Kitchen Stools

A kitchen stool sits at the kitchen worktop or breakfast counter - between a bar stool (very tall, for true bar-height worktops) and a dining chair (low, for proper dining). Aosom UK, Cheap Furniture Warehouse and Cherry Lane Garden Centres between them cover £12-£366 across the range. Standard kitchen-stool seat heights run 60-66cm to match a 90-92cm worktop with about 25-28cm of leg clearance. Above 70cm seat height moves into bar-stool territory. The decision points are backrest (full-back for working stools, low-back for occasional use, none for tucking flat under the worktop), and material (wood for warmth, metal for easy-clean, upholstered for kitchen-island lounges). Adjustable gas-lift kitchen stools cover 60-78cm for households where the worktop changed since the last set or where stool height varies between users. Look for footrests at 25-30cm below the seat - without them, the seat pressure goes wrong on the back of the leg within 20 minutes.