Big Changes Afoot In the Breakfast Room

The breakfast room -- an addition we made to Linderhof in 2007

We had no casual dining area

And what started out as a floor and a door

ended up being a real room.

Our intention was to make it look like a porch we enclosed

And I think we succeeded for often people will ask us about our

"enclosed porch"

We furnished it simple 

seven years ago

We started with this table

A game table, I think, because of the shape

And four chairs

Because a table needs four chairs!

In 2008, at an Estate Sale,

We found this darling English walnut oval table

We liked it much better than the original one!

And at the end of the room

against the south windows

We placed a baker's rack

Perfect for plants and plates!

However, one fateful day at an antique shop,

we found

This beautiful 1870's sideboard

at a ridiculously low price.

We didn't get it

(We're famous for that -- not getting something and having to go back)

And once home, we figured out that it would work in the breakfast room

So a quick call, another trip, and home it came.

This spring, however, I have felt that the walls of the breakfast room were closing in

The plants, I thought.   The plants

For it is where we overwinter the citrus, the geraniums and the other assorted house plants

that summer outdoors.

However, as I would take my breakfast or afternoon tea

I would sit and stare

Mostly at the wall of glass that was really covered up.

How sad, I thought

But . . . what could I do with the sideboard?

And so I thought some more,

came up with a plan

And last week, I executed that plan

After the plants were moved outside!

I moved the sideboard . . .

not to another room 

But to the brick wall

Thus opening up the south wall of windows.

And the table which had been in the middle of the room

got moved next to those south windows!

And several weeks ago, I put two of the chairs in the basement.

Most of the time, it's just us -- when I have company, I can always

appropriate two chairs from the dining room

And if I need to, I can always bring the others up.

(Which means an occasional cleaning of the chairs rather than a weekly ones --

you know how chair legs attract cobwebs and dog hair!)

It seems more spacious

(But then the plants are outside now!)

And, of course, it is brighter,

And we can see the south garden

(in all of it's needy and weedy state!)

But then I felt that the table was too big!

Not too wide but too long -- it just didn't feel right!

I needed a smaller table

And a round table!

And os I brought in the wicker table from the front porch

And covered it with layered tablecloths

(Wicker and the black 1870s sideboard are too different, I think)

I think it fits the space better

And is perfect for a breakfast (or lunch or dinner) for two!

The sideboard looks good against the brick

(but anything looks good against brick!)

And I love the feel of the new space!

I am not a furniture mover

(well, maybe I'll move the living room chairs around but that's the extent of my

furniture moving!)

Unless a new piece requires some rearranging.

So I gave it some thought

Lots of thought

And I drew it out on the breakfast newspaper more than once.

And once the plants were out,

I made the move!

I think it is a perfect solution!

It's Monday and I'm sharing my new breakfast room with Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Met Monday and I'm joining Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday.