What should we do with this room?
So we just moved into our new house a week ago. This room is a little nook room off the lounge room. There is a separate dining room where we have our dining table so looking for different ideas for this room from you all. The previous owners had it set up with a buffet table on the left wall with a nice wallprint and a nice reading chair in the opposite corner with a large pot plant. The only problem with having a nice chair in here is we have 2 cats. One of which will tear a nice chair like that to shreds so what‘s some alternatives? We don’t really want to put a desk there. Here’s a pic of the room now and what it looked like before (I love what they did before with it but the chair/scratch post idea doesnt work lol)
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me me
5 years agocuddlz88
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siriuskey
5 years ago
julie herbert
5 years agoHi cuddlz88, maybe try and find a timber chair to go with your beautiful light fitting as me me suggested, a fab side board , great art, gorgeous lamp and big plant. Our cat used to scratch our chairs so I put double sided tape on them for a week, she has stopped as she didn’t like the stickiness.
bigreader
5 years ago
Emma
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Jenny West
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Jo M
5 years ago
cloudpants
5 years agoLooks like a beautiful home. Congratulations on your purchase.
Those amazing beams are screaming out for a hanging cane egg chair! Hard for cats to ruin cushions than a fabric chair. Then of course you would add your own art, sideboard etc to the room as per previous owner.
julie herbert
5 years agoHave found this wonderful woven cabinet from IKEA would look stunning in your beautiful room, team it up with woven chairs from Kmart ( they have copied some great design pieces)gorgeous cushions, artwork , plants and it could look gorgeous.
siriuskey
5 years ago
Kate
5 years agocuddlz88
5 years agoThe house already has a separate dining/meals area so we want to keep this little space separate or a different purpose as we don’t need 2 dining rooms. I’m thinking how the previous people did it is the way I’m leaning towards but I love to hear all your suggestions :) this is the other dining area that comes off the kitchen
julie herbert
5 years agosiriuskey
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5 years agoAnne Monsour
5 years agoHi, Maybe you could do something similar to this but with couch ( leather ) on the left and bookcases on the right . Table for hobbies or laptop . Set up music system .
bellacatandme
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agocuddlz88
5 years agoI bought some artificial plants for the area (want to get a tall one for the corner too) and I’m considering this wall art. What do you think? Furniture still working on as need to save up some money
julie herbert
5 years agobigreader
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5 years agocuddlz88
5 years agoI ended up ordering this artwork for the wall :) need to get a buffet table and chair still
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