Guide to Oak Dining Chairs
Whichever style of oak dining chairs you are looking for the selection available nowadays ensures that you should have no problems in finding a chair to suit both your home, and your personal sense of style.
These dining chairs generate feelings of warmth and homeliness which is inherited through the natural properties of the oak timbers used. Typically they come in 3 main categories:
- Leather upholstered
- Fabric upholstered
- No upholstering
All of these types of oak dining chair can be found in various styles of both modern and traditional influences, so regardless of the theme that you have in mind there is a chair that should fit in beautifully.
Solid Oak Dining Chairs
The vast majority of oak dining room chairs listed through this website are solid oak dining chairs. This means that the chair has been constructed entirely from high-grade solid oak pieces, delivering a product that is far superior to the ones which are not.
Chairs within the solid oak dining chairs category offer durability and a superior level of quality that will last for a number of years. Opting for a cheaper, lower quality of chair could seem like a good money saving idea but in reality turn out not to be, especially when the extra performance of the solid oak chairs is taken into consideration.
Furthermore, these oak dining chairs are constructed by highly skilled craftsmen in a process designed to not only maximise the lifespan of each chair from a durability point of view, but also from an aesthetic point of view. Special furniture wax is used to coat the chair and protect it while simultaneously enhancing the inherent beauty of the grain.
You may think that this type of oak chair has an off-putting high price attached, but may be surprised to see that prices per chair start from as little as £78.49. The lattice backed solid oak dining chair for example provides a wonderful example of premium quality available at a very affordable cost.
While some solid oak dining room chairs do feature no additional upholstering there are plenty of models which do include to varying degrees the addition of either leather or fabric to provide an interesting contrast.
Leather and Oak Dining Chairs
One of the most popular variations of oak dining chair is to combine it with varying degrees of leather. Some models will entirely cover the entire upper seating and back area of the chair while others may only go as far as the seat.
The curved leather oak dining chair for example is a wonderful example of the effect that can be achieved by combining the 2 materials. In this instance the back also incorporates a central leather cushioned area.
Although it is possible to find additional colours of leather, the main colours of leather chair featured within this site are: brown, black, red and cream/white.
When searching for a leather upholstered dining chair it may be worth going for a genuine leather version for that extra touch of class. These types of chairs are easy to clean if anything does get spilled on them, requiring only the use of a damp cloth.
Fabric Oak Dining Chairs
Similar in style to the leather and oak dining chairs, but replacing the leather material with some form of fabric upholstering. These chairs are available in a wide range of patterns in addition to the standard plain styles.
Depending on the supplier, they can be ordered with a custom fabric selected - which is great to match to either your carpet or other colours present in the home - or from a pre-existing range of design patterns and colours.