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Built-in Kitchen Banquette
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Nesting with Grace
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We recently added a built-in Banquette to our 120 square foot kitchen. We are really enjoying all the extra seating the new banquette created. The seat of our banquette opens up for extra storage. What a difference it makes to our tiny cape! The previous home owners didn't have a dining table in this small kitchen and now we can seat eight people and have squeezed 10 kids around this spot. We did some major renovations to this kitchen too- cabinet refacing and tile.
BEFORE banquette and kitchen remodel.
BEFORE we built the banquette and remodeled the kitchen
AFTER- we made some major changes along with the banquette. I have more details on the entire kitchen remodel on my blog.
I wanted to make sure we had enough room for pillows, creating a cozy spot to sit.
Taped out the space and size of the banquette first.
Built it in a day- it is not attached to the floor so it can be removed.
Lot of storage on both sides.
Finished space with shelves for display and to pull together the butcher block counter top on the opposite side of the kitchen.
Overall it took about 7 hours to complete!
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Published April 6th, 2017 9:22 AM
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Clydia Crabtree Craig on Apr 25, 2024
I did this but I used prebuilt cabinets, the kind that are over refrigerators, bolted them together, cut a top to fit and I have storage for board games, puzzles for when my grands come to visit. also storage for place mats.
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Gos106188820 on Jul 28, 2024
Great idea!
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Really nice work, where can we find the dimensions of the banquette?
I am not trying to be critical, I just have a question about the framing. It looks a little overdone. Does it need to be that heavy? I am currently in the process of a kitchen remodel and was wondering if the framing could be a little less or is it necessary to make it that sturdy? Yours looks great and has inspired my design going forward. Thanks for the post.
Amazing! But how did you do that floor?