Ideas + Advice: How to create the perfect nook.

Nook Design Basics

For a nook design to succeed, it has to highlight its limited confines and possibly unusual structure without feeling claustrophobic. It should be comfortable, functional and charming.

Reading Nook

For yourself, your children or both, a tucked-away reading nook is the unexpected and private space that makes reading even more fun. It can be in a corner of the living room, hidden under a staircase or anywhere someone can sneak away to get a little quiet time.

Home Office Nook

Not everyone can have an entire room dedicated to a home office. Fortunately, all that most people need is a nook to create a perfectly functional workspace. You can take over a corner of the bedroom or transform an unused coat closet by adding a work surface, ergonomic seating, storage and task lighting.

Breakfast Nook

A breakfast nook is a traditional architectural element designed for quick and convenient dining right in the kitchen. With today's more open floorplans, dining spaces have taken over the space where breakfast nooks used to be. But that doesn't mean you can't still create a space dedicated to the most important meal of the day.

Mini Pendant Lighting

Over most kitchen islands or bars, having a series of standard 8- or 10-inch pendant lights will overwhelm the kitchen's "skyline." That's where mini pendants can come to the rescue. Mini pendant lights offer enough task lighting for meal prep and other kitchen duties.

Linear Suspension & Multi-Light Pendant Lighting

Both linear suspension and multi-light pendants can hang beautifully over kitchen islands or over rectangular dining tables. They work best in kitchens that are spacious enough to handle a fixture with more length and presence.

Drum Pendant Lighting

Instead of mini pendants, consider placing 2 or 3 drum pendant lamps over a kitchen island. Drum pendants and drum-shaped chandeliers are not the first thing that comes to mind for kitchens, but they can offer a beautiful touch of elegance—elevating the charm and warmth of your kitchen when entertaining guests.

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