Found: Bistro Bar Stools

Mar 25th, 2008 by Marilyn

When we decided to include a sit-down bar in kitchen, we should have known it would trigger a passionately competitive internet search for the right bar stools.

Found!

By Greg. Grrrr.

Not too tall, not too short, real wood, comfy bistro lines. These are restaurant stools and they were Greg’s choice. Though I liked them from the start, I pushed several other versions under his nose and he, of course, stuck by his guns.

I am now forced to say – in print, yet again – that he made the right choice.

Yes they are just chairs, for pete’s sake.

But I’ve seen kitchen bars where no one wants to sit – and we certainly didn’t want that to happen. We want to see ours occupied by happy snackers, breakfasters and sippers, so it was important to find inviting seating – bar stools that feel like a bar or a bistro, somewhere you might sit with bacon quiche and cheesy onion soup.

Or drink a little red wine while someone makes your steak. There’s a lot of “raised seating” out there these days, and much of it is pretty awful. It was either classic or ultramodern. For us, classic usually fits.

Once the bar gets the copper treatment and we bang it up a bit, I’m pretty sure it will be quite delightful. I will sit under the new green glass lights, lean on the bar with a little tea and sugared almonds, and settle in to read…