Childs Armchair

Child’s Foam Armchair for Children’s Upholstered Seating

This child’s foam armchair provides a ready-shaped furniture base for creating an individual piece of children’s upholstered seating.

Designed for upholsterers, furniture makers, soft furnishing workrooms and customers creating their own children’s furniture, the foam armchair can be finished with a suitable loose or slip-on cover in the fabric, vinyl, colour or pattern required.

Its compact dimensions make it particularly useful for playrooms, nurseries, bedrooms, reading corners and other child-focused spaces where a small single-seat chair is more practical than a larger sofa.

Two construction styles are available: a reconstituted foam armchair with a reinforced back and a shaped V33 Blue upholstery foam version.

Product Specification

Style 1 – Reconstituted Foam Armchair

• Approx. 20″ wide
• Approx. 15″ deep
• Approx. 20″ high
• Seat area approx. 14″ × 12″
• Manufactured from reconstituted foam
• Reinforced back
• Compact single-seat children’s chair
• Designed for covering

Style 2 – V33 Blue Foam Armchair

• Manufactured from V33 Blue upholstery foam
• Similar overall proportions to Style 1
• Slightly wider due to the shaped arms and back
• More sculpted chair profile
• Designed for covering

What Is a Child’s Foam Armchair?

A child’s foam armchair is a pre-shaped foam furniture form that provides the main seat, back and arm structure of a small chair.

Instead of cutting and assembling several pieces of upholstery foam to create the furniture yourself, the main armchair shape is already formed and ready to be covered.

This makes it useful for:

• Children’s foam chairs
• Playroom seating
• Nursery seating
• Bedroom chairs
• Reading corner seating
• Kids soft seating
• Bespoke children’s furniture
• Upholstery workshops
• Furniture makers
• Soft furnishing projects

Children’s Foam Chair for Playrooms and Bedrooms

The compact proportions make this children’s foam chair particularly useful where a full-sized armchair would be unnecessarily large.

It can be incorporated into:

• Playrooms
• Children’s bedrooms
• Reading corners
• Nurseries
• Family rooms
• Soft seating areas
• Child-focused interiors

The finished appearance is determined by the covering material, allowing the same foam chair form to be adapted to a wide range of interior schemes.

Two Child’s Armchair Styles

Style 1 – Reconstituted Foam with Reinforced Back

Style 1 measures approximately 20″ wide × 15″ deep × 20″ high, with a seat approximately 14″ wide × 12″ deep.

It is manufactured from reconstituted foam and includes a reinforced back.

Reconstituted foam is produced from polyurethane foam pieces that are processed and bonded together to create a dense, firm material.

This gives Style 1 a substantial underlying furniture form suitable for customers wanting a straightforward compact child-sized chair.

Style 2 – Shaped V33 Blue Foam

Style 2 is manufactured from V33 Blue upholstery foam.

Its overall measurements are similar to Style 1, although the shaped arms and back make the chair slightly wider.

The shaped construction gives Style 2 a more sculpted armchair profile and provides an alternative to the denser reconstituted foam version.

Reconstituted Foam or V33 Blue Foam?

The two armchair styles provide different constructions and finished shapes.

Choose Style 1 – Reconstituted Foam when you want:

• Dense foam construction
• Reinforced back
• Straightforward compact armchair profile
• Approx. 20″ overall width
• Firm underlying furniture form

Choose Style 2 – V33 Blue Foam when you want:

• Conventional upholstery foam construction
• Shaped arms
• Shaped back
• A more sculpted chair profile
• Slightly greater overall width

The best option will depend on the desired appearance and how the finished chair is to be upholstered.

Ready-Shaped Foam Chair for Covering

The foam armchair provides the underlying chair shape rather than the finished upholstered product.

A suitable cover can then be made to suit the required room, colour scheme or customer specification.

Cover options may include:

• Upholstery fabric
• Upholstery vinyl
• Plain colours
• Patterned fabrics
• Contrasting piping
• Removable zipped covers
• Simple slip-on covers

Browse Vinyl & Fabric for suitable covering materials.

Making a Cover for a Child’s Foam Chair

Accurate measurement is important when manufacturing a cover, particularly because Style 1 and Style 2 have different profiles.

Depending on the cover design, you may need:

• Upholstery fabric or vinyl
• Sewing thread
• Zip chain and sliders
• Piping cord
• Hook and loop tape

Browse Sewing Threads for cover manufacture.

Use Upholstery Zips, Zip Chain & Sliders where a removable cover is required.

For decorative or reinforced piped seams, browse Piping Cords.

Measure the actual foam chair before cutting final fabric panels, especially when covering Style 2 with its shaped arms and back.

Child’s Foam Armchair or 2 Seater Sofa?

Choose the child’s foam armchair when you need:

• Individual seating
• A compact footprint
• A bedroom or reading chair
• A matching chair to accompany a larger sofa
• Seating for smaller spaces

Choose the Child’s 2 Seater Foam Sofa when:

• Two-seat children’s furniture is required
• More seating width is available
• A sofa format better suits the room
• You want a larger centrepiece within a children’s seating area

Child’s Armchair or 3 Seater Sofa?

For larger children’s seating areas, the Child’s 3 Seater Foam Sofa provides significantly more seating width.

The armchair is better suited to:

• Individual seating
• Reading corners
• Compact spaces
• Matching sofa-and-chair arrangements

The 3 seater is better suited where multiple seating positions and a larger furniture form are required.

All three products sit within Livedale’s Children’s Furniture range.

Create a Matching Children’s Furniture Set

The armchair can also be combined with one or both children’s foam sofas to create a coordinated seating arrangement.

Available matching formats include:

• Child’s foam armchair
• Child’s 2 seater foam sofa
• Child’s 3 seater foam sofa

Using the same upholstery fabric or vinyl across several pieces can create a coordinated suite for a playroom, nursery, bedroom or other children’s seating space.

Alternatively, contrasting fabrics can be used to create individual pieces while retaining the same overall furniture style.

Child-Sized Foam Chair for Upholsterers and Furniture Makers

For professional upholsterers and furniture makers, purchasing the chair already shaped can simplify the manufacturing process.

Rather than cutting and assembling the complete foam structure, the workroom can concentrate on:

• Cover design
• Pattern preparation
• Fabric selection
• Cutting
• Sewing
• Piping
• Zip placement
• Final fitting

This makes the chair a practical starting point for bespoke children’s upholstered furniture.

Need Bespoke Foam Instead?

The Child’s Foam Armchair is designed for customers who want a ready-shaped furniture form.

If your project requires different dimensions, a different seat shape or completely bespoke furniture components, use Foam Cut to Size.

Livedale can cut upholstery foam for:

• Bespoke seating
• Furniture
• Cushions
• Benches
• Upholstery projects
• Custom foam shapes

Furniture makers who prefer to fabricate their own foam components can also browse Foam Sheets.

Children’s Foam Furniture Range

The Child’s Foam Armchair forms part of Livedale’s dedicated Children’s Furniture range.

The collection includes:

• Child’s Foam Armchair
• Child’s 2 Seater Foam Sofa
• Child’s 3 Seater Foam Sofa

This makes it easy to select the furniture format according to available space or combine several pieces to create a complete children’s seating area.

For bespoke foam components, visit Foam Cut to Size.

For covering materials, browse Vinyl & Fabric.

For help choosing the right children’s foam furniture or upholstery foam for your project, contact Livedale.