Furniture Friday #1 : Dining Chairs
This is something new I will hopefully be doing weekly from now on. This series of posts will highlight simple and interesting designs for various kinds of furniture. For the very first week, I decided to start basic, and today I’m going to be sharing some designs for dining room chairs.
First, let’s discuss by far the most common design, simply using stairs as chairs. Available in many materials, and complete with a back already built in, stairs are usable as chairs in most situations.
Many chairs, of course, have arms which stairs clearly lack. Is there a way to add them? Of course there is! There are a number of ways to emulate chair arms using various objects in combination with the classic stair design. Probably the oldest and most used is a model using signs. By placing signs either side of the stairs, you can easily create a chair with arms. This design works best with oak wood stairs, as the colors will match, but it can also look interesting with other materials.
A similar design incorporates trapdoors to do much the same job. As of 1.13, trapdoors come in many different wood materials, allowing them to match much better with more materials than the signs can. This design has higher arms than the signs, and it’s all a matter of personal taste of the builder which they prefer.
However, both of these designs have an inherent flaw- chairs must have a two block space between them, as both signs and trapdoors can only exist one-a-block. Obviously, this can make placing chairs together at a dining table a difficulty. Luckily, other designs combat this problem. The first utilizes a single fence gate. This design works by utilizing the fact that fence gates can be opened to separate into two pieces. By placing a fence gate between two stairs, it can serve as the arms for both. This design is likely the most detailed looking, as the hole in the fence gate leads to an appearance of supports for the arm piece. It has one major downside however, gates will always have two parts, so another design must be used if there is no more chairs on the other side of a chair. Fortunately, if up against a wall of the same color, as shown below, the extra chair arm on the end can be hid against the background.
A design similar in many ways to those above, item frames are unique in that they are not blocks, rather, they are entities. This allows two frames to be placed within one block, allowing chairs to be placed close together, as in the gate design, without an extra piece on the end. Personally, I dislike the color of the frames, and tend to avoid them as arms, but their usefulness in confined space makes them worthy of this list.
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