Japandi Accent Chair Ideas

Type japandi chair into a search bar and most of what comes back is made for a dining table. The dining chair is the bigger search by a fair margin, and its clean wood frame has become so much the face of the style that people end up parking one in a living room corner, where it looks as if it is waiting for a table to show up. An accent chair is a different animal: lower, wider, built for an hour rather than a meal. Keep the japandi dining chairs at the table and look for something broader for the corner.

Japandi accent chair inspiration, read from the floor up

Japandi pays close attention to the floor, so the most telling part of any chair is the way it meets it. The three looks here give three different answers, and each one changes how heavy the chair feels in the room. Read the base first, then the upholstery, then the color. The full run of accent chairs can be read in the same order.

The sled base

In the bedroom look, a cream upholstered chair on a walnut sled base shares the room with a king bamboo platform bed in black walnut. A sled is one continuous runner rather than four legs, so it slides over a rug and shows a band of floor beneath the seat. That gap counts in a bedroom, where the bed is already a big low mass; the chair stays light because you can see under it. It is the base I would choose among japandi bedroom furniture for the foot of a bed or a window corner.

The barrel in japandi accent chair pictures

The black boucle barrel chair does the reverse. Its body runs almost to the floor, so it reads as one soft block, and it shares its living room with a black marble round coffee table and a smoky brown glass bowl. Dark on dark could have been dull. It works because the textures argue with each other: nubby boucle, polished stone, glass you can half see through. A barrel this solid needs that kind of company, and the japandi coffee tables are the place to find it.

Four legs and a pale seat

The third look sets a white upholstered chair on legs beside a matte black oval coffee table and a light gray shearling sofa. Legs are the most neutral answer and the most forgiving in a small room, and the pale seat against a black table makes the sharpest contrast of the three. The rest of the japandi living room furniture can stay in that sofa's grays.

Lounge, reading or perching

The searches split along these lines too. A japandi lounge chair is looked for far more often than a reading chair, yet they are different purchases. A lounge chair has a low seat and a raked back, lovely for a drink or a view, awkward for a book. A reading chair sits more upright, with arms at a height where your elbows can rest while you hold the pages. Settle which hour of the day the chair is for before you settle its shape, and compare the two in rooms on the accent chair ideas page.

In the bedroom

A bedroom chair is rarely sat in for long. It holds clothes, a bag, somebody tying a shoe. That argues for an armless or low-armed chair with a firm seat, placed where it catches the window light in the morning. Of the three in this japandi accent chair gallery, the sled base is the one that belongs there, and the Dark Luxury Lookbook has more bedrooms built the same way.

Match the chair to what sits at its knee

The working rule I take from these rooms is to choose the chair against the surface nearest to it. Black marble wants a soft dark chair; a black oval wants a pale one; a walnut bed wants walnut under the seat. In each look the chair seems chosen against the closest hard surface rather than the sofa, which is why none of them reads as bought in a set. The same thinking runs through whole rooms on the japandi interior design ideas page.

The dining chair in the corner

Which brings me back to the opening. Scroll japandi accent chair photos long enough and you will meet plenty of slim wood dining chairs posed in corners with a throw over the back. They photograph well and sit badly. Of all the japandi accent chair ideas worth copying, the plainest is this one: buy for the hour you will spend in the chair, and give the corner something low and wide enough to stay in.