East Coast Folding Highchair

I first found this high chair when my son was 18 months and I was pregnant with my second. I never really like either of the high chairs that I had for my son as they weren't very safe yet they took up so much room when they were out. I saw this first at a pub and was so impressed that I made a not of the make and looked it up online when I got home.

It's a wooden high chair made of lacquered rubber wood. It can be found in John Lewis and probably Mothercare for about £70. It is very sturdy when out yet has a smaller overall footprint than many of the traditional high chairs. On the bottom of the feet is rubber which helped on my laminate floors and made it almost unmoveable by children either in or out of the chair.

The tray is small but I found it adequate and the biggest advantage for me was that the tray could be folded behind the chair so that the chair could sit right up to the table allowing children to really participate in family meal times.

The harness is a 5 point harness that can be unscrewed simply and then put in the wash when it gets grubby. This was another problem that I had found with many other high chairs! No more grubby harnesses!

I bought a simple basic insert from mothercare to make it more comfortable as it is all wood. This could obviously also be removed and cleaned. Making for an all over easy cleaning high chair.

The only problems I found were that you could not be too enthusiastic with cleaning (ie wire wool) as it ruined the lacquer and it was quiet heavy so moving it from room to room was a problem. I didn't have to do this too often so it didn't bother me.

All in all a very nice user friendly high chair which I was sad to see go when my daughter grew out of it.