Bar Stools Sales Soaring

The British summer. What comes to mind when you think of the British Summer? I know for me, it’s certainly not sun! You might find yourself thinking about barbeques though. Barbeques, burgers and beer; a few friends around a chimera from tesco along with a slab of Stella you picked up on special for £8.99 as an afterthought…I bet you wouldn’t be thinking about bar stools though?

We kit ourselves out with everything but the bar stools when it comes to entertaining our friends at summer time. Sure, there’ll be a few camping seats to hand out but you can be pretty sure you’ll not have enough seats for everyone. It’s always the one ingredient we forget on every occasion; Christmas, New Years, Wakes, Celebrations and Birthdays…but the humble seat is vying for a comeback.

This year sales of bar stools in the uk are set to soar on the back of the increasing popularity of stay at home entertainment. The rising prices of alcohol at local pubs and increasing competition from supermarkets to cut the best deals on alcohol are encouraging a culture of staying home to have a good time and one of the surprise products rising up the bestsellers list are bar stools.

Home bars are increasingly more popular with upperand middle class families across the UK and with a flurry of new outdoor stools on the market, even the famous british barbeque is being overrun by the influx of more stylish, height adjustable seating.

Nowadays, people have brought the warmth and social enjoyment once experienced regularly at ‘the local’ back home, and that doesn’t mean inside. We used to look forward to evenings out with friends but now its more like evenings in with friends and that has meant the need for more stylish seating.

As part of this growing trend of home entertaining, you will find that the seating weapon of choice is the bar stool. Up until fairly recently, consumers had been limited in the styles and choice of bar stools that were available to them at their local retailer but now, with the advent of the internet and the advances in technology that have enabled cheaper design and manufacturing processes, we are bombarded with choice. Enough choice, in fact, to have a stool that will fit in any room, no matter the decor.

We’ve seen an increase in home bars as people consolidate and add value to their homes, and this has meant that now more than ever before, entertaining at home can be truly entertaining!