In our view this is the key to choosing the correct bar stool. Ideally when you sit at your bar you need enough room for your legs and a nice gap above. This way you should be at a similar posture as to when you sit at a table with a chair. In a kitchen environment, you could have 3 different scenarios. The most common scenario is that you wish to sit at you kitchen work surface, which is the same height as your kitchen sink. 99% of all work surfaces have a height from the floor to the underside of the work surface of approx 90cm. When this is the case we suggest a seat height of approx 65-68cm.
Another scenario is that you have a purpose made bar in your kitchen. These bars tend to be higher than the normal worksurface. So following the same rules as above you need about 22-25cm of gap below the under side of the bar.
One fashion at present the kitchen designers are tending to use, is to have your normal work surface and then extending from the worksurface uprights with an addition glass surface above. Once again please use the same calculation as mentioned above, minus 22-25cm for your legs
So the question is ... what bar stool should you choose?
You will notice that the majority of barstools we stock are gas lift. The reason being, is that its suites most heights encountered within the home kitchen situation, as well as being very fashionable. We also stock other fixed height stools, for those who wish a stool to be of a more traditional design.
If you are still have some more questions, then please telephone us and we can talk you through the kitchen stools.
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