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I Bought 6 Chairs for Our New Flat in Hyderabad.
Two Were Mistakes.
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Ananya Krishnan
April 2026 · Kondapur, Hyderabad · 14 min read
My husband Siddharth and I moved into our 3BHK in Kondapur eight months ago and I spent around ₹2.4 lakhs on chairs. That number sounds organised. It was not. It was six separate purchasing decisions made across four months, two of which I now regret, one of which I still can't stop talking about, and three of which were solid choices I'd make again without changing anything.
I'm writing this because when I was shopping, I could not find a single review from someone in India who was honest about what went wrong. Everything online was either five stars written in that voice that sounds like the product itself wrote the review, or generic buying guides with no specific experience behind them. So here is my specific experience, with the rupee amounts, the mistakes included.
"All six chairs were ordered from Shopps.in. I am not a professional designer. I am a 31-year-old product manager with a new flat, an obsessive Pinterest habit, and a husband who agreed to all purchases as long as the living room stayed liveable. This is an honest account."
— Ananya Krishnan, Kondapur, Hyderabad
6
Chairs bought over 4 months
₹2.4L
Total spent, IGST included
2
Honest regrets I'm telling you about
The Two Mistakes — So You Don't Make Them
I'm leading with the failures because that's the part nobody writes about and the part most worth reading if you're about to spend real money on chairs.
Mistake #1 · Bar Stools · ₹27,990
My fault, not Shopps.in's
Swivel Bar Chairs — Wrong Height for Our Island
I ordered the Swivel Bar Chairs (₹27,990 for the pair) without measuring our kitchen island height. I assumed all kitchen islands in Indian flats were the same height. They are not. Our island is 85cm — lower than the standard 90–95cm that these stools are built for. The seat height is 68cm, leaving only 17cm of clearance under the counter instead of the 25–30cm you need for comfortable sitting.
The stools are not broken. They're not bad. They're just wrong for our specific island. We use them at our kitchen table instead — where the height works fine — but that's not where I wanted them and it irritates me every single morning.
What I'd do differently:
Measure the counter height first. Subtract 25–30cm for the seat height you need. For an 85cm surface: you need a stool with seat height 55–60cm, not 68cm. The Counter Stool Chair (₹19,900) at Shopps.in would have been the right call. I could have saved ₹8,000 and gotten the right product.
★★★☆☆
3/5 — Good product, wrong application. My measurement error, not a quality issue.
Mistake #2 · Dining Chairs · ₹46,000
Chose looks over length
A Different Chair (Not Reviewed Here) — Bought for Photos, Not for Dinners
My second mistake was not a Shopps.in order — I ordered from a different retailer because I wanted a specific design I'd seen on Instagram. Two dining chairs at ₹23,000 each. They are beautiful in photographs. At 90 minutes into a Sunday family lunch, every single person at the table has shifted posture at least twice because the foam is already compressing and the back height hits the wrong part of the spine.
The foam is the giveaway for a chair chosen by a photographer rather than a furniture professional: it looked immaculate in the studio shoot and felt soft and luxurious for the first three minutes of sitting. By month four it had lost its shape and the seat feels noticeably harder than it did when new.
What I'd do differently:
Ask about foam density before buying any dining chair. 35 kg/m³ minimum for chairs that will be used daily. The Solaris Dining Chair (₹23,000) from Shopps.in was what I should have bought — I'd tested it at a friend's home and it was still comfortable after three hours.
The Four Wins — What I'd Buy Again Tomorrow
Win #1 · Horse Chair · ₹57,900
was ₹1,20,000
Horse Chair — The Living Room Anchor
The Horse Chair cost more than I planned to spend on a single accent chair. Siddharth raised an eyebrow at ₹57,900. I said it was 52% off from ₹1,20,000 and that the alternative was a ₹15,000 occasional chair from a mall that we'd replace in three years. He agreed reluctantly. Eight months later he calls it "the good chair" and gets mildly territorial when guests head for it first.
What makes it work is not what photographs well — it's what the chair does to the room around it. Our living room had all the right furniture before and somehow still felt like nobody had made a decision. The Horse Chair is a decision. It sits in the northeast corner with a floor lamp behind it and every person who comes to our flat gravitates there within twenty minutes.
It arrived from Shopps.in in 9 days to Hyderabad. The packaging was a wooden crate — not cardboard with some bubble wrap — and the chair itself came out with zero damage to the finish. Shopps.in WhatsApp was responsive when I had a query about installation the same evening it arrived.
✓ What worked
Changed the living room's personality overnight. Construction quality noticeably above price point. Wooden crate packaging — nothing damaged. 9-day delivery to Hyderabad.
△ Worth knowing
Heavy — needs two people to position. Budget 80×80cm floor space. Not the chair for a small room; it needs breathing room to read correctly.
Win #2 · Solaris Dining Chair · ₹23,000
was ₹33,000
Solaris Dining Chair — The Redemption Purchase
After the ₹46,000 Instagram dining chair disaster, I ordered the Solaris Dining Chair with a different checklist. I sat in one at a friend's home in Jubilee Hills before ordering — she'd had them for six months and they were still comfortable at the two-hour mark. That was the real test. The foam hadn't compressed visibly. The warm finish under her dining room's afternoon light was exactly what I wanted for our space.
We bought two — one for the head position at our dining table and one as the reading chair in our bedroom. Both are used daily and both are holding their shape. The back height hits the right lumbar position for Siddharth who is 180cm and for me at 163cm, which is unusual for a chair that wasn't custom-made for either of us.
✓ What worked
Comfortable at 2+ hours. Foam holding its shape at 8 months. Warm finish is beautiful in Hyderabad afternoon light. Works as dining chair AND bedroom reading chair.
△ Worth knowing
Warm tone — pairs better with ivory/cream/wooden table surfaces than cool grey marble. Check your table colour before ordering.
Win #3 · Banquet Chairs × 4 · ₹67,200
₹16,800 each
Banquet Chairs — Four of Them, Zero Regrets
My mother-in-law was skeptical when I said I was buying "banquet chairs" for the dining table. The word has a bad reputation in Indian households for the reasons you're thinking of: corporate events, plastic tubes, flimsy folding structures. These are none of those things. Four of them around the dining table look considered and intentional; the construction is genuinely solid and they've held up through Ugadi, two birthday dinners, and the Sunday lunches that run past 3pm.
The per-chair math works out: ₹16,800 each for chairs that look right and function properly is a different category of purchase than ₹5,000 chairs that look apologetic or ₹40,000 chairs that photograph well but fail under real use. These sit in the middle where I want dining chair money to go.
✓ What worked
Structurally solid 8 months in. Easy-clean surface handles curry spills. Look intentional in a set of four. Free delivery to Hyderabad in 8 days.
△ Worth knowing
Buy at least four at once — individual banquet chairs look odd. A set of four or six reads as a deliberate dining room decision.
Win #4 · Studio Chair · ₹31,900
was ₹61,900
Studio Chair — The Quiet One That Does Everything
I bought the Studio Chair because my home office had a folding chair in it and I was embarrassed every time I had a video call. The Studio Chair is in the bedroom corner now — it has migrated from the office to become the reading chair, the "pile of clothes that haven't found a wardrobe home yet" chair, and occasionally the third person's seat when two people are already on the bed watching something.
It doesn't have the Horse Chair's personality or the Solaris's warmth. It is simply a well-made, correctly proportioned chair that looks right in whatever room you put it and is comfortable enough that you don't think about it while you're sitting in it. That quality — the quality of furniture you stop noticing because it does its job without complaint — is underrated and harder to achieve than it looks.
✓ What worked
Adapts to every room and context without needing anything adjusted. Comfortable for 1–2 hour sitting sessions. 48% off made the decision easy.
△ Worth knowing
Not a statement piece — nobody photographs it. Buy it when you need a good chair that works, not when you need a chair that turns heads.
All 6 Purchases — The Full Score
Horse Chair
₹57,900
✅ Buy again
Solaris Dining Chair ×2
₹46,000
✅ Buy again
Banquet Chairs ×4
₹67,200
✅ Buy again
Studio Chair
₹31,900
✅ Buy again
Swivel Bar Chairs (wrong height)
₹27,990
❌ Measurement error
Instagram dining chairs (other retailer)
₹46,000
❌ Wrong foam density
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Three Questions I Wish Someone Had Answered Before I Started
Q
What is the single most important thing to check before buying a bar stool online?
A
Measure your counter height from floor to surface before you look at a single product. For 90–95cm islands: choose seat height 65–70cm. For 75–85cm surfaces: choose 55–60cm. This is the one number that determines whether your bar stool works or gathers dust. I learned this the expensive way.
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How do you evaluate a dining chair's foam quality when you can't sit in it before buying?
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Ask the retailer directly: what is the foam density in kg/m³? Anything below 30 kg/m³ will compress noticeably within a year of daily use. 35 kg/m³ is the minimum for a dining chair you expect to last. Also: look for brands that show production quality details rather than just lifestyle photography. If the product images are all empty-room shots with no person sitting in them, ask why. Shopps.in's WhatsApp team answered this question for me before I placed the Solaris order.
Q
Is the Horse Chair actually worth ₹57,900 or is it just Instagram furniture?
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It's not Instagram furniture. The construction quality holds up to real daily use — we've had ours for eight months and the finish is unchanged, the structural integrity is unchanged, and it still looks as intentional as it did on day one. Whether it's worth ₹57,900 depends on what you're comparing it to. Compared to ₹15,000 occasional chairs that feel like excuses, yes absolutely. Compared to nothing in that corner, yes absolutely. It is not the right purchase for a room that doesn't have space for it to breathe or a home that doesn't yet have its foundational furniture sorted.
What Readers Have Said
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Rohan S. · Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
3 weeks ago
The bar stool height warning saved me. I was about to order the Swivel Bar Chairs for an 87cm island. Measured after reading this, found the Counter Stool instead. Arrived in 8 days to Hyderabad and the height is exactly right. Thank you for putting the mistake in the headline — I clicked specifically because of it.
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Pooja R. · Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
5 weeks ago
We have the Solaris dining chairs for four months now. Everything you said about the afternoon light quality is true — it's one of those things that sounds excessive until you live with it. The foam is holding its shape. Very happy with this purchase.
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Meghna T. · Interior Designer, Bangalore
6 weeks ago
I send this to clients now when they're about to order bar stools without measuring. The specific explanation of counter stool vs bar stool height ranges is clearer than anything I've found elsewhere in Indian home decor content. The foam density point about dining chairs is also something most buyers don't think to ask.
