Hello to Our New Kitchen Chairs

I know the topic of kitchen chairs isn’t terribly thrilling. I’m just so excited I have to share… In an unrelated note: the best part of my kitchen is the freaking awesome art I commissioned from our five year old. To see THAT please scroll down.

For over a decade we’ve been making do, sitting each day at the kitchen table on rickety wooden folding chairs that my parents generously passed on to us. Did you catch that? A DECADE! My butt hurts just thinking about it.

Hello to our new kitchen chairs

We’ve been meaning to get new chairs for a while now. The catch being that they’re crazy expensive.

(I’ve been talking about buying secondhand, mismatched sturdy wooden chairs and painting them a single color since moving to California seven years ago, but has that happened? No! I have too many other projects I’d rather tackle… so back to our quest to buy new chairs.)

The chairs David and I both liked were waaaaay beyond our budget (at $250 each). These metal chairs were comfortable too, but were also pricey.

Hello to our new kitchen chairs

Then we found these less expensive metal beauties that are similar in size to the folding chairs we already own (so we knew they’d fit at our kitchen table). Plus they’re really sturdy. I’m not going to lie: the fact that they won’t fold up on our guests sitting on them was a major selling point.

We ordered four originally and love them so much we ordered two more.

Chic, metal, comfortable, and ours.

Hello to our new kitchen chairs

Goodbye, rickety folding chairs. We’ll see you at Thanksgiving. Or the next time we have lots of friends over. Finally we can use them occasionally, instead of every day, just as they should be used.

Our meals just got so much more (safe and) comfortable.

The kids are sitting in their Stokke Tripp Trapp Highchairs that we LOVE and generously received as gifts from friends.

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