Metal chairs for the kitchen

Met­al kitchen chairs are increas­ing­ly replac­ing wood­en fur­ni­ture — they are afford­able, easy to clean, strong and durable. And numer­ous mod­els, made using dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als for the backs and seats, amaze with the vari­ety of even the most demand­ing con­sumers.

What should be a kitchen chair

Chairs in the kitchen are used less fre­quent­ly than stools, but this does not exclude the con­ve­nience of their use. The cost of wood­en prod­ucts makes res­i­dents of hous­es and apart­ments opt for more afford­able options.

The main require­ment for fur­ni­ture in the kitchen is prac­ti­cal­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty. A chair on a met­al frame for the kitchen is con­sid­ered the most durable prod­uct in terms of oper­a­tion and main­te­nance. In its man­u­fac­ture, leather sub­sti­tute and plas­tic are most often used, and these mate­ri­als serve for a long time and are easy to clean.

Benefits of metal base chairs

No mat­ter how man­u­fac­tur­ers pro­tect wood­en fur­ni­ture, over time it begins to absorb mois­ture from the envi­ron­ment, which leads to the unus­abil­i­ty of the prod­uct. Wood needs con­stant care. Get­ting rid of grease and stains on it is dif­fi­cult.

For this rea­son, chairs on an iron frame began to gain pop­u­lar­i­ty. The met­al is weld­ed and pol­ished dur­ing pro­duc­tion. Mount­ing riv­ets may be used. Such a base can with­stand a lot of weight, and the chrome nick­el coat­ing not only gives the prod­uct a beau­ti­ful appear­ance, but also pro­tects against cor­ro­sion.

Unlike wood, met­al is easy to care for. Grease and dyes are eas­i­ly washed off with a sponge moist­ened with soapy water.

A big plus is the price of such chairs, which will allow you to pur­chase a qual­i­ty piece of fur­ni­ture with a com­fort­able back for lit­tle mon­ey.

A variety of models of chairs on a metal frame

The rapid change in fash­ion in inte­ri­or design has led to the expan­sion of the range of chairs and stools so that they can match the mod­ern style of the premis­es. Man­u­fac­tur­ers have not for­got­ten about the clas­sics either, turn­ing a bor­ing met­al frame into a work of art with carved curlicues and forged details.

Sal­va­tion in a small kitchen can be a fold­ing chair, which can be eas­i­ly removed and tak­en out if nec­es­sary.

Material and quality

The main com­po­nent of the chair is a met­al frame. The ser­vice life of the prod­uct depends on the qual­i­ty of its pro­duc­tion. If a weld or riv­et breaks, it will be quite dif­fi­cult to repair it.

It is impor­tant how thick the mate­r­i­al is chrome-plat­ed met­al. A thin one is able to deform, a thick one can with­stand a lot of weight and con­stant over­loads, but such a chair costs more.

The qual­i­ty is affect­ed by the raw mate­ri­als used to make the backs and seats. More sim­ple mod­els are equipped with plas­tic parts. They can even include arm­rests. Com­fort­able chairs are pro­duced with soft ele­ments cov­ered with leather, leatherette impreg­nat­ed with pro­tec­tive agents, flock and che­nille.

Design

Design options for prod­ucts on a met­al frame are end­less: it can be a clas­sic kitchen chair with a soft pink or a mod­ern arm­chair with a twist­ed airy base. Fur­ni­ture is equipped simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with plas­tic arm­rests, a seat made of fab­ric or leather, and the back is made of met­al rods inter­twined with dif­fer­ent pat­terns.

Any kind of met­al frame is giv­en, which affects the shape of the seat and back, the num­ber of legs and their con­nec­tion.

The choice of a par­tic­u­lar mod­el depends on the design of the kitchen, the design of the din­ing area, the main col­or scheme of the room.

Price

The price of kitchen met­al chairs depends on the man­u­fac­tur­er’s com­pa­ny, the cost and com­plex­i­ty of man­u­fac­tur­ing, the qual­i­ty of the mate­ri­als used.

The mar­ket offers the con­sumer a wide choice: from cheap and sim­ple chairs to expen­sive chairs with a soft leather facade, forged dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments.

How to choose

When choos­ing, you must imme­di­ate­ly imag­ine how met­al chairs of a par­tic­u­lar mod­el, col­or, shape will look in the inte­ri­or.

How­ev­er, the main cri­te­ri­on for choos­ing a piece of fur­ni­ture is qual­i­ty and con­ve­nience.

No need to be shy to sit on the cho­sen chair, lean on the back. The weight should be even­ly dis­trib­uted over the entire sur­face, while the per­son will feel com­fort­able.

When mov­ing dur­ing land­ing, there should be no extra­ne­ous sounds and squeaks. Their pres­ence indi­cates mar­riage or poor-qual­i­ty pro­duc­tion. Even if there are no sounds, you need to care­ful­ly exam­ine all the fixed areas.

Care

The met­al frame does not require spe­cial care, you need to wipe it from time to time with a damp cloth and pol­ish it with a dry cloth.

Soft fab­ric uphol­stery needs care. Espe­cial­ly when it comes to cheap chairs. For their pro­duc­tion, sim­ple fab­rics are used, with­out spe­cial water-repel­lent impreg­na­tion. Clean­ing stains from such uphol­stery is quite dif­fi­cult, but pos­si­ble. To do this, there are many deter­gents that are used to clean uphol­stered fur­ni­ture.

To avoid prob­lems with an irre­triev­ably soiled uphol­stered seat, you should choose more resis­tant fab­rics or leatherette. In addi­tion, it is pos­si­ble to pro­tect the uphol­stery with a cov­er that is easy to remove and wash.

Restoration

If it so hap­pened that the met­al base of the chair remained in good con­di­tion, and the seat broke or became unus­able for anoth­er rea­son, you can try to restore it.

The seats and back­rests are bolt­ed to the base, which makes it pos­si­ble to remove them, open­ing access to the fas­ten­ings of the fab­ric uphol­stery. To repair a chair, sim­ply replace the fab­ric on it.

It is more dif­fi­cult to car­ry out the work if the plas­tic com­po­nent is bro­ken. Although in this case it is not rec­om­mend­ed to throw away the met­al frame. You need to try to look for the nec­es­sary acces­sories for repair from the man­u­fac­tur­er. Or you can approach the restora­tion process cre­ative­ly and instead of a plas­tic seat, hang a piece of fab­ric on the base or use ply­wood dec­o­rat­ed to your lik­ing.