Home Nesting Update: Dining Nook

Yesterday, I finally made it out to IKEA and picked up a couple of needed items to complete some home projects. So, today I've been doing some much needed nesting! Jon and I live in an apartment and don't currently have an official dining space. When we aren't using the couch ottoman or the bar counter, we use this cute little fold out table up against a small wall as our "dining room". I've been wanting to display some of my vintage dinnerware and wedding gift pieces for awhile now. I didn't really think I'd have the room to do that until we got a larger living room space when we move into a home someday...but THEN, I came up with a super inexpensive and fun solution to make our little dining room nook have it's own apartment-sized display.

All I did was buy three floating shelves from IKEA at $8.00 a piece and had husby hang them right above our little fold out table...and here are the results!

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Just to orient you a little, the living room TV is exactly to the right of the little office nook and the kitchen is exactly to the left of the little table. 

I'm super happy with how everything came together and how just adding these shelves really designated what was not intended to be a dining space to it's own little cozy area. Also, see the little fold out table I was mentioning above? Best piece of furniture Jon and I have bought so far. The front flap folds down to give you just a thin wall table and if we have more guests, we can lift up the other flap on the other side so it goes from sitting two comfortably to sitting 4-5, plus there are six little storage drawers that are amazing for organizing. PLUS, when we move into a home at some point, we can use this table in my studio. So versatile. Ok, I'm done with my sales pitch. But seriously. :)

Been working on any nesting projects lately?