Good, comfy, chairs

Like a couch chair thing? (can you tell I don't know much either?)

I could maybe go with a little couch type thing but really a couple of chairs would be best.

Does anyone know anything about a company called Stanton? Are they any good? I saw some online for a reasonable price but I don't know anything about them and their website doesn't include much info about construction.

you have to try them out !
you can't tell a comfy chair from an uncomfortable one just by looking at it - and everyone has a different idea of "comfy" , i think .
i like my "lazaboy" chair , but it's not smallish - though there a "against the wall" models now .
i think i'll have to go and stretch out right now !
hbg

I bought a chair that is a version of the chairs on Ellen's set. Sooo comfortable. (I'll see if I can figure out who made it).

My three comfiest chairs are all IKEA. Two Tullsta (different colors), and one that I don't think they make anymore. It's similar-ish to the Jennylund but curvier and nicer.

ok, so Soz and i are in effect recommending the same chair.

I've got a Canadian manufacturer's version of the Tullsta, which is a version of Ellen's slightly bigger chairs.



mine has slightly lower, heavier legs, and a lower curved back bolster

I have to go with Mr. H's mention of Lazyboys. We have 2 and are quite comfy.

I also have 2 comfortable chairs from IKEA. They look like this one,
but no recliners.

reyn :

the "lazaboys" have it !!!
(we must be the two laziest fellows on a2k - what champs we are !!!)
hbg

You might even take a look at office furniture. I have a reclining lazyboy. It not only vibrates, it heats. It is not comfortable in the upright position at all. I guess they work for some, but not me.

Oh yes. I completely agree that comfort is a test drive experience when it comes to chairs. I just didn't want to drive out to the X brand showroom and find out their furniture was made of plywood and swiss cheese.

I love those upholstered chairs but I doubt they would last 6 months in my house. We murder furniture. I hate to admit it but it's true.

LaZBoy has a reputation for durability so I might visit their showroom. I'm not really interested in recliners but I uderstand they made other kinds of chairs or recliners that don't look like recliners.

Mr. B keeps pushing me towards Morris chairs. He remebers me sitting in one and loving it but a Morris chair doesn't seem too cuddly.

I kind of like those glider chairs and he says the Morris chair I loved did the glide thing.

Trouble is, he can't remember where I sat in the loved chair or what brand it was.

Or how much it cost.

<sigh>

This is probably why I don't have any furniture......

Like this?
http://www.amishpride.com/occasional.php
found it by searching morris glider. mission glider gets more results.

Yeah.... I guess....

Honestly, I can't imagine seeing that chair and thinking comfort.

But it totally looks Oregon; very Timberline lodge.

I like the fat arm rests. That would work for us but that chair just dosn't look cozy.

Dunno about Soz's Tullsta, but my variant is suede. I hit the Sears clearance centre and got it for less than $100.

I've got a Canadian-made recliner, designed not to look like a recliner. Very mod - cut very high through the centre. I don't use the reclining function much since I got the dogs, since I find pets and mechanical chairs aren't always happy matches. I'm always a bit fidgety when we're at the hamburgers, as Cleo likes to stretch out just under the footrest of the recliners there.

mission-rocker-recliner

not my idea of small - those mission chairs tend to be biggish - but it's probably quite comfortable (and it would go with the rest of my quarter sawn oak pieces)

We had a strange and wonderful chair in the early fifties - thus my sketchy memory - that looked sort of like a south seas comfort chair - cushy cushions with a sort of palm tree type print, and flat wide arm rest where you could put a can of coca cola and some soda crackers, for example. Wide enough for a ten year old to fold her legs, but not a really huge chair. Didn't go with anything else in the house but was a primo tv chair.

Of those so far, I like CJane's chair - the arm rests are low enough to throw a leg over while slouching, and I like the looks.

I'd a friend who collected Stickley furniture, but I never warmed up to it.

Lane!

I've got a couple or three of Lane pieces. They're usually quite well made.

these mission recliners all do look a bit the same

I can't find anything like I was talking about yet..

meantime, this looks goofily comfortable, if a tad amorphous --
http://picasaweb.google.com/calihijamie/GrahamFurnishingOptions#5209764065377483554
(couldn't link the photo, but the link brings you to the place..)

Cough, a tad pricey.. me I get my furniture at thrift/"antique" shops - have gotten some great pieces. But.. Craigs List could work.. once you know what you want.

Like the lines of the 40's chair and the radio chair... towards the bottom of this page - except that I'd have to dynamite them for the print fabric. Unless, just in the right place...

http://www.windsreachstudio.com/portfolio.htm