9 banquette ideas to steal from high-end kitchens

A custom corner booth with orange hides is framed by “Galileo Glass� wallpaper from Brooklyn-based design studio Eskayel inside Jerome Dahan’s Santa Monica home.

From the banquette inside the sun-filled first-floor home of David Golubchik and Rina Welles, the outdoors is always present.

A view of the backyard and swimming pool from the Santa Monica kitchen of David Golubchik and Rina Welles.

Architect Don Dimster designed a 12-foot-long upholstered bench in this Venice duplex with a built-in end bookcase as a place to sit, work or linger over a breakfast coffee. Part of the white-oak plank table can rise to bar height when Dimster — pictured with wife Lisa, left, and sister-in-law Noreen, right — wants to entertain.

Instead of a separate dining room, an L-shaped upholstered banquette lies at one end of the La Canada Flintridge living room of Denise and Don Hahn, forming a cozy booth that seats eight. “After all, we love getting the nice booth in the restaurant,� Denise says. “Now we get it every night.�

Lyndall Hobbs added a breakfast banquette and TV nook off her kitchen at one end of her Hollywood Hills home and opened the living room in the middle.

A sophisticated new banquette, paired with a marble-topped Saarinen table and vintage H.W. Klein Rosewood dining chairs, adds a distinctly modern feel to the kitchen of this Edward Fickett home in Nichols Canyon.

Intricate Japanese joints in kitchen table chairs and table base made by German woodworker Stefan Fabry, for the Marina Del Rey home of Alan Pomerantz, back.