Why I decided against the Tripp Trapp...first, take note that I am *really* picky. As I was Googling for information, stumbled on many people and a few videos of kids pushing their feet against the table and tipping the chair backwards. Several years ago, Stokke came out with their fix for this, and that was extra plastic gliders that you stick hanging off the back of the base of the chair that you use while in baby mode. Then remove them for >3 (or kid mode). Firstly, I think the extra gliders hanging off the back look horrid. And while a cheap, valid solution, I want something that looks better on a $300 chair (price in Canada). There are numerous redesigns to address the issue, but instead, they kept their tried and true design and hacked on some ugly extra gliders. See, warned you I was picky.
Second, the chair has glides on the bottom already so it slides on the floor if a child pushes against a table instead of tipping over (and the extended glides are for baby mode when the child's centre of gravity is higher). I put felts under chairs so they don't scratch up my floors. I wasn't sure if putting felt was going to interfere with the extended gliders, raising them or having them tilt and not work properly. I wasn't sure if I'd easily be able to add felts under the extended gliders as well without messing up the solution for non tippage. I didn't want my desire for unscratched floors to risk my kid tipping the chair. Reminder, I warned you I was picky.
Thirdly, they had some nifty chair pads that were acrylic coated, so easily wipeable. Except when I went to the U.S. and Canada stores on their web site, they didn't have the colour I needed. In fact, it didn't appear they had the acrylic coated ones at all. Then I decided to choose a grey chair, and it said out of stock on Stokke's web site, and their non-store, product only page doesn't show grey as a colour choice anymore. So, I think grey is no longer made. So, I was going to go with my 2nd choice of black. And then I read that Stokke has put a huge warning label on the back of the chairs and people have had difficulty removing the label (which looks horrid although I'm sure it's required for something) and after they did, the finish on the black chair looked different than the rest of the chair. Likely due to it being a dark colour so more noticeable. Then I decided to go with my 3rd choice colour which was the American Walnut (not the walnut coloured finish, the actual walnut wood), well that was an extra $150 for walnut. And since I already have 2 chairs sitting in my kitchen and looking to purchase a 3rd before selling the others...I opted not to get the $449 version.
By the end, I was just looking for reasons to take it off my list, so that's why the list get pettier as it goes along. :ROTFLMAO:
