Banquette Seating
Banquette seating or “booth seating” is a comfy way to segment restaurant or living space into a more inviting environment. While conventional seating options can take up limited floor real estate, banquette seating hugs the wall to give the space a roomier and more bespoke feel. Cafes and their patrons love banquettes for a reason: they’re an invitation to snug in and relax.
Of course, every space is different. Generic banquette seating can be just as obstructive to a crowded room as a traditional chair setup. To use this design to maximize the comfort and appeal of your room, you should consider custom banquette seating designs.
While the process of designing and installing a custom piece is more immediately labor-intensive, the results are more inviting, long-lasting, and satisfying. For designers, homeowners, decorators, architects, and more, custom banquettes are an opportunity to bring personality and vision to a space, provided they’re implemented the right way.
The Basics of Designing Banquette Seating
Custom banquette seats come in diverse style options that you’ll need to narrow down. The seat, back, apron, outside back, and inside back can all be customized to create a stronger profile, a more comforting appearance, or a tone of luxury. The key is to match the vision to the language of the seat’s design and the materials it uses.
Choosing a Banquette Design
Custom banquette seating can provide various design options including different arms, aprons, legs, bases, seat depths, seat crowns, and more. Some have recessed bases to better fit the space. Most designers recommend only using arms if the table’s edge aligns with them.
To that end, the choice of table is important when choosing custom banquette seating. If you have to buy tables for a complete interior design change, you can match the table to the needs of the preferred banquette or vice versa.
However, if you already have the tables in a situation such as a restaurant redecoration, you should apply a few key design rules. For example, banquettes usually land at the table’s edge or under it. If the tables have legs on the edges, the banquettes may not fit them. In an ideal scenario, the table would have its supports in the middle and the lip of the table would stick out over the seat. This allows the seated person to slide in “under” the table.
The key takeaway is that the design of the custom banquette seating needs to fit not only the space but also the other furniture in the room.
Choosing a Banquette Material
The material of the custom banquette is another aspect to consider when fitting your designs to the space. For example, if your banquette seating is intended for a restaurant setting, you should choose a material that can take a beating. Suede and silk seats are going to absorb messy stains and retain scratches after continuous customer use. On the other hand, cotton canvas comes in liquid-resistant and stain-resistant options for heavy-duty situations.
If you’re choosing banquette seating for your house and want to prioritize the look over the durability, you can go for those nicer but more delicate materials. Velvet is a great choice either way because it has luxury options for bespoke restaurant experiences as well as liquid-resistant “performance” variants for other uses.
The key to choosing styles and materials is to match your vision for the space and the reality of the space’s limitations to the qualities of the custom banquette seating. Experienced custom furniture designers can work through the problem with you, but there’s no reason why you can’t learn a little on your own! Use these basic qualities to review style and material options and find designs that make you happy.
Installing Banquette Seating
After choosing the base, arms, depth, pitch, length, width, material, style, color, accents, and more, exhausted interior designers and restaurant owners still need to install their new custom banquette seating.
Studious designers can potentially create built-in banquettes using plywood, shiplap, and the seating material of their choice. However, this tends to be beyond the reach of most home and business owners who know the benefits of hiring experienced custom furniture designers to execute their banquette seating visions without the hassle.
Sixth Avenue Creates Residential and Commercial Furniture Tailored to Your Needs
At Sixth Avenue, our custom furniture artisans proudly offer unique furniture solutions for residential and business clients in the DC Metro area. Our seasoned woodworkers offer unique banquette seating designs to achieve the intended experience for consumer brands and homeowners alike.
Customer satisfaction is our top priority; our artisans never sacrifice the quality of the vision to boost our margins. We take great pride in our designs, our materials, and our ability to exceed customer expectations with bespoke furniture pieces customized for their spaces.
Contact the team at Sixth Avenue Custom to learn more about how we can elevate your home or business with unique furniture creations tailored to your needs. You supply the vision – our artisans will take it from there.
