Wooden Bar Stools

Perk Up Your Open Kitchen Counter Height Bar Stools

With nice wooden counter height bar stools, you can turn your kitchen counter into a real utilitarian part of your house. If you’ve been inside an American house with its kitchen open to the dining area and the living room, you must notice a lot of tall counters that serve as faux division between kitchen and living room or dining room. Some of them are actually bar height tables (around 40-42 inches with seats of usually 30 inches). Counter tables are usually around 36 inches and seats are between 22-24 inches). Most of the time, they are unused (spotless because of lack of use) or used for the wrong reasons (overflowing with papers and other odds and ends for the kitchen). It is such a big waste. Kitchen counter tops are good breakfast place, it is casual and less intimidating and certainly easier to clean than the big dining table. And it can also be a good place for kids to hang out while Mom is busy in the kitchen.

To bring back the kitchen counter to its original use, it is important to have the right counter height bar stools to go with it. Nowadays there are hundreds of selection available to choose from that can fit any kitchen style. There are backless counter bar stools, there are swivel stools with thousands of available designs for the back, there are adjustable stools. Like with buying any form of furniture, the most important question to ask yourself is how often and how much do you intend to use your furniture. Putting the barstool in the family routine means every day, which means you need to consider wear and tear that can be cause by the constant climbing, bumping, rubbing that the stools will experience. It also means that the stool has to be the type that can be easily mounted, moved and cleaned.

Metal stools are usually heavy and does not look as natural as wood but wood can get more wear and tear especially if you have kids and can also get damaged more easily by heat, sunlight and humidity. It all depends on how you want your kitchen counter to feel. Whether you want leather or cloth seats depends on preference as they both provide disadvantages and advantages when the seat is used often.

Leather is of course more durable, lasts longer and easier to clean (for one, it does not absorb water as quickly as the cloth so you have time to wipe off spills). It ages better than cloth upholstery, but many people like the feel of fabric better, especially if the ambiance aimed for is warm and cozy. Of course, you have to make sure that the kitchen counter top is always empty of knick knacks except maybe for a cookie jar or an antique box to hold your flavored tea. The worst thing you can do is to buy quality counter height bar stools and leave no space to actually use it on.