The breakfast nook is a room off the kitchen set aside for a dining table and chairs so families have a convenient place to eat more casual meals. So what makes breakfast nook furniture different from dining room furniture? The truth is that there is not much difference. Some furniture stores do not have specific sections for breakfast table furniture; they simply put all the tables and chairs in a category known as dining room furniture. However, there are some conventions that many people use to classify a dining room set as kitchen cabinets or dining room cabinets.
First, breakfast nook sets are generally less ornate and made from more common materials. Dining sets will have ornate table legs and often come in dark woods like cherry. Breakfast nook sets have simple legs and designs and are most often made from woods like pine or even chrome and formica. The general rule is that kitchen tables and chairs are less formal than those in the formal dining room.
Perhaps the most obvious difference between formal dining room furniture and kitchen furniture is that there are no benches in the formal room. Breakfast nook benches are quite common. In fact, the corner breakfast nook is particularly popular with many homeowners. Benches offer many advantages over chair seats. First, you can accommodate more people in the same number of square feet. You can usually fit one and a half people on a bench for each chair you replace. Plus, under-seat storage compartments give homeowners places to keep things they want conveniently located near the kitchen without taking up valuable counter or cabinet space.
Another difference between these two types of dining room furniture is that you won’t find round or square dining tables very often. The formal dining table is almost exclusively rectangular. However, you will find many kitchen nooks with round or square tables because these rooms are generally smaller and sometimes oddly shaped. It is very common for a corner to be shaped like a half octagon and protrude from the house. However, sometimes the corner is square and sticks out. Square corners can accommodate a square or rectangular table, depending on how far you can extend your dining room furniture into the kitchen.
Finally, there are some materials that you would never find in a dining room that are especially nice for the kitchen. For example, a table covered with tiles. Tile is extremely easy to clean after meals because it won’t absorb liquids like wood. If you have a tile top table then it would never be used in the dining room as the dining table is almost always covered with a tablecloth and it would be silly to cover the easy to clean surface with something that needs to be washed. .
