“We bought the wrong chairs for our church,” the pastor who had just called me lamented. “We appointed a committee to handle the selection process, and they were far more concerned with size and comfort versus the functionality our use required. Now every week we deal with the ramifications of their decision! If I had it to do over again,
As I assist churches throughout the country develop their cafe and coffee-shop environments, a major decision each church has to make is what height tables and chairs they’re going to furnish their new project with. I often find the terms church furniture manufacturers use to delineate the three basic height choices are not familiar to churches. So here’s a quick
Lesro has long been a great source for churches of quality, but also reasonably priced reception furniture. Their various modular collections provide all the components and accessories needed to accomodate any size of church reception area. In the world of church furniture the use of Lesro seating is very common. Recently Lesro introduced a new collection of reception furniture named
The addition of a “Flex Back” to several models of chairs has become an assumed advantage for such chairs versus models lacking a flex back. The combination of this option along with the increased price of chairs possessing this feature would certainly lead church furnishings purchasers to think so. But is this assumption valid? Church Furniture Partner conducted a non-scientific
Over recent years, there’s been a great effort among church seating manufacturers to control their production costs. Church seating is a very competitive arena in our day so any dollars saved on the production side aides in providing a competitive advantage. One of the major ways that manufacturers have tried to lower their production costs is to acquire or produce
I remember looking disappointingly at the collection of extended height swivel chairs we had collected at New Hope Community Church over the years. There were several different brands and styles that we had obviously tried out and then discarded. All of them had been purchased from a variety of office supply stores and warehouse clubs. And all had broken down
