I miss accent chairs

This is another one of those things where old is new again.

For a long period of time (almost 50 years?) the standard decor in most living rooms included an accent chair. What exactly is an accent chair? It's a chair meant to seat a single person that's purposely different from other chairs in the room so your eye is drawn to it. In this case, "accent" doesn't mean "matches the other furniture", but rather just something to give the room a little pizzazz, if you will.

The chair seen above comes five other colors other than yellow, so oh yeah, you have choice.

Or this one which has nine color options with matching ottoman.

I'm honestly surprised how inexpensive accent chairs are. One of these starts as low as $60, and yeah, it's actual real furniture.

Is it worth it to buy an accent chair?

This depends whether you have people over routinely or not.

If friends or family visit from time to time, yes, get the accent chair because it will actually get used.

If people don't visit often, treat yourself to a decent coffee table.

By decent I mean something like this with areas for storage. Not expensive, and certainly better than just a plain table that can't store anything.

Published 2023 Jun 22