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Swivel bar stools

A regular who can turn to talk without shoving the stool back keeps your counter quiet and your floor unscratched. These 87 stools are grouped for the swivel seat, nearly all on metal frames and mostly with padded vinyl seats.

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Black Coated Frame Bar Stool, Metal Swivel
Black Coated Frame Bar Stool, Metal SwivelFrom $110.00
Chrome Bucket Swivel Bar Stool, Single or Double Ring
Chrome Bucket Swivel Bar Stool, Single or Double RingFrom $105.00
Chrome Retro Bar Stool, Single or Double Ring
Chrome Retro Bar Stool, Single or Double RingFrom $79.00

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Swivel bar stools

Notes from behind the counter

Picture the piece at four in the afternoon, after the lunch line has been through. Check the seat height against your counter and the base spread against the top. Save the models that pass to a shop plan, with a note on where each one goes.

A swivel lets a regular turn to talk without dragging the stool across the tile, so with swivel bar stools the real question is seat height against your ledge.

Allow room for movement

Check the seat and back as the stool turns, not only when it faces the bar. Review the listed swivel details and give the moving seat clearance from adjacent furniture and walls.

Measure your actual counter

Check the listed seat height against the counter or bar where the stool will be used. Measure the underside as well as the top surface, and account for aprons and footrests.

Shop plans

A regular who can turn to talk without shoving the stool back keeps your counter quiet and your floor unscratched. These 87 stools are grouped for the swivel seat, nearly all on metal frames and mostly with padded vinyl seats. Choose the back shape and the seat height first, because the swivel itself is the reason you came here.

Why a swivel at the counter

Dragging a stool back means noise, a scratch on the floor and a bump into the person behind. A swivel seat takes most of that away. People turn, step down and leave the stool where it stands, which keeps the line along the counter straight through the lunch hour and the afternoon lull.

Bucket seats and backs

Bucket seats lead this group by a distance. They wrap the sitter and suit a counter where people settle in with a sandwich and a newspaper. Interchangeable backs, retro shapes, ladder backs, vertical slats and window backs fill out the rest. Padded backs are common, and a few stools have arms.

Seats are mostly vinyl, which wipes down between customers, with wood and fabric on some listings. Ask for a free swatch of the vinyl before you commit a full counter to one color.

Height and spacing

The lowest listed seat sits at 29 3/4 inches, the tallest at 31 1/2. That is bar height, for a ledge standing 40 to 42 inches tall, so a low deli counter needs a different stool. A bucket seat is wider than a plain stool, so read the width on each listing and space them at the generous end of 24 to 30 inches center to center.

Every stool here is listed for indoor use. Keep them inside, away from the door that lets the rain in.

The plain end of the range is a swivel ladder-back metal bar stool, about 17 inches wide, the sort of stool a breakfast counter has used for decades. Prices range from about $79 to $256.

Where to look next

Fixed positions along a diner-style counter are covered in the bolt-down bar stools. The deep, padded seats are gathered in the bucket bar stools, and the old lunch counter look lives in the retro bar stools. The full range sits under bar and counter stools.

Mark each stool along the ledge on your shop plan. The swivel needs no extra room, but the bucket seat does.

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