A contractor built an out door kitchen for me on my concrete covered patio with a raised bar that seats 3. Where the people will sit is not covered but is on concrete. The issue is that the bar is 46.5 inches high instead of the standard 42 inches high, and almost all bar height chairs are around 30 inches to the seat. This makes me look like a little kid that’s too short for the table.
The only idea I can come up with is to pour a 3-4 inch contrete block on top of the existing concreate pad that goes at least twice the depth of the chair, along the width of the bar. Will this work or do you have a better idea? Thanks.
Rick
Tom: I don’t understand why he would make it forty-six and a half inches tall.
Charlie: He wants to pour about three or four inch concrete block on top of his floor to lift the stools up. I could see problems with that.
Tom: I don’t think it’s a great idea. I think you might have to, you know what I would do? If he’s really serious, go to someone like TriFection, have them make some custom bar stools or something.
Charlie: Oh, what a great idea.
Tom: Yeah, I think that’s going to be a better solution and a safer solution. I still hate the idea of the forty-six inches. That’s just an odd height. It’s too high, even to stand up against and use. It’s almost four feet tall. Thirty-six inches is your standard height for a kitchen cabinet, thirty-two for a vanity, although a lot of people are going to thirty-six now.
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