Robust "bloke proof" dining chairs needed - recommendations please

googler

usignuolo wrote: »

Yeah well, he broke the chair this morning while we were chatting to his best mate (similar build). When I explained to OH for the nth time why he should not sit on it like that, his mate chimed in saying chairs should be able to be sat on like that and survive. If not they were badly designed.

So, as they break, you have fewer and fewer chairs. Eventually, it will get to the point where hubby and best mate have only two chairs between them, and if either breaks one, they will have one, and one of them will have to stand. If your hubby then breaks that, he has none.

Leave him to replace them as he breaks them, out of his own pocket money. As someone said, how old is he? 12? 15?

Myser

If him and his friend are always complaining about chairs not being fit for purpose - ask them to go out and buy some that they feel would be.

With him choosing and spending the money, I'm sure he'll be much more careful when sitting in them.

Plus, no comeback on you if they do break again. Stop worrying about it, it's his problem not yours! Unless you're concerned about them matching with the existing table etc.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Buy standard dining chairs or stools and send him to an osteopath.

It sounds like he's stretching his thoracic spine - I do it and a bunch of little facet joints in there go crunnnnnncccchhhhh and free themselves.

Taller people tend to slouch a lot, as most of the daily world is conducted at about 5'8" (if not lower), so they're constantly looking down, or when they're taller (like my ex), they're having to avoid lampshades, light fittings, door frames, badly designed stairwells, that kind of thing


Get his back dealt with, he won't feel the need to stretch it as much, your new chairs are saved and everybody's happy

Gloomendoom

How about something like this...