Sit Up and Take Notice: Highchair Shopping – Six of The Best In Profile
Posted: January 7th, 2009Looking for a practical, low maintenance, comfortable and stylish highchair for your child? Don’t go past Nerida’s special feature on six of the best options on the market. Enjoy!
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Stokke Tripp Trapp
My personal choice, and what we have at home, the Stokke Tripp Trapp looks Nordic super-cool and comes in a range of fantastic colours.
It doesn’t come with a tray which is a little tough at first, but not a problem by nine months or so, as you just pull it into any regular table.
Best of all, the chair can be easily wiped down and there are very few places for dried rice cereal to hide.
Although it seemed expensive for a high chair at the time, the chair grows with the child so that eventually it can be used for a chair for an adult (I heard a rumour that all staff at the Stokke headquarters use them at their desks). The chairs are also ergonomic so encourage good posture.
Stokke Tripp Trapp highchairs are available from Minimee.
FunPod
The FunPod has just recently arrived in Australia and is quite a clever piece of furniture. Like the Tripp Trapp, it is chair that grows with the child and can be used as a chair from six months to around 5 years of age.
It includes a tray that can be removed so that a child can sit directly at the dinner table and join in family dinners. By removing the chair the FunPod becomes a stool for children to stand on so that they are at workbench height.
I know my daughter loves helping me in the kitchen and this would be a perfect, safe way for her to see what I am doing while cooking.
The FunPod ticks all my boxes in terms of being easy to clean, practical, comfortable and stylish and is available at Metro Mum.
Nest
The Nest highchair is a very cool piece of furniture that has already achieved iconic status for its smooth edges and modern design.
The chair can be converted from high chair for a 6 month old to a low chair for a 6 year old. Its tulip design has ensured that it is one of the most stable highchairs on the market – perfect if you have a very active toddler who tries to grab everything in sight while waiting for their meal. The chair is easy to clean, practical, comfortable and incredibly stylish. Note that the tray is on the small side.
Nest is available in four colours, white, black, bubblegum pink and retro orange at Urban Baby.
Bloom Fresco
What first struck me about the Bloom Fresco highchair is the incredible range of colours it comes in, ranging from white to bright shades of purple and orange.
The chair can be used from newborn, reclined back like a bassinet, to two years, as a playseat.
In between these ages, it is a very practical highchair that can be height adjusted easily (pneumatic assist!)
The Bloom is easy to clean, practical, comfortable and great to look at. It is available from Kido Store.
HandySitt
The Handysitt is a clever Danish designed travel seat that is easy to clean (tick!), comfortable (tick!), practical (tick!) and great to look at (tick!).
It can be used from 7 months to 4 years and straps on to most chairs, making a comfortable highchair and then packs away flat to take anywhere, or used as space saving highchair in the home.
The HandySitt is available online at The Infant Boutique.
Kaboost
Kaboost is a rather clever contraption that boosts chairs so that a child aged from 20 months to 6 years can sit at the same height as the dinner table without a special seat.
Kaboost sits at the base of the chair and is easy transportable so that it can be used at home or when out and about.
The Kaboost is very easy to clean, practical and a good solution for when kids are a little older but are still a little to sit on a normal seat at the dinner table.
The Kaboost is available from Belly2Baby.
1. Stokke Tripp Trapp $349.95 $323.70 from Minimee
2. FunPod Highchair 3 -in-1 $379.00 from Metro Mum
3. Nest Highchair $695.00 $545.00 from Urban Baby
4. Bloom Fresco $749.00 from Kido Store
5. HandySitt $149.95 $134.96 from The Infant Boutique
6. Kaboost $59.95 from Belly 2 Baby
Please check individual stores for shipping costs and delivery information.
