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what kind of wood can I use to make an ooutdoor bar top? How do I prtect it from the elements?

I am looking to make a bar on my deck with a wood top. Just need to know what kind of wood and how to protect it

Just about any wood will do. Pick one with a nice grain, 2x6 to 2x8 planks. Don't use pressure treated. it looks ugly, weighs a ton, and it warps. Make your bar top, stain it, then apply several coats of exterior polyurethane, sanding lightly between coats. The polyurethane will keep the wood looking like new. For the first couple of years I'd sand lighly and re-apply 1 or 2 coats of polyurethane each Spring.

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As living spaces shrink by the day, more and more people are considering decorating options that lets them seat as many people as they want but with a minimal amount of space, and more often than not, that option is bar stools. UK families from London to Exeter are snapping up bar stools for every room of the house, but the most popular room for bar stools remains the kitchen. What makes kitchen bar stools so much fun is that they are extremely versatile. No matter what décor or design look you're going for, you can find kitchen bar stools to suit your every need. Let's take a look at a few popular styles of bar stools. UK residents, take note!

Perhaps the most popular and most versatile style of kitchen bar stool is the simple wooden bar stool. What makes a simple wooden bar stool so popular is that it can be adapted to whatever changes you plan on making to the room around it. Let's say you have a bright, airy décor in your kitchen now. A set of unvarnished, natural wood bar stools would fit in perfectly with a natural colored table. Not only would you save room in your kitchen or dining room, but bar stools are a fun alternative to chairs that kids love. Now, let's say a few years from now, you decide to redecorate and you introduce dark woods and stains to your kitchen. You don't have to go out and buy new kitchen bar stools, you simply have to paint or stain your bar stools. UK families love the versatility of natural wooden bar stools because they have a chameleon like quality that can blend in perfectly each and every time.

Another fun option with kitchen bar stools is leather or fabric coverings. If your kitchen bar stools are showing some signs of wear and tear, you can have the seat portion covered with high grade leather or with fabric that features a comfortable padding layer underneath. Along with some sanding and some refinishing on the legs of the stool, you suddenly have a whole new set of comfortable kitchen stools for a fraction of the price it would of cost to buy new ones. Most people don't realize that fabric seat covers are as popular as they are, since most seat covers are made from traditional leather, but you can create a design or use a particular fabric that matches your kitchen wallpaper, your wall paint or anything else you like. Versatility is the name of the game when it comes to kitchen bar stools. UK residents can save money and time, every time!

Finally, more and more kitchen bar stool makers are adapting their previous designs with backs so sitting for long periods of time is more comfortable. If you have kids that will be using the kitchen table for homework or if you will be using the table as a makeshift home office, look into getting a backing on your kitchen bar stools. UK families need to get the most out of their decorating dollar and nothing brings the value home better than kitchen bar stools.

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Bar Stool Options in the Kitchen Area

Using a barstool set in the kitchen is a great way to save space and incorporate the use of available countertop space and breakfast bar usage.

The Heart of the Home

The kitchen is generally considered the heart of the home. The meals are prepared in the midst of talking and laughing and fun times socialising with family and friends. You can carry on conversations while sipping on a cup of tea or coffee, doing homework with children, and having heart-to-heart conversations. Visiting of all types can be enjoyed over a steaming cup of hot chocolate. All these occasions and more make an inviting and warm family kitchen the heart of the home.

When you use a barstool set to allow more sitting space, create an inviting area for the family to gather, and add extra seating when friends visit, it will enhance the warmth and comfort of your home.

Usage Options

The kitchen offers a few different options for arranging your barstool set. If you have counter space that will allow setting up seating around it, this can be a great space saver. It will also add a place to eat, play games, and visit with family and friends.

Using the barstool area to do homework will help keep the table top clean for meal times. When you use the kitchen for helping with homework, you make it possible to combine the tasks of cooking, baking, doing dishes, and answering questions about the studies of your children. Besides the convenience of being able to get your work done while they get their work done, you will be creating a useful and inviting family area by making a welcome place for them to join you.

Using your barstool set at a high table will create a new look and enhance meal time and game time with room to move around and sit up high. Kids love being seated up high, and the view of everything going on around them will make it more likely that they will stay seated longer.

Barstool Options

If your kitchen area is small, you may want to choose a barstool set that is adjustable or foldable. Adjustable barstools offer the convenience of being modifiable for height. This will make moving them from one area to another easier; they can be raised or lowered to fit different heights.

Folding barstool sets offer the advantage of being stored easily. Easy storage makes putting them away and setting them up quick and simple to do. Using them only when needed for extra seating or for specific tasks such as homework, or a game night with the family, will be made easier by the storage options.

Using a barstool set in the kitchen can be an addition to your home that will enhance your lifestyle and family life. Inviting a closeness that will encourage conversation, being together, and socialising with each other, a barstool set-up can do what other furniture options may not be able to.

Making your kitchen a warm and inviting place that will truly be the heart of your home may be only a small change away. Setting up an area for bar stool usage may be just the change it needs.

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LOS ANGELES -- A popular bar in downtown Los Angeles has been evicted, and employees say they were completely blindsided. The eviction notice was posted around 2 a.m. Sunday on the door of The Must. Movers began taking out bar stools, tables and refrigerators of wine and beer.

Bar Stools, No Longer Just For The Bar

Bar stools are making a come back today. People's lives are busier than ever, so more and more families are choosing to stay at home, when they have downtime. However, keeping close to home doesn't have to be boring. In fact, individuals are creating entertainment areas within their house, and stools are an integral part of that. Bar stools have come along way from their early beginning.

You might be surprised to discover that bar stools have been around for centuries, possibly as far back as the 1600's. Of course, these were very crude examples in comparison to the bar stools available now. They were simple wood structures constructed with legs that were much taller than a standard chair to accommodate the high bars in pubs and saloons. Unlike some of their modern cousins, early bar stools were backless and had no cushions on the seat. Prior to the early 1900's, stools were still simply constructed structures made from wood with four legs and a motionless seat. This all changed in the 1950's, when bar stools experienced a metamorphosis. During this time chrome became the fashion, and chrome bar stools were built with brightly colored highly padded cushions, usually made of red vinyl, with a seat that could rotate 360º around its legs. This new style became all the rage. Not long after the chrome look an explosion of new styles emerged, including stools made from both wood and metal with high backs.

Now stools are available in numerous styles, including the famous 1950's look, which is still very popular. If you are just beginning your home makeover project or just looking for a way to add some punch, bar stools are an excellent way to add style and additional seating to your kitchen counter, bar, game room or entertainment area. This seating option is very versatile and can play up the theme of your room.

For instance, if you are decorating a game room, you may be looking for a pool hall feel. Bar stools present an excellent way to give the feel of a real pool hall or bar to your own home. Try integrating the simple swivel bar stools for an authentic feel to your game room. You can use them at your bar area or sporadically place them in the room for additional seating.

A fairly new idea is the entertainment room. This area is typically dedicated to a home theater system. Many families are combining the entertainment area and the game room to produce a very user-friendly space. The home theater often incorporates a bar area, the perfect spot for bar stools, and a game area creating an ideal spot for entertaining. For a contemporary décor that will compliment your high-tech equipment choose a neutral palette of colors, such as beige, black, white and gray. Then incorporate an accent color to give the room some pop. A popular accent color is orange, but you can pull any color from a favorite piece that has inspired your room and run with it. Then include pieces of furniture with straight lines and neutral colors from your palette, which are the perfect compliment to any bar. Look for items that provide plenty of hidden storage, so you can tuck away games and movies, but still keep these objects within easy reach. When combining an entertainment room and game room, you will want to keep both uses in mind, so ensure that an attractive media center is purchased and placed in an area without a glare and in clear view of seating. Keep in mind that heavy curtains are preferred for media rooms, so any glare from windows can be reduced. There are several styles of game tables that can add more function to the room. In fact, there are even game tables with sides that fold down, so they can be neatly tucked away until needed. This is the perfect solution for smaller rooms. You could even forgo the game table and opt for a bistro table with bar stools that match the style at the bar. By offering extra seating, you will not only create a versatile gaming area, but the ultimate family fun room, and with all the extra seating of bar stools, this could become your favorite place for entertaining guests, as well.

Many game rooms and entertainment areas are located near the kitchen for obvious reasons. The convenience of close proximity to munchies and the unexplained gravitational pull kitchens have with guests is a major reason for this trend. Many homes are designed with open floor plans now, and so kitchens and game rooms, family rooms, and other areas have become blurred, bar stools can help to create a seamless flow through these rooms. By selecting coordinating stools for your kitchen counter area, and then placing the same stools in your entertainment area you can provide cohesion between the rooms.

Bar stools is the perfect accent to any family's entertainment or game room. They provide a fun alternative to traditional seating and the convenience of mobility. Putting you in charge of your seating arrangements when entertaining guests. With the wide selection available today, you will be happy to find that there is a bar stool to fit any décor, whether it is traditional, rustic or contemporary. So, what are you waiting for, start designing your perfect play area today, and bring the fun home to your family.

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Five Tips on Buying Perfect Hotel Chairs

Setting up a new hotel is a big project in every way. And the financing and purchase of the furniture to completely supply every possible need of the guests who will stay in your hotel is a huge part of the planning process.

So it might help to know some tricks of the trade about how to buy great hotel chairs so you not only get chairs you will be happy with but chairs that will serve your customers well. After all, of all the different furniture types, chairs will probably be the largest single furniture expense you will have in setting up your hotel. You need chairs for the lobby, for the bar, for the continental breakfast room, for the multi-purpose rooms, for the guest rooms and even for the offices for management and staff. So to get hotel chairs you are confident in and get a good deal as well, here are a few guidelines.

Tip #1 - Don't Cut Quality for Economy.

Because of the large number of hotel chairs you are going to have to buy to get every aspect of your hotel up and running, you or your accountant may suggest that you consider cutting costs by purchasing chairs of a lesser quality than you are inclined to get. But this is a cost cutting decision that is worth reconsidering.

The chairs you provide your customers to use in your hotel are the silent work horses of your business. A hotel chair is the type of thing that the guests rarely notice or comment about except when there is a problem. But in every room in the hotel, chairs are there to provide comfort for your guests. This is especially true in the hotel rooms where the lounge chairs may serve for a granddad to tell a story to his granddaughter or where a businessman may pass hours in working on a proposal for his big presentation the next day.

These chairs are the most highly used items in the hotel room next to the bed. They need to be sturdy, look great and stay in continuous service week after week without interruption. You depend on those chairs so its best to buy quality up front so you can feel confident every day that the chairs in your hotel are top notch. You might be able to save a little on the pictures on the wall or on other lesser used items in you hotel. But chairs should be taken out of that category.

Tip #2 - You Better Shop Around.

With the quality issue taken off the table as an area of cost savings, that doesn't mean that you don't have ways of economizing while keeping your high standards for high quality hotel chairs. Once you have done your homework and know what hotel chairs are the ones that will provide you with the highest performance and which manufacturers to look to for buying your high quality chairs, there are options for cutting that total cost down and giving your budget a break without compromising quality.

One option is just good old fashioned negotiating. By identifying perhaps two or three hotel furniture suppliers that could provide good solid quality chairs, you can open discussions with their representatives and let them know that price could make a big difference in who you buy from. If your initial order for hotel chairs is a substantial one, they should be able to offer you a discount if one supplier can fill the whole order. But by letting them know that you are entertaining bids, you can let the law of competition drive the price down.

The after market or alterative suppliers of that same high quality chair may be another option. Many times hotels go out of business and the owners are looking to sell a lot of just the chair you want. Be careful that you inspect the chairs to make sure they are in good shape. But by finding hotel auctions, you can many times get great deals. The internet and alternative suppliers also are out there who can find you the very chair made by the manufacturer you like but find those chairs at a vasty reduced cost to you. So be a savvy customer and shop around.

Tip #3 - You Call the Shots

The negotiation process that we spoke of is tricky business. Salesmen are very good at helping you define what you want. The problem is if you let the chair supplier set your standards, they are going to influence you to buy what they want you to buy. That may be a fine choice but it's best if it is you who sets the standards and it is you that calls the shots on what kind of hotel chairs you buy.

Before you contact any suppliers at all, take the time to think through exactly what you want. That means laying out the floor plan of your new hotel and getting an exact count of each kind of chair that will make up your order. You have several chair types to buy including room chairs, dining room chairs, bar stools and chairs and more elegant chairs for formal rooms and the lobby. Get a firm count on what you need.

Then do your shopping to understand the characteristics of a good hotel chair and where to look for quality. The internet is a great way to look closely at the various hotel furniture suppliers to get an orientation for who you want to talk to about your order. By doing all of this preliminary thinking and research, by the time you sit down with a hotel chair supplier, you know what you are taking about and you know what you want. That keeps you in charge so you call the shots during the entire negotiating process.

Tip #4 - Think Multi Use

You may be able to reduce your order of chairs if you identify some chairs that can serve more than one use. Chairs for setting up a lecture or meeting are often stackable armless chairs that require storage when not in use. Those chairs are not being utilized well while they are stacked in storage so you may be able to use those chairs for your continental breakfast room or for other purposes where you need a lot of chairs for short duration.

You may also be able to rent out those chairs to church or civic groups who need to hold an event but don't need a large quantity of chairs every day like you do. By networking and finding ways to get more mileage out of the chair inventory you keep, you save money and maybe even generate a little revenue from chairs that serve your customers well every day.

Tip #5 - Try Before you Buy

Whatever method you use to find the perfect hotel chairs for your hotel, its really best that you do not make this big purchase sight unseen. It would be easy to do that when buying over the internet or from a suppler who you found through a source like ebay or Craig's List because they may be able to offer you a great deal on a lot of chairs. But go back to tip #1. Never sacrifice quality for economy.

Even if you are buying chairs from the manufacturer you like and in the models and colors you want, you don't have absolute assurance of quality until you inspect the lot. So be fussy, be stubborn but be flexible and smart as you shop for great hotel chairs. In that way you let the marketplace work for you to get a great deal. But you do so without giving up the one thing that is not negotiable and that is the comfort and great service you will give to the customers of your hotel.

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The Many Uses Of Adjustable Swivel Bar Stools

When you think of bar stools, the first stools that might come to mind are wooden bar stools, kitchen bar stools, or adjustable swivel bar stools. Many of you out there thinking of buying bar stools usually only have a one tracked mind when you see a bar stool. A bar stools can be multifunctional and not for the way it was primarily designed. Here are some examples of using one type of bar stool for other purposes; this will often end up a better fit.

Artists using bar stools are built to seat painters, sculptors, and architects as they ply there trade. These types of bar stools are manufactured with adjustable height gauges to accommodate any size of artist. Unlike standard bar or counter stools, these stools are not designed to be fully sat in, but instead for a mixture of sitting and standing. They allow for a lot of changing between standing and leaning when into there work.

Now, imagine this a busy cook in their kitchen at home. Cooking often entails 1st mixing and preparing the ingredients, then baking or roasting. This takes a lot of standing up and sitting down, working at one place, then moving to get more ingredients or make sure something in the oven is cooking well. Wouldn't an adjustable swivel bar stool be a perfect match for this kind of action?

Now think of bar stools that are mainly manufactured for use at bar counters, breakfast bars, game halls, or high restaurant tables. This type of adjustable bar stool can also be used in your living room with more traditional pieces of furniture like designer chairs or a plush sofa and also don't take up to much room.

Finally, folding stools are extremely versatile. Made primarily to be lightweight aluminium for carrying to isolated places, they are used by painters looking to canvas pleasant pastoral scenes. They are also favourites among hikers, campers, and anglers, those people who would be constantly on the move in the open country side and like to rest, make camp or fish.

These stools have multiple uses, from parties in the garden, where transitory seating is needed, to being used in your hobby shop or garage. They can sit lower than other types of stools, so reaching things closer to the ground is more fitting.

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What is a good defense against a bar stool?

What is a good defense against someone trying to clobber you over the head with a barstool? Or a chair? It happens in bars where I live.

Pick up your own stool, hold the seat and use the legs as the striking-point. Don't hit your opponent with it, but use the legs to jab or hit your opponent's stool. The purpose is to either knock it out of his hands or to shove his own stool against his body essentially immobilizing him. It depends on how your opponent holds his stool for how you will act. If he holds it above his head to attempt to bring it down on top of you, you can hit his stool to the side (like swinging a bat) to knock it out of his hands. If he is holding the stool at shoulder level or below, then push your opponents stool towards his body with your own stool and shove. You will either knock him over, or you will pin your opponents stool against his body, which will immobilize him either way. Once you have done either of these things drop your stool and move in for the attack quickly. Get in close, and pummel him with a flurry of punches and kicks and then shove him. He should go down pretty easy, because he will be unprepared after losing his stool/being pinned against his stool. Good Luck with your next night out.

Bar Stool Style Options

When it comes to choosing any furniture for your home, you want things that will go well together and enhance the feeling of warmth and comfort, or elegance and peace. Choosing patterns, colours, woods, and metals that will go well together can bring about the look and feel you want in your home.

Wood Bar Stool Options

There are many different kinds of wood you can find in a bar stool. Whether you like dark woods, light woods, red woods, or brown woods, you can find the kind of wood you want in a bar stool. Using the choice of a certain kind of wood throughout your living area can give it an appeal and a sense of order that it wouldn't have if your wood furnishings were mixed.

Some of the options you have in a wood bar stool are oak, birch, cherry, pine, walnut, redwood, mahogany, and maple. When you buy a bar stool that is already stained, you will have a lot to choose from. If you decide to buy natural wood, you can choose what tint of stain you want and stain it yourself. If you already have a wood bar stool, but it doesn't match your current décor, don't hesitate to strip it and stain it again.

Metal Bar Stool Options

Metal bar stool options offer the choice of iron, steel, chrome, and other metals. There is also the option of a wood bar stool with metal accents. Metals are very attractive when combined with wood and fabric selections that enhance the decor. They can add sparkle to an otherwise dull room.

Colours and Fabrics: An Important Consideration

When you are choosing a bar stool or a set to complement your home, you will want to coordinate it with the other furnishings you have. Using colours that go well together or that are different shades of the same colour add warmth to your home. Using patterns that enhance the colour scheme can make a huge difference in the overall effect of your décor. You can find a bar stool with a fabric covering or with a painted base. Choosing bar stool options for appearance as well as comfort will give you the home you want and make it warm and inviting.

Size and Storage

Knowing what you want in size is important before you shop. If you are looking for a bar stool that is a little taller than average, it wouldn't do to get one that's too short. Measuring the area you plan to use them in will help. You will want to measure for height and width.

There is also the option of buying a bar stool that is adjustable. This would give you the option of raising and lowering it according to the need of the moment. Besides adjustable bar stools, there is also the option of a fold-up bar stool. They fold up easily to fit into a closet for convenient storage.

Whatever type or style of bar stool you decide to get, you will be amazed at how much use they get and how much extra convenience they will add to your home.

About the Author

Leo Collins is the marketing manager of
Simply Bar Stools
a leading supplier of
Modern Kitchen Bar stools
. Suitable for all types of Breakfast Bars, Cafe Bars or Kitchen Breakfast Bars.

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