Welcome back to our final Holiday Guest of the season! Our amazing guest today has a beautiful project to show you… she took out a wall in her dining room area and added in a table, but it’s bar-height on one side, table height on the other, and built on top of the remaining half wall. She calls it a “barble” and we couldn’t decide if we should call it a breakfast bar, or a built-in table, or just a rockin’ AWESOME place to dine… what would you call it?!?
Read below for all the details from Kammy, and if you’re looking for other built-in table or breakfast bar ideas, we found a few more we love, too:
1: Table as island extension via Southern Living
2: Desk into table by Handy Father
3: Industrial live edge bar via LA Times
4: Half wall breakfast bar by My Fifties Kitchen Redo
Here’s Kammy with all the details of her breakfast bar table… barble.. beautiful whatever you want to call it!
(And don’t miss the other amazing projects she’s doing in her house, too!)
DIY Built-in Breakfast Bar Dining Table
by Kammy from Kammy’s Korner


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Check out all of the exterior updates it took to get it’s present state (click here.) |
So today I’m going to talk to you about our “barble”. What the heck is a “barble”? Someone recently told me they thought they had an extensive vocabulary and couldn’t believe they had never heard the word. Well folks, that is because it is totally made up. It was born out of trying to describe the vision in my head to my husband and dad, who would be wielding the hammers. My hubby is an electrical engineer. He says my ideas aren’t logical and make no sense to him. I wanted a kitchen bar…. but a table. A permanent table that sat on the wall. But we’d have to tear down half the wall of course… to table height… so in combining the words “bar” and “table” you get “barble”. The table top is also made out of boards from the old barn floor, so I guess the “bar” could also be for “barn”. Now if I haven’t confused you enough, let’s just get started with some photos.




There were years and years of old manure and dirt on those floor boards. But nothing a whole lot of sanding and polyurethane can’t take care of! Up came two of those big planks!


After collecting them all, we measured and cut each board to be 102 inches. We quiet often have extra people around our table so I wanted it big!





The rustic ship lap wall you see is original. We did not know it was there when we started taking off old paneling, plaster, and other layers, but were so pleasantly surprised to uncover it!

Here is the final result! As you can see, there are benches on one side and barstools on the other because the sunroom is a sunken room. There is a step on the end of the table in the doorway, which has surprised more than one person. I may need to invest in some yellow caution tape to avoid a lawsuit!








Kammy, your transformation is amazing! Can’t wait to see what you do next in that beautiful home of yours!!
Remodelaholics, hustle over to Kammy’s Korner to see more — start with her home tour (and the kids reading area) and don’t miss seeing how she painted her bathtub (inside AND out!)
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Great transformation Kammy I love it and thanks for the tip on filling in gouges in old wood. I’d love to make over our counter tops with wood cladding but I don’t want to have to deal with all the crud that gathers in the holes so this was a timely tip for me – Yay! You have a beautifully transformed home. So glad I found your blog today. Seasons greetings and Happy New Year from Paint It White in Ireland:-)
Isn’t Kammy amazing?? Thanks for stopping by, Marie!
Thank you, Paint It White! The wood filler idea was a combination of my brain and my mom’s. It worked GREAT! 🙂 Good luck on your counter tops. I’m sure they’ll be awesome. Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year to you as well!
Incredibly gorgeous and useful. I love everything about it! When can I move in? I’ll be your live in cleaning lady! ???? Happy New Year to everyone.
Live in cleaning lady? Sounds like a plan to me!! 🙂 Thanks for the sweet comment, Hope!
And what about the dark beam running across the ceiling. Did you remove the old lumber and put that there? Or is it a facade around the existing lumber? It looks great, I just want to know what you did there. Also, are you sure that it is structurally sound to take out all of those studs?
Looks beautiful. Thanks for documenting.
Hi Eric! It is a Styrofoam beam that we hollowed out to fit around the existing beam. It’s a little complicated, but they did have do some resupporting to make it structurally sound. The ceiling has about a 10 inch gap between it and the upstairs floor, so it was not the “norm”. Sorry for the delayed response!!
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Just what I would like to do!!! Thanks for the post, helped me explain my thoughts to my husband 🙂
Hey, thank you for recommending my DIY recycling an old door into a new desk project. It works great for a breakfast bar!
I like your use of white space and lots of images on your blog!
Thanks, Curtis! Love your desk!
Love it! Where did you get the sage green and turquoise curtains? Thanks!
My mother actually made them from fabric we found at Joann’s. 🙂
great blog! Where are those barstools from?
I have a question! I’m doing the same thing to my house, but I’m wondering how you made the bottom half level enough to put Down the countertop? mine is a bit wider so I can do storage underneath.
I have the same question! We are in the middle of a kitchen renovation and what I thought would be an easy project has become more difficult. Also, I’m worried about the stability of the half wall. Did you do anything extra to stabilize it? Thanks!
Did you have any luck answering this question? I have the same question with regards to the wall stability.
I was wondering what color you painted your kitchen in the picture above.