimes people fashion this kind of bench seating using kitchen cabinets.
Here's a few more:
Ikea has a wooden bench or two you could paint any colour, and sometimes people make them from headboards.
I have the same situation as you, with my dining room table very near where a kitchen table goes. If my L-shaped kitchen was large enough, I would have both a nook AND an island that could take 2 stools. This would work for my family of four since we use the dining room table whenever we all eat together anyway. The island with 2 seats would work for the kids at breakfast or if DH was having a quiet coffee with his newspaper, and I would have the nook to 'spread out' at while doing a lot of crafty things I like to do at the kitchen table.
I agree with Dytecture. Go with some kind of an island with stools. Just make sure that the colours of wood match - do not have an set of oak chairs and table and then a red wooden set of stools for the kitchen.
Hi Uralmom, you might want to invest in an moveable island cart for the kitchen instead of having 2 sets of tables so close to each other.