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TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST NOOK

Oznell — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:05:36 GMT

Love this breakfast nook in a traditional house. Like the way it incorporates pinks, but not in a cutesy way. A room that would be great for tea time, too.

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JYWilliams — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:10:43 GMT

I like it. It's plain and simple in a good way

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DREAMON — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:53:50 GMT

It's ok but the chairs look too close to the window wall...it does not look comfortable to me.

I can already see the nicks in the window sill/ half wall.

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Big Joanie — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:54:31 GMT

that's a shade of pink I love ...

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Big Joanie — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:55:17 GMT

I should have specified .. the drapes ...

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Desertdi — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:10:31 GMT

My aunt had a breakfast nook that looked just like a corner booth in a "soda shop".

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GingerHead — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:33:25 GMT

Beautiful. My eyes were instantly drawn to the elegant pink floor to ceiling drapes. I love pink and that may be the perfect shade, dusty and nudish. Like you said not at all cutsey.

Pretty furniture and flower arrangement and I love when people hang stained glass windows in their windows.....

The only thing I may change is the stripped rug.

Maybe something like one of these....I just want more pink!

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shoptilyadropagain — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:28:23 GMT

Not a fan of the furniture or the pink!

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Desert Lily — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:38:12 GMT

I agree with @GingerHead : that rug has to go. All of her suggestions are so much better.

I also agree that there's no room for those chairs against the window sill. How would the person sitting in the chair in the corner ever get out after crawling on the 1st chair to get in.

I guess anybody can call themselves a "decorator" online, but not allowing enough space for chairs at a table is such an obvious error.

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bikerbabe — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:39:16 GMT

I like except the drapes. Not a fan of that odd bland color.

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bikerbabe — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:39:49 GMT

See, now I love the rug. 🤣

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Citrine1 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:46:45 GMT

So pretty! I like the entire space.

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tansy — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:59:20 GMT

The heavy bench is not friendly for its purpose.

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Oznell — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:50:05 GMT

While it exudes charm, I'm not aware that this nook is from a designer's hand, or a homeowner. Didn't check. To me it doesn't matter, if I like it. Designers often bring their special expertise, and can be so talented; but so can regular people, who have such a personal investment in creating sympatico surroundings for themselves.

@Big Joanie and @GingerHead , I love the curtains too-- "dusty pink and nudish", what a good description!

I keep looking at the first image and thinking that they are a rose ticking stripe-- they are a stripe, right?

But, @bikerbabe , agreed, I like the rug too-- it's an important part of the look for me. Playful but muted, again, the softly colorful stripes-- love. For some reason, that rug reminds me of the Bloomsbury group, Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell's bohemian house, "Charlston"...

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CANDLEQUEEN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:55:10 GMT

pretty! very simple. The only thing is the chairs do not look very comfortable!

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faeriemoon — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:00:52 GMT

Very sweet. I'm generally don't harp on one thing I don't care for in a vignette, but I'd choose another rug. It was mentioned up thread, and I totally agree.

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GingerHead — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:03:37 GMT

@Oznell I totally agree about it not mattering if spaces are designed by designers or not. I usually don't even check or know and I've seen good and bad examples of both.

I've never met with a "designer" because I know I am one whose passionate about my home (that personal investment you mentioned) and noone could do it as well....maybe "to the design books" better but not something that would speak to my heart and soul as much because I painsakingly picked and created everything myself.....

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jubilant — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:31:18 GMT

I love the dining set. Very pretty. I wouldn't have thought to put a rug like that in the room but I think it's very attractive. A very pretty dinette!

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kindred cats — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:41:37 GMT

Love a breakfast nook!

Just need cushioned backs on any chair these days for comfort.

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Bonkers1 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:10:39 GMT

It looks starchy and that you would need to be dressed up to use it.