Wood High Chairs
For centuries, highchairs have been made out of wood.
Now we see high chairs made out of cheap plastic and inexpensive metal. I love a good wood high chair. Nowadays there are so many options for wood highchairs, it can be hard to choose.
Of course, we’ve all seen the wood high chairs at restaurants, functional, but not necessarily stylish, and sometimes not even good-looking! Are there other options your family can choose if they want an attractive wood highchair?
Yes, there are!
What are the advantages of wood over other materials for high chairs? Well for one thing, wood highchairs generally last for a long, long time.
Another advantage to a wood high chair is that it’s a nice looking piece of furniture. Wood just has the feeling of timelessness. A plastic highchair feels like a throwaway piece of baby equipment, something used for a few months and then sold for $5 at a garage sale.
A wood high chair is something that you and your baby can be proud of.
There are so many styles of wood highchair that you can find something that will fit with any decor. There are nice press back highchairs, bow back highchairs, and many other designs that have been popular over the years.
Many years ago my wife and I attended a family farm auction. One of the furniture pieces was a 100-year-old bow back highchair. It was beautiful! It was oak, nicked and weathered from decades of use. We struck up a conversation with the farmer’s wife (they were selling the farm and retiring), who provided much of the history of the high chair. She told us it had held and fed her 5 children and her 11 grandchildren, as well as herself as a baby! We bought it and have used it for years. Now, when our young grandchildren come to visit, we have the perfect high chair to help them learn to handle spoon and plate.
Can you imagine a current plastic high chair lasting more than 100 years?
If an old-style wood highchair is not in keeping with your style, there are many manufacturers who are making modern wood highchairs. Remember, wood is timeless, and the beauty of wood fits in with almost any interior design. There are many and varied styles, from the simple and minimalist Frank Lloyd Wright-type versions, to some that look like they arrived straight from Star Trek!
If you decide to get a wood highchair, it’s quite possible that this chair could be passed down for generations. Would your son or daughter like to have the high chair that he or she was raised in? Would they like to sit their son or daughter in the chair that brings back happy memories for them? That kind of tradition is priceless, drawing us closer to our own personal history.