Custom Banquettes &
Breakfast Nooks in PA

Restaurants figured this out a century ago: people prefer the bench. A banquette turns a kitchen corner or a bay window into the most-used seat in the house, breakfast, homework, long conversations that outlast the coffee. And because a bench seats more people in less depth than chairs, it often adds a genuine dining spot to a kitchen that ‘didn’t have room for one.’

The internet is full of DIY banquette builds for a reason, everyone wants one, but a bench you sit in every day is furniture, not framing. Ours are built in the shop like our cabinetry: solid hardwood faces, plywood cores, sprayed conversion varnish, storage drawers or lift seats underneath, and proper seating geometry so it is actually comfortable without cushions doing all the work.

Banquettes pair naturally with the projects around them, a custom island, dining room built-ins, or a window-seat bookcase run.

Under-bench volume is some of the best storage real estate in a kitchen. We build it three ways: deep drawers on full-extension slides (the best access, our usual recommendation), lift-seat compartments (maximum volume, good for seasonal items), and end-access cubbies for baskets and dog supplies. The bench carcass is plywood like our cabinet boxes, sturdy enough to jump on, because children will.