Tables · 5 min
Outdoor bistro sets and the two-top math of a city sidewalk
Two chairs, one small table, a strip of sidewalk. That is the whole unit, and on most city fronts it is the unit that pays.
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Guides to outdoor restaurant seating, from sidewalk cafes to rooftop bars and courtyards.
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Tables · 5 min
One outdoor bistro table, picked top first and base second
The chairs are already stacked by the door. Twelve of them, good ones, bought last year. What the sidewalk needs now is six tables, and only tables.
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Room layouts · 5 min
Outdoor cafe seating starts at the curb line
Measure the curb line first. Not the facade, not the window, the curb.
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Bar stools · 5 min
Outdoor counter stools start with a tape measure at the ledge
The ledge is 36 inches. The stool seat is 30. That leaves six inches for a pair of knees, and nobody sits there twice.
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Tables · 5 min
Size the outdoor dining set 4 guests share before the two-tops go down
The fours go down first.
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Room layouts · 5 min
Outdoor dining sets for 8 and the birthday table at golden hour
The call comes in at four. A party of eight, a birthday, and they want to sit outside at seven, right when the light goes gold across the street. You say yes.
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Tables · 5 min
The outdoor metal table, read frame first and finish second
Put your palm flat on a black steel tabletop at two in the afternoon in July. That's what your guest feels when they rest an arm on it.
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Room layouts · 6 min
Outdoor restaurant seating, planned from the walkway in
The curb is two feet closer than you think.
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Outdoor · 5 min
Outdoor seating covered by a roof, and the chairs that need one
Look up before you order. If there is a fixed roof or an awning over the spot, you have a covered patio, and a few chairs in our range were listed for exactly that.
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Tables · 5 min
Under the top: picking an outdoor table base by spread and height
Wind comes round the corner of the building and hits the tabletop first. What happens next depends on the iron, steel and spread underneath it.
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Chairs · 5 min
Resin chairs for the sidewalk: weights, colors and the stacking line
Hose them down, tip them to drain, stack them by the door. On a sidewalk that sets up every morning, that is most of what you want from a chair.
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Bar stools · 5 min
Stackable outdoor bar stools and the half hour after last call
Last call at eleven. The rail empties by half past. Then sixteen bar stools have to leave the sidewalk, and the crew wants to go home.
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Outdoor plans
Save finished configurations by space, then copy a plan when another sidewalk, roof or courtyard opens.
Start where you stand
Move the plan toward an order.
Start with the seats
Open outdoor chairs or bar stools for the height you need. Check the configured price and the size before you repeat a piece across the space.
Compare patio chairs →Count the whole table
An outdoor table can be one piece, or a top and a base sold apart. Check what is included and how the two go together before you price the space.
See complete outdoor tables →Keep the space total close
Save configured pieces to a named space. Watch the furniture subtotal, change the counts and keep your own notes beside it.
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