After reading several reviews that the chair was smaller than expected, I measured the chair that I was replacing and the width was the same, so I was not concerned.  However when I received the chairs and sitting in them I thought it odd that they seemed so much narrower, I thought at first I had just measured wrong but I had not.  The chairs are 3 inches narrower than the stated measurements.  They said it was 34 inches and it is only 31 inches and that is from outside edge to outside edge.  This chair is not going to hold up in a high use area but will be fine as a bedroom chair.