If you are lucky enough to have a breakfast nook or large eat in kitchen, then you have a great resource for your family. Of course, you can eat your meals in the breakfast nook, but this room can be so much more.
Kitchens tend to be gathering places for families and their guests in lots of different circumstances. First, at the end of the day your family might come to the kitchen while parents prepare dinner. This is a great time for kids to sit down and do their homework. The breakfast nook table is large enough so that your kids can spread out and do their work and they will be close enough that you can give occasional help and make sure that they are concentrating on their work and not being distracted by TV or video games in their bedrooms.
| Linon Ardmore Kitchen Nook Set |
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After the evening meal or after a weekend breakfast, it is convenient for one household adult to do dishes while the other works on bills or the household budget. Again, both of you are close so that you can discuss any issues, but you are multitasking.
Getting the dishes done at the same time will make you feel like you accomplished more that day.
You can also use kitchen nooks with storage for family game nights. Some corner breakfast nook designs have under the seat storage in the benches and this is the perfect place to store board games, cards, and poker chips.
| Hampton Bay Breakfast Nook Lift top Storage Bench, 34"Hx43.5"W, HAZEL BROWN |
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Having these items close by makes it easy to announce some family time after dinner. Everyone is already there and since the games can be brought out easily, there will not be time for people to escape.
If you have a young family and your kids do not do homework yet, you can still use your breakfast nook as a way to check in with them and spend time with them while you are preparing meals.
I keep art supplies in my kitchen breakfast nook with storage so that I can set up my toddlers with paints, crayons, paper, or stickers quickly. That way I can keep an eye on them while getting dinner or lunch ready and I do not have to worry about what they are up to in another room.
Incorporating kitchen breakfast nooks in to your designer kitchen can truly be a useful enhancement.