A kitchen is a room where an average family spends a lot of time, because it is not only a place for cooking and eating, but also the “heart” of a house where family members meet, talk about the joys and sorrows of the past day, meet the morning with a cup of coffee or tea. Of course, it is customary to select furniture for the kitchen very carefully. It should be durable, and comfortable, and beautiful, and easy to care for.
This applies to all furniture: tables, headsets and, of course, chairs. Kitchen chairs have a good “load”: they sit on them, often (especially if the family has children) spill or wake up something, it happens, they get up to get what they need from the upper shelves.
Nevertheless, few housewives will be satisfied only with the strength and comfort of chairs. They are in constant use, therefore they should be pleasing to the eye, be either unusual, or correspond to the latest fashion trends. In general, ordinary wooden or plastic chairs for the kitchen - the last century.
Today, designers offer a huge number of options where everyone can choose the right one for themselves. You should focus on your own taste, the needs of the family, as well as the style solution of the room.
How to choose?
Upholstered chairs are much more convenient, but their seats are pretty soon squeezed, deformed, which means they will need to be replaced. Rigid chairs are more durable, less prone to deformation, therefore, will last longer. Families with children are advised to opt for upholstery products that are easy to clean.
The choice should also be based on the size of the kitchen. For a large room, standard chairs in a set are suitable: four or six pieces (depending on the number of family members). As for small kitchens, folding copies or those that can be stacked one on top of the other will be the best option for them. They are perfectly stored on the loggia.
Models in which it is possible to adjust the height of both the seat and backrest are an ideal choice for children. As they grow, you can raise the chair. Things to avoid for families with children, especially small ones, are chairs equipped with castors. They can cause injuries.
If your kitchen is a place where it is customary to drink tea for a long time, talk slowly, take care, so that the seats are equipped with armrests. If all members of the family are busy, in the morning they drink a cup of coffee and run away all day, you do not need such elements.
It is advisable that your chairs are not too narrow, otherwise friends and relatives who are overweight may experience discomfort when they come to visit you.
Types of Chairs
There are a lot of options from which to make a choice. The kitchen seats include:
- classic chairs
- bar;
- stools (without back);
- armchairs;
- ottomans.
If your kitchen has a bar counter, it’s logical to purchase several chairs of the same name or stools. Have a large area? Then opt for chairs: wicker or upholstered with a soft, pleasant to the touch fabric. Wicker furniture also looks great in the summer kitchen of a country house.
If you live in an apartment with small rooms, a stool or a classic chair is an excellent choice, because they can be completely pushed under the table, thereby saving space. You should not think that designer chairs for the kitchen are a luxury available to owners of spacious apartments. On the contrary, currents such as minimalism and hi-tech, provide for the manufacture of furniture that does not have anything superfluous and does not take up a lot of space.
If you want puffs to stand in your kitchen, you should consider their height. Near the standard table, they may be low. In this case, they should be made according to individual design.
Material selection
What your chairs will be made of depends primarily on the overall style of the kitchen. If you like lightweight and functional plastic, classic wooden chairs will not create a harmonious ensemble with it. But if you adhere to the classics in everything, including in the home environment, then feel free to choose wood as the material for the manufacture of your furniture. The classics should not be considered boring - interesting solutions can also be found in it.
Deliberately rough painted wooden furniture (for example, in white) will decorate the kitchen, decided in style "Provence" or Scandinavian. And the model, upholstered in velor, fits perfectly into the interiorp in English or "baroque" style. Please note that plastic is much lighter than wood. Metal legs can lighten plastic furniture slightly. Wicker chairs are a bit heavier, but the most massive is wooden furniture.
Selection Details
Before you buy chairs in the kitchen, it is recommended to take certain actions.
- Check how strong their legs are. To do this, sit on a chair. The legs should maintain the position that they had originally.
- In metal chairs, the legs are most often cast. Their thickness should be significant so as not to deform under the weight of a person sitting on a chair.
- The smaller the kitchen, the better it looks transparent chairs. They make space easier.
- Rattan chairs are a compromise between heavy wood and lightweight plastic. If you do not want to buy heavy wooden furniture, while not wanting to use plastic, pay attention to this natural and lightweight material.
- The optimum seat depth is 40–45 cm, and the distance from the edge of the chair to the place where the leg bends at the knee joint is 2–8 cm.
Stylish solutions
Despite the fact that white chairs are considered classics of the "kitchen" genre, this does not mean that they cannot be truly original. For example, you can put around the kitchen table chairs made of the same material and the same color, but of a different design. It will look very fresh and unbroken. Due to the fact that all the chairs are plain, the appearance of completeness is maintained.
Metal models can be no less stylish - if they are not solid, but braided. Firstly, they are much lighter, and secondly, more maneuverable. In order to make it more comfortable to sit, you can supplement them with decorative pillows. Forged headboards with original twisted details are also beautiful. Seats decorated with eco-leather (easy-to-wash cloth) are great for these models.
If all family members have very different dimensions (height, weight), then it makes sense to order designer chairs in the same style, but in different sizes. Then everyone will have their own personal seat.
If the kitchen is designed in the style of "country" or "Provence", it requires textile decoration with one cloth: curtains, tablecloths, towels. It is possible to sew covers from chairs of the same fabric on chairs, they will become a good addition to the general style decision.
If you are a fan of pop art, it's nice to buy or order the same model of chairs in different colors, preferably bright. Such a set will be perfectly combined with the corresponding wall decoration in the same colors. A similar solution will effectively complement the avant-garde style kitchen.
Modern models of kitchen furniture suggest lightness and functionality. Heavy and non-maneuverable items - yesterday. The interiors in such fashionable styles as minimalism, loft, Scandinavian, are designed to ensure that they contain only the necessary items with such a property as multifunctionality.
No less popular is transformer furniture that can take various forms, depending on what the owner needs.
In the next video, you will find an overview of the Eames DSW Style chair.
