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Bar Stools Offer Comfort and Versatility

There are many benefits to using bar stools in your home. In particular, they are a very versatile form of seating with a number of uses and benefits over other kinds of seating. Despite being such extremely functional items, they are also a very pleasant and comfortable way to sit – particularly in more casual and laid-back situations.

Comfortable and Casual Seating

Kitchen stools make for comfortable seating. Some are built for greater comfort than others, but they frequently have features like padded seats and backrests, arm rests, and foot rests on the pedestal to allow comfortable seating for people of all builds at any height. This can afford great comfort even though people tend to perch rather than sit properly on the stools – a fact which makes them ideal for the casual, laid-back person who may or may not be sitting for any length of time.

Great for Entertaining

Bar stools are ideal when entertaining people. They provide practical extra seating at a time when you often just don't seem to have enough chairs to go around. Furthermore, if you are having a party of any real size food and drinks are likely to be available to guests in the kitchen. Some guests will like to hover around this area, getting regular nibbles or top-ups, and breakfast bar stools provides them with some useful, casual, readily-available places to sit.

Easy to Store

Breakfast bar stools have an advantage over most other types of chair in that they tend to be very easy to store. Even folding chairs need some dedicated place in which they must be kept, and will therefore eat into the space you have in your cupboard, loft, or spare room. Kitchen stools, on the other hand, can be slotted neatly beneath your breakfast bar. Depending on the exact type of stool you have and the height and shape of your breakfast bar, they will either slot underneath the surface completely and take up no extra room at all or require only a little floor space. This makes them ideal for smaller kitchens, and simply for generally storing the stools when not in use.

Fashionable Accessories

Kitchen bar stools are also versatile in the sense that they can be much more than just seating. Unlike most other kinds of chair, they are usually designed with aesthetics in mind and boast fetching, fashionable designs. They may be traditional or contemporary, subtle or bold, but the majority of stools are eye-catching and able to play a real, solid role in the décor of a setting. This means that they can enhance the overall look of your kitchen and even form something of a minor centrepiece, where other chairs would be purely functional items just adding to the clutter of your home in the name of practicality.

Choosing the Perfect Colour of Bar Stools for Your Kitchen

Breakfast bar stools are the ideal seating solution for many homes and kitchens. They can serve your home not just as a functional item of furniture but as part of the décor, enhancing the overall effect of your kitchen's design.

However, choosing the right stools for your own, unique home and kitchen can be a challenge. In particular, it is hard to determine exactly which colour and style you could choose to create the greatest, most impactful visual and aesthetic effect. . . . Read more

Spice up Your Kitchen With Wooden Bar Stools

Breakfast bar stools can be a fantastic addition to your kitchen. Wooden bar stools, in particular, can be a real asset for kitchens that have been decorated in either contemporary or traditional styles.

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Bar Stools in Common Rooms in Your Workplace

Breakfast bar stools are becoming increasingly popular in homes throughout the UK and the world. They are also becoming more and more popular among businesses. You might think this only applies to hospitality businesses – specifically pubs, clubs, restaurants and places like that which offer seating at a drinks bar for their customers. In fact, bar stools are proving useful for all kinds of businesses, mainly for the use of staff in common rooms and other communal areas. Some places where stools can prove very useful in the workplace include:

The Staff Canteen

The staff canteen is unlikely to offer a bar (though there are probably times when everyone wishes that it did). However, this is still a prime example of a space that can benefit from using breakfast bar stools to offer extra seating to staff.

When midday rolls around, there will be a solid hour or two in which the canteen gets crowded because everyone is going for lunch. This can put a lot of pressure on seating, and make it hard for staff to find a space. Bar seating can be used as a space-efficient way to provide extra seats, often around the periphery of the room or bordering on spaces that are partially taken up by other features.

Staff Rooms

Even customer-facing business premises have a staff room for employees to retreat to when they need a breather. When staff go on breaks and retreat into this sacred space, the goal is normally relaxation. Meeting the needs of customers (who are always right even when they are wrong) can get hectic and be very tiring. The chance to relax and recuperate for even a few minutes is not only extremely pleasant for staff, but also a vital way to help them recover from the stresses of the workday and get back to peak performance by the time they go back out.

Bar stools are perfect for this kind of brief break from an on-the-go job. They are a very laid-back, relaxed form of seating. They are comfortable enough for a full hour-long lunch break and casual enough to perch on for a quick few minutes of breathing room. They also contribute to a generally relaxed, friendly atmosphere that is the ideal place for staff to escape the bustle for a few minutes. In short, they are the ideal form of seating for use in a staff room.

Communal Areas

Even workplaces that don't offer a staff room per se will probably have some sort of communal leisure area for staff on their breaks. These can serve a similar purpose to staff rooms in the more conventional sense, but they can also be very different. They might just be a small corner of the office not really cordoned off in any serious way. Alternatively, they might be fully-equipped leisure rooms complete with some entertainment facilities to help staff relax on their break.

Much like traditional staff rooms, however, they can benefit from breakfast bar stools. These are a casual, accessible form of seating that staff might enjoy perching on. They are the perfect fit for the laid-back atmosphere of a full-on leisure room, and help to create a more relaxed atmosphere in spaces that may otherwise feel like just another part of the office.

Wooden Office Chairs: Are They Still in Fashion?

Once upon a time, wood was the main material of office chairs. In fact, combined with padded leather and the odd bit of metal here and there, it was the king of office seating materials. It has since been supplanted by cheap, durable and lightweight plastics, often in combination with aluminium (which has become much more economical to work with over the years). However, there is still a place for wood in the world of workplace seating.

The Heyday of Wooden Office Chairs

There is something undeniably beautiful about a chair made of polished wood, complete with padded leather seat and perhaps some brass or chrome accents. However, their heyday was born not of beauty but necessity. Wood was the main material for a lot of things. As certain metals were more difficult or expensive to work with and high-quality plastics could not yet be produced. Wood dominated the office seating industry because it was far and away the most practical material. Looking at those office chairs through modern eyes they seem beautiful and even luxurious, but not always contemporary.

Wooden office chairs may have fallen out of favour entirely when sufficiently good-quality plastics started to be cheaply mass-produced if the reasons for using wood had only been the lack of other suitable materials. However, wood is also a practical, high-quality and aesthetically pleasing material. Even with competition from new, more modern seating solutions, wood has managed to stay in fashion and, now we've had a few decades to get over the novelty of plastic, even regain some of the popularity it lost.

Contemporary Office Chairs

Wooden office seating solutions have not only failed to drop out of fashion, but also continued moving with the times. The classic wooden chairs that we were talking about before are still being produced, but there are also some very different, much more modern options to choose from as well.

Today, employees might sit at their desks with the support of a wooden chair that is entirely contemporary in design and could never be mistaken for an antique.  As well as a wooden construction, these borrow the comfort of leather or faux leather padded seats from their ancestors. However, they boast curved, modern designs that use the latest fashions as well as up-to-date principles of ergonomics. The result is a chair that uses classic materials but could only truly be at home in a modern office.

Classic Wooden Office Seating

Even the wooden office chair designs of yesteryear still have a place in the fashions of today. These chairs are still being produced, little-changed from the pre-plastic days simply because the design was never broken and doesn't need any fixing. In an age when people don't just obsess about the latest fashions but appreciate the best bits of "retro" and "vintage," they have once again come into their own.

These are the ideal office chairs for more classic, retro-styled offices. However, this isn't their only natural habitat. Wood-and-leather chairs have a much more luxurious, premium feel than many of their plastic counterparts, and this makes them truly ideal as executive seating.

A Kitchen Stool May Be The Right Choice For A Savvy Kitchen

It is surprising how much kitchen stools can do to transform your kitchen. If you have a disused breakfast bar, or simply want to replace some tired old bar stools with nice new ones, this may well prove to be a worthwhile investment. It can make more difference than you might think to the style and look of your kitchen, and even to the way that you and your family use it on a day-to-day basis.

Aesthetics

Bar stools are stylish items. They have the potential to not only be an extra place to sit in your kitchen, but also an integral part of the way you decorate it. More than most kinds of furniture, the majority of bar stools have been designed to have a distinctive style and to fit into a particular environment. Some are retro-cool, some are traditional, and some are utterly modern. In all cases, they have the potential to form an attractive centrepiece in your kitchen which complements the way that the rest of the room looks. Choose kitchen stools in a style that fits nicely into the rest of your kitchen, and you will likely find that it does a lot to enhance the overall look and feel. This helps to ensure a pleasant, interesting and stylish environment in what is undoubtedly one of the most important rooms in a home. This is good news for you and those who live with you, who will have a nice kitchen environment in which to spend their time, and can also help to make a good impression on any visitors to your home.

Functionality

Bar stools are different from most other places to sit – when you really think about it, more different than you might realise. Good-quality stools are comfortable places to sit, and also very laid-back. Unlike the very formal sit-down of dining chairs, kitchen stools offer more of a casual (yet surprisingly comfortable) perch. This often makes people contending with busy modern lifestyles more willing to sit and have meals in the kitchen with one or more other family members. It also makes family members, especially lesser-spotted teenagers who usually spend a lot of time in their rooms, more inclined to casually hang around before scurrying off again after raiding the kitchen cupboards or the fridge for a snack or while simply passing through. The result is that the kitchen gets used a lot more by more members of your family. It could become a sort of social centre of the home, encouraging busy family members to take more of their free moments hanging around casually together in one of the house's most commonly-used communal rooms.

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