ARTICLE 1 Bar Stool Seating (2) (3)

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LIVING SPACES ARTICLES
Interior Design Decorating Ideas

Design Elements
Choosing Furniture
Home Lighting
Kitchen Lighting

Stool Seating is more popular than ever. Convenience and space efficiency makes a terrific fit with Interior Design and decorating.

WORLD'S LARGEST SELECTION
Residential and Commercial Bar Stools

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GUIDELINES
EFFECTIVE SHOPPING, FIT AND PURCHASING

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Home Living Style Local availability and selection can be challenging with retailers often overlooking this important market. Next is the confusion about bar height? or counter height stools? There are even tall stools - yes higher than bar height! Then how much clearance space is required between seating?

Getting the criteria straight makes accurate selection and buying of barstools easy.

SEATING ERGONOMICS
Fitting Your Use and Your Space

Furniture should fit the Living Spaces spatially and the design, fitting also seating ergonomics. So what’s with the fancy word?!

Avoid disparity between style, seating arrangement and seating ergonomics. Ergonomics is the study of making the things we use fit us in the space we use them. It combines knowledge of physiology and anatomy to design efficient and comfortable use. The way we place furniture affects our use of it and how it ‘fits’ us.

Selecting and buying for fit is far easier than buying chairs because bar stool seats do not have much seating depth. Also the seat height isn’t relative to leg length but to counter or bar height. Primary ergonomic guidelines for choosing seating refers to elbowroom, seat height and depth fitting the individual.

SELECTING AND BUYING
1) allow adequate space for width - body and elbowroom (30" - 36" center to center)
2)Know the height you need
3)Backless or with a back stool?
4)Arms Or Not? Measure arm height and check for any obstructions in turning against the counter.

Ergonomics gets far more complex, considering lumbar fit, spinal curvature, etc. but this not really applicable to the simpler ergonomics of stools. Enough said.

SEAT HEIGHT

Kitchen Islands 3-light Getting clear about correct heights. It is the seat height that is important to fit to the bar or counter, not the back stool height.

While heights are generally standard, there are exceptions because not all manufacturers create equal heights. Unfortunately they don't always take into account a padded seat, putting it atop an already standard frame, which then adds to the standard height.

Milford Rose Barstool In addition you will find standard heights vary a few inches either way. So know your counter or bar height and the stool height that will fit it

* Counter Height Bar Stools – Counter Stools - 24 inches floor to seat top, fitting the standard counter height of 36 inches.

* Bar Height Stools – Bar Stools – 30 inches high, floor to seat top – fits 42 inch bar. A tall stool, higher than this is uncommon and not ergonomically functional - unless you're very tall - and not easily found.

* Chair Height – 18 inches fits average table height of 29 - 30 inches

Some elemental facts: Notice the graduating increase is 6 inches between each standard height respectively of the stools and also tables. The difference between stool height and table height is 12 inches.

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