I would not give up on a dream. You can take the chair back and find something that will fit.

Thanks.

Dionne, you are so cute and a great writer! I had Salvation Army come and take my couches out of my house, and the guy could not figure how to get it out my front door, got hot under the collar when I told him to wedge and turn it just so....and it was obvious he was agitated. I said no problem, just put it back. I gave it to the worker in my town home area, and he came up and wiggled it through just fine.... Turn it slightly, just so.... I'm sure they can wedge it through somehow. Or perhaps they can put some towels on the side of it and shove it through.... Do you have a picture of the doorway and the chair?

I added pictures of the chair from the website as well photos of the door opening and the trim where there's evidence of past failed attempts with the feet attached :-(

Can you remove the feet?

Yes, the handyman figured out how to remove the feet but the side frame or "ear" appears to be the barrier.

Can you bring the chair in through a window? We recently had to move two very large desks and bookcases out of a couple of rooms while we remodeled them. The easiest method, by far, was to pop the windows out of their frames and slide the furniture right through.

No the window is on the second floor above an arch. I would be quite nervous about major damage but thanks for the suggestion.

Personally, I think you were saved. The back/arm height /length of that chair has no possible way to fit through that 30" entry. But it has nothing to do with glam, anyway, and a chair and a half is a useless waste of space and becomes seating for ONE.. Get a LOW ARM chaise, or chair and ottoman. That looks uncomfortable as all hell . I don't see what "Disney" has to do with girly glam spaces either. Get a Disney pillow......you hardly need the chair it was sitting on in the store. Call it the mitzvah it actually IS : )

I agree that chair does not have anything to do with glam. The glam will come in with a knockout chandelier, artwork, pillows, throws, other accessories and of course the furniture.

IMO chair and1/2 chairs are the silliest thing to come along in furniture , return the chair and get something smaller . Glam comes as mentioned from many things and Disney does not come to mind.

oh, people! telling someone their fantasy chair is not YOUR definition of a fantasy chair is like telling mrs. grey that spanking isnt fun.

i'm afraid you'll need a different chair because this one doesnt fit.

Hello, thanks for your comments. The glam room was intended to be a fun room. I share a birthday and hometown with Walt Disney. When I was a single mom in medical school, my kids could watch a Disney movie while I studied without me worrying about the content. The world of Disney can be enjoyed by kids of all ages. This chair and I may part ways but I will always embrace the child in me who loves Disney.

@Dionne, how about having a custom couch/sofa made in velvet or your fabric of choice? You can give them exact design and details and they'll make something perfect for you, in the shape you want or whatever fun details you dream up. It will be exactly what you want.

Then to the room, add a cute chandelier, gorgeous pillows and framed photos of your adventures, kids sitting in the room while you were studying (hopefully you snapped a few), etc. Create the fun Disney ambiance and do what you love....

I'm guessing you may live in the LA/OC area? I have this company bookmarked for future reference but haven't used them....

www.monarchsofas.com

Hi Dionne,

Fun chair for a fun room!

Can you go in a completely opposite direction?

Make your sons room your bedroom (or whatever) and make the glam room one of your rooms that your chair will fit in? Flip-flop?

Gosh.....Simple to say in the initial post:

'The glam room was intended to be a fun room. I share a birthday and hometown with Walt Disney'

Who Knew!!

Shirlpp, you’re right I could have mentioned why I chose the chair in my original post. However, this my first experience with this site and I didn’t anticipate the focus on my choice of chair rather than my question about fit. You live and learn. #firstworldproblems

Dionne...No problem......You are getting wonderful advice now.

If that particular chair makes you happy and you know the brand of doors you have, you could buy a matching 32" prehung door and hire a carpenter to install it.

Dionne, you're quite a writer! Enjoyed reading your story so much. I think yes, the universe is sending you a message that it wasn't meant to be :). Just this particular one...Can you look for a chair in a fun color? I have a fuschia chair in my master bath. Got it for my makeup counter. The amount of time I sat in it: zero! I have two young children who wake up at the crack of dawn...Don't have much time for makeup. But I'm hopeful that one day I will use it :).

Jan Moyer, oy, I think you confused mitzvah with mazel?! Mitzvah-commandment, mazel-luck. Source: I'm an Ashkenazi Jew.

Yes, they did.

Stand it on its side, put the high back in the doorway, pivot, roll-slide toward the center of the room.

Jan Moyer,

In March, I looked at a makeup table similar to the one you suggested.

In the spirit of just going for broke, I saw this chandelier at a salon once. Apparently, it’s sold on Canal street in NYC. Perhaps someday I will find a similar chandelier.

Have you seen these, Dionne? Beware that they are acrylic.

https://www.amazon.com/Original-Gypsy-Color-Chandelier-Crystals/dp/B075NKZZPT?th=1

Whatever you like is what you should get. However, that is not the problem. As you said in your original question, it is a problem of physics. The chair is just too big. Next time you order a piece of furniture, make sure you measure every doorway, hallway, wall, etc. to make sure it will fit. Not only width and length, but height as well. Better yet, do a plan for the whole room, so you know what pieces you need for the way you want to use the room. Then when you go shopping you know the dimensions. If you don't know how to do a plan to scale, go online for instructions or hire a decorator who will do that for you. Ethan Allen provides that service as a courtesy to customers. Good luck with your glam project!

You can't "pivot" 30 inches through anything less than 30 1/8 inches. No matter which way you turn it, girls : ) It's physics and back it goes. Has happened to me once in 27 years, and thank God my own sister, and not a "real" client. " If the glove doesn't fit , you must..... ahhhh ......QUIT"

Oh man, talk to me about narrow staircases and doorways in old Philadelphia townhouses! Every piece gets measured and specced before coming in, and sometimes we still have to do something dire! (disassembling a new W/D to get it into the basement? yes indeed!!)

"You can't "pivot" 30 inches through anything less than 30 1/8 inches."

30 1/8" which she has, since she removed the doorframe. And the 30" deep chair is much shorter than that in height; turned on end, the slimmer dimension might squeeze through because the cushioned edges on the front of the chair and the top of the chair back have more give than the wood on the frame.

my daughter lives in back bay boston... narrow doors, stairs, etc. crate & barrel sends someone over to measure the whole path before they let you special order large pieces.

they said it would fit, and it did. : )

but our mover had to do this to get a double box spring up to the 3rd floor of our 150 year old house. the twisty stairs just were too....twisty.

indigoheaven - she responded to the window a few days ago:

No the window is on the second floor above an arch. I would be quite nervous about major damage but thanks for the suggestion.

Lindsay

Ethan Allen delivers furniture every single day!! Short of chopping a hole in the wall they will get something IN before they haul it back. A "skosh" isn't just a "skosh". It means a go or no go. In this case, the latter.

FYI to the rest: the back height, ceiling height, arm height, length, hallway turns. landings, elevators. It all matters. Thousands of items delivered successfully and only ONE fail in more than two decades for me? That single time/fail will reinforce the physics. It's not the last seating piece on the planet. My sister had to get the apt size and wait six weeks. : )