Choose Your Commercial Counter Stools

More homes today are being built with kitchen islands or game room bars as part of the package. I love a bar for gathering about in the game room while we enjoy a round of pool or a game of darts. I also enjoy having a friend pull a stool up to the kitchen island and chat with me as I chop vegetables. While the islands and bars are often built-in, they usually don’t come with bar stools . You have to go out and find those yourself. Fortunately, shopping for them can be loads of fun, since there are so many kinds to choose from.

For the bar in the game room, we wanted something that looked like it might have come out of an old English or Irish pub. We were fortunate and located a set of four bar stools that were actually antiques from Ireland and only needed minor refurbishing to make them a comfortable addition to our recreation room. We could, of course, have purchased reproductions but we wanted the authenticity and we really enjoy the history of these pieces.

The stools for the kitchen were found at a home center. They are actually stools designed for use at an outside bar or for use on a poolside deck. They are weatherproofed metal with a wicker back and seat and look great with our kitchen. Though they were likely meant, at least originally, to be used at a bar, they seem to fit the island of our kitchen as if they’d been custom made for just this sort of job.

If you have a bar or are thinking of putting one in, then plan on doing a bit of shopping around to find the stools that will complement it perfectly. Once you do, you will agree that the investment in time and money is well worth it.