“The breakfast nook was one of those spaces that had so much potential but never felt intentional,” Carmen Murphy shares. Carmen and her boyfriend had moved in together two years ago and had been slowly transforming their apartment.But the couple never really did anything with this space — besides accidentally making it a catchall — because “it’s oddly shaped and in front of the bedroom door.

Here’s a home renovation you don’t hear about every day: turning a bedroom into a kitchen, and vice versa. But several months ago, Emma Shoemaker (@shoemakesnew) decided to do exactly that, swapping her kitchen and her 4-year-old son Theo’s bedroom.