I need six new kitchen chairs. Please help me choose.

[Swedes]

I am sick sick sick of spot cleaning the fabric on our lovely antique kitchen chairs. I have decided to put them in the loft and buy something totally wipeable.

Would you choose these clear ones or

these white Eiffel chairs

or

I could buy plain white Christine keeler chairs from JL or M&S or Ilva (anywhere really!) and spray paint each one a different colour fuschia for me, cobalt for DS1 etc. OR

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I don't want to pay much.

H E L P

What is your kitchen like, ie style, colour, size etc? I know the Chair Company do different colour chairs but their website is down

I would choose the clear ones over the Eiffel ones, I just like them more, plus given the way my kitchen collects grease on every surface (not that my kitchen is big enough for ONE chair, let alone six) I wouldn't want to be cleaning the legs of the Eiffel.

If I was feeling particularly vain though, I might worry about what my bum would look like squished behind a layer of clear acrylic.

i like all of those. can you toss a coin ?

oh! yeah, the clear ones will get scratched and look less than pristine in no time, so go for the white or the multicolourd

i have an acrylic 'ghost' chair, hardly even used, and there are scratches and marks on it already. most things i dontr mind marks - makes it look 'real', but acrylic furniture is kind of meant to look perfect/shiny iyswim

The Marks ones are on special offer.

I love the eiffel chairs. I want to get the real thing for my kitchen.

I have acrylic chairs too, Ghosts and Victorias. I love, love, love them. But - they get covered in fingerprints and scratch very easily. I wiped one with an ecloth and it has tiny scratches on it. That said they are not very visible.

Lightweight wood might be better from a practical pov.

Oh and MIL said, 'oh you've got new plastic chairs'.

OOOhhhhhh. Excited about all these helpful posts.

My kitchen is hand-made painted cream units with fielded panels. Ginger coloured (speckled) grantie and a cream 4 oven Aga. And two free-standing huge cupboards, one painted french grey the other cream. It's quite plain and traditional I suppose. table is scruffy old Victorian farmhouse table that seats eight easily, two spaces used up by two Stokke Tripp Trapps so leaves space for six proper chairs.

Am quite tempted by the M&S ones.

think of the paw prints on the clear one!! you'll be forever cleaning them

Weetabix turned to readymix concrete on top of the lovely clear chairs. [crying emoticon]

Your kitchen sounds absolutely gorgeous Swedes!

I tink the contrast between the industrial looking eiffel chairs and the more trad kitchen will look fab.

Your kitchen does indeed sound lovely.
I think that clear acyrlic chairs might look a bit odd with wwat you describe, but the white M&S ones are very simple and classic and should go well.
We have chairs just like these even though our kitchen is not modern and they look good and are easy to wipe clean, they also look good with a Tripp Trapp chair.
Have you checked the M&S ones for quality?

Have ordered 8 of the M&S ones (I only really need six). I got a further £10 off too!

Thanks Norksdrift for the M&S link.

Pan - A friend of mine has the M&S chairs and they are pretty sturdy. I don't expect they'll become a family heirloom but I can't tell you how happy I'll be not to have to get down on my hands and knees with the Vanish spray gun after every meal like an obsessive compulsive.

Thank you all.

hah, good luck with the last one... not that i do get down on my hands and knees after each meal, nor evn insist that the girl i pay to do such things does... but we really kind of need to after feeding time with the 4, 3 and 2yos.

your kitchen sounds lots like mine - good taste!

Boysontoast - where do you live?

hampshire. why?

Just being nosy!

If you were closer, I would have asked you if you would take my little ones for the week day. I thought it would be nice for them to be in familiar surroundings (similar kitchen).

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