If you are footing it to your local furniture store to look for your wood rocking chair, you may not be able to find a huge selection of styles out there.
Online is a different story as you will be able to search among a plethora of styles and colors available.
I can pretty much guarantee that you will find just the right one that suits your taste using this method.
Consider The Following Items Before Purchasing Your Rocking Chair Know where you are going to be placing this wooden rocker.
Be it in the study, baby's room or even the beach, wherever you intend to place your rocker, just be sure that you have allotted enough space in which to rock back and forth in.
If you are like me and do not want to spend hours putting together your chair or painting it, you should purchase one with the least amount of assembly required and one that comes primed and painted.
You could purchase one that is fully assembled when it comes to the door but you will be sure to have paid more for that.
Most rockers come with very little assembly required so I recommend - go that route instead.
Size is also a consideration.
If the chair is for a child, you have to consider what would be the most convenient size that would be appropriate for the child to use.
Consider that child rockers are usually passed down to the next generation long after the child grows out of it, becomes and adult and has children of their own so it does not go to waste.
Speaking of size, it would be wise to consider height, even for adults.
Certain styles are lower to the ground compared to other rocking chairs.
Shorter people will be more comfortable in one of these than those where their feet dangle off the ground.
There are a lot of options available from companies that create and design them and you have access to most of the options online.
That is where I found my favorite.
It is a solid wood rocking chair that I enjoy outside, on my patio.