When I wrote my 2026 Master List of Home Goals post last week, I didn’t include recent pictures of the breakfast room because Matt and I had been using that room as our temporary bedroom for over a year while I worked on our master bedroom suite all last year. Even after we moved into our new bedroom last week, the adjustable bed base was still in the breakfast room. So with a ton of help from my mom, we got the bed moved out and put back together as a sitting room, which is how the room was being used before we made it our temporary bedroom.
I’m so glad to have this room back in usable condition again, but it’s far from where it was before being turned into our temporary bedroom. While finishing other areas, I’ve shopped our house for items that would work in those other areas, and most of those items came from the breakfast room. So now this room is looking a bit bare. Here’s what it looked like before…
And here’s what the other side of the room looked like…
The artwork above the benches was the first thing I “shopped” for my closet, and those now hang above my washer and dryer.
And as you can see from the above pictures, the curtains from the breakfast/sitting room are now in my closet as well.
I reupholstered and painted one of the benches for our bedroom suite foyer. (This isn’t where the bench ended up, but this picture shows the bench better than the most recent pictures.)
And I even took the plant and the orange and cream throws for our bedroom suite. So after all of that, this is what the breakfast room looks like now. The gallery wall with the TV is the only thing that hasn’t changed…
But the rest is looking a little sad and bare right now.
But this is the wall that needs the most attention. My cord covers have fallen off the wall, and now there are no benches or anything else to hide them.
And this wall is in desperate need of COLOR!
And I’ve finally decided what I want to do. I want to buy or build two matching sideboards to go on those walls. I highly doubt that they’ll be natural wood, but I couldn’t find what I want, so I just used these for the mockup. I kind of have my heart set on green sideboards. Now that I’ve used green pretty prominently in the bedroom, I’m kind of on a green kick. And then above them, I want to use my spoon pinwheel art on one side, and then I want to make another coordinating piece of artwork out of the same thing (wood spoons) but in a different pattern for the other side. My spoon pinwheel artwork is probably my favorite piece of art I’ve ever made, and I don’t think it’s current placement in the living room is the best place for it. I think this will be much better.
UPDATE: I found a green sideboard that will work for the purpose of illustrating my vision, but this isn’t quite the right color or style that I want.
Since I hope to turn this room back into a breakfast room with a dining table and chairs by the end of this year, it just makes sense to have sideboards there instead of benches. Those benches never got used like I thought they would.
And then, of course, I’ll be on the lookout for the perfect fabric for these windows…
This time, I’ll make them properly. The last ones were only one width of fabric for each curtain panel. They’re perfect for my closet window, but they were actually way too skimpy for such a large window area in this room. So I’ll double up on fabric this time. And I think I also want to look for a patterned fabric — something bold, colorful, and fun. I haven’t even started my search for fabric yet, but I have a vision in my mind of what I’m looking for. Of course, when I start a search already knowing what I’m looking for, that often makes it much more difficult to find the right fabric. But I’m not in a rush. I can take my time with this and get it right.
When the time comes to turn this room into an actual dining area, I’ll also be swapping out the light fixture. This light fixture is fine for a sitting room, but I’ll want a chandelier of some sort to go above a dining table. But again, I have plenty of time to find just the right light fixture for the room. Before any of that can happen, I’ll need to find a place for Matt’s recliner where he can spend a few hours each day sitting comfortably while watching TV. I have no idea where that can go, so until I figure that out, this room needs to stay a sitting room. But I’m highly motivated to figure it out because I want my dining area back! 😀
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Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
