Budget-friendly mis-matched chairs can make a real style statement

Make a style statement out of your mismatched, odds and ends of dining chairs, suggests Carol O’Callaghan.

Mis-matching chairs around a dining or kitchen table used to be a characteristic of having your own place for the first time.

The look, born out of being too broke after taking on a mortgage to buy anything new, meant relying on the kindness of elder lemons to donate unwanted furnishings to get you started on your home-making adventure.