Handling church chairs and seating normally only gets attention when the chairs need to be moved regularly, and even then only by those individuals who have to actually move them. Here are some factors to consider to help appreciate the efforts of the chair movers in your church. Weight: The most common style of worship chair weighs around 20 pounds.
What kind of environment will your church chairs be located in? A more formal traditional one? Or an edgy casual one? Your environment will be the number one determiner of the level of aesthetics you will want as you purchase church furnishings. Let’s take a look at various choices to be made for your church seating. Chair Frames: I believe
Church Furniture must be durable. Every week the church furnishings found throughout the facility will be used by groups within and without the church, and by groups of every age. All church furnishings need to have a high degree of durability, and this is especially true for the most used type of furniture, church seating. Let’s take a look at
Now that we’ve looked at the top two church seating criterion, cost and comfort (see my previous two articles), we’ll move on to other five. Each of these five are very important, but normally not given the consideration they deserve. We’ll start this group of five additional criterion by examining “chair storage“. When I counsel churches on chair purchases, I
Although “cost” is the most heavily weighed church seating criterion, a close second is “comfort”. We like to be comfortable when we’re seated for extended periods of time. And nothing affects that level of comfort more than the chairs you’re sitting on. Here are some “comfort” factors to be aware of when purchasing church furnishings. More Padding does NOT Mean
When you appoint a committee for any sort of church furnishings purchase, you can be sure that among the group members will be those whose primary concern is going to be cost. This is certainly true when it comes to church worship seating. Over the years as I’ve worked with church furnishing manufacturers and church construction firms, one consistent refrain
