Childs chair plans/sizes.

[No skills]

Hello all.

My youngest has outgrown the awful (but very strong) chair that I made for her a year or two ago. Are there any online resources for standard sizes for childrens furniture? Or even better any plans for childrens chairs for various ages?

No skills JNR is currently 4 and a bit if that helps.


Thanks.

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[mrpercysnodgrass]

The critical measurement for a chair is the seat height. For adults the standard is 18". If you want to make a chair for your 4 year old, you can start by measuring the distance from the floor to under their calf and scale up from there.

 

[Brentingby]

You might have a look at Ana White to see if there's anything that would work for you.

If you find a plan for an adult-sized chair, you could scale it down using the front seat height as the target. I remember a few years ago seeing a thread on another woodworking forum in which someone was looking for a child sized plan for Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair. Another guy made a drawing of the full sized chair and scaled it down to make a plan which was used by the original poster to build the chair. Maybe you could do that.

Edit: I found the drawing of the two chairs, here.

 

[No skills]

Thank you both for the input. I'll have a look at the links.

I think when I made the last one I took a few measurements from chairs in shops and guessed the rest, I've not seen any chairs of this size locally - I'll have a google round too, I wonder if schools have standard sizes for different age groups.

Cheers.