Practical, comfortable and cute, a built-in seat for the dining room is otherwise known as a banquette. Often used in restaurants and nearly always in caravans, banquettes are a cosy retro ...

In New York City apartments, dining rooms are as rare and coveted as banquettes are in restaurants ... niche in the open-plan kitchen and living room into a discrete area, her first step was ...

Merrill designed a U-shaped banquette beside the kitchen as the family’s main dining space, freeing up the old formal dining room for other purposes. Image In one home, Ms. Merrill added a large ...

If you’re short on space but need to build a dining area, a custom banquette could be the solution ... Another spacing issue is making room for an angled seat back. For a chair to be comfortable ...

Banquette seating isn’t new to the design world, but it’s grown in popularity for Aussie homeowners. Here’s how to add a ...

“We love to use banquettes to save space on dining tables as many of our clients opt out of the full-blown formality of dining rooms for a dining table in the living room or great roo ...

“A typical dining arrangement requires at least that much space for chairs to be pushed back from the table. You need room for access, serving and clearing.” Moreover, banquettes can be ...

Utilising the corner of the room and installing a custom banquette was a smart use of space for the family of four, with the ...