When you're choosing chairs to go with your new dining table, you run the risk of an interior design phenomenon I refer to as 'chair jumble'. It can occur when you're trying to squeeze too many chairs around a table, and especially with round or oval tables where it isn't so clearly obvious how many chairs it should have.
The problem it causes is more visual than practical, though you should really allow for a certain amount of elbow room per chair anyway in a dining room. Suddenly your dining table looks busy – and endless sea of chair arms and legs so that you lose the beauty of both your carefully selected dining chairs and even your dining table behind this inscrutable wall of furniture.
