Industrial Breakfast Nook with Black Pipe Shelves

Wall shelves above a breakfast table put everything for the morning within arm’s reach, and pipe-and-plank brackets give them an industrial edge. Keep the lower shelf at least eighteen inches above the tabletop so elbows and heads clear it, and style it with things you actually use: mugs, cereal and oats in clear jars, a teapot. The top shelf can hold the decorative pieces and a hardy plant. Limit the materials to black iron, raw wood, glass and white enamel, and even a full shelf looks intentional. Anchor the brackets into studs, since loaded shelves get heavy fast.