A Guide to Dining Room Seating

 

Quality time around the table with family and friends is an amazing thing. Everyone there is important to us. They're unique and bring their own style and perspective. Why should the actual seating be any different?

When buying a dining set, conventional wisdom suggests we get the chairs that come with the table. There's nothing wrong with that, to be sure, since they're designed to match for a perfectly cohesive look. We'll call this the "follow the recipe" approach.

There's also an entirely different way to go about it. You can get a dining chair simply because you like the way it looks or feels. It can match the table or not—that just depends on how eclectic you want your space to be. If you do want a thread of consistency, make sure each chair has one similar quality to the others or to the table itself. That way, the theme is there with plenty of wiggle room for your wandering taste. Let's call this the "recipe's a suggestion" approach. Learn how to expertly mix and match dining chairs.