Decorating Bees, I need your help. We don’t know what to do with the breakfast nook in our kitchen. We have a formal dining room and an eat in kitchen. We only have one table and it is in the dining room. We have a small kids table in the eat in kitchen - primarily to keep from knocking into the light fixture but the kids like to eat breakfast and lunch in there. We don’t have a lot of money to spend and I just can’t commit to any of the tables we’ve seen. We started thinking outside the box last night and my husband wondered if we can turn it into a sitting area. He thinks we don’t really need a table in there when all family meals are at the dining room table. I think those corner banquet bench seats are cool but with the railing on the left that opens into the family room and the sliding glass doors - it doesn’t seem possible. The dining room is just right around the corner - you can see the dining room from the eat in kitchen so my husband things 2 tables will just look weird.

So, here is what I am thinking. Get 2 or 3 bar stools for the kids (they are 5 & 2 1/2) to eat at the kitchen counter in the morning. Buy a cool coffee table (we love zinc tables) and a small loveseat or a couple comfy chairs and possibly a rug and get rid of the black ceiling fixture.
Kind of like these:
http://www.houzz.com/photos/kitchen/sitting-area-
http://www.blulabelbungalow.com/2009/12/styling-kitchen-sitting-area.html

Are we nuts? Does anyone have any other ideas?