Graco High Chair-Windsor Review

Love, love, love this high chair! Its super durable, has a great 5 point harness & folds up in a snap. I can actually get the chair to fold up for storage using one hand...which one could understand is a blessing when you have a baby in the other hand!

Little by little this chair has won me over.

The Graco DoubleTray Highchair comes in many styles and patterns. Ours is a different pattern than the one thats pictured, however the design is the same. They appear to be releasing many different models of the double tray in different years, but most have many common features- so I'm assuming the only difference is the chair padding/pattern you want to pick.

Besides the basic color and pattern, ours still has the same basic shape. It provides good support, and I am able to drag it around the house (even without the wheels) with both the baby in it or by itself, and it never scratches my hardwood floors. It is more difficult to drag over carpeting. The wheels have a locking & unlocking feature which is great for anyone who plans to use this high chair on hardwood or tile flooring. My old high chair used to move back and forth slightly & made a huge mess of the hardwood floors in my kitchen because of all the scratching. I ended up having to refinish my floors because I couldnt stand the four scratch marks permanintly etched in the wood from a happy bouncing baby who wanted to get out of her seat! Lesson learned... I'd buy this seat anyday over the old models just to save the floor! Long and short, the chair rolls over the floor with ease- doesnt scratch your floors, can sit with wheels locked or unlocked (for those nights when you try to cook dinner & feed the baby at the same time)- I just wheel her around the kitchen with me! This Graco highchair comes with 6 different reclining positions, though we have used only 2 positions mostly, partly reclining when our baby first starting eating, and now at 15 months, we use the straight forward position. It also has the ability to adjust in height, though ours often stays the same height since we generally feed him at the dinner table, or at hip level.
 

Another great thing about this high chair are the trays. I really enjoy the double tray feature. It comes with a small white"built in" tray that just has a little wide dish it in, shaped much like an oversized banana. It is not very wide or long, and so it is easy to sit yourself close to the baby to feed, while still giving you the security of having a tray there. Once our baby grew older and was able to begin to self-feed, the additional, bigger tray needed to be used. They're also easy to clean. Our Double Tray has 2 upraised areas just out of the baby's immediate reach that can hold food. We typically will place crackers there that we may want her to eat later. It also has an area for a cup holder, though she will often remove the cup placed there in order to put food she does not want to eat inside. The tray comes with a One Touch feature that has a button to press in the front of the tray to be able to remove the tray with one hand. Truthfully it took me awhile to seem to work this feature and often resort to the "old fashioned" method of pulling on both sides; but once I got the hang of it, its super easy & convienient.. My husband however does not have any problems using the one touch feature.

The highchair has a 5 point harness with straps that secure the baby into the chair, along with a T bar (pieces that goes between the child's legs so they can't slide out). I had wondered why this all is needed for a highchair, and it seemed to me a lap strap and T bar would work fine*. Then I used another highchair, with just a lap belt, and while I felt secure with the tray on, I could see my daughter trying to wiggle out of the lap belt. The straps, while they work well and keep the baby secure, often get dirty and covered in food. I have to scrub them daily, and completely remove them to put in the washer every few weeks.

The cute, decorate cloth padding worked well when we first began feeding the baby. It is removable and washes well. Once she began self feeding however, we had to remove the cloth padding and use the lightly padding blue vinyl padding underneath. It wipes down well, and can be lifted on the sides to wipe off any food that may have fallen in between the padding and the plastic part of the chair. This vinyl padding is able to be removed (it hooks on to the underside of the highchair) and I removed it completely about once a month to clean the entire chair.

Overall, I am very pleased with this not expected, not researched purchase. I would recommend this chair and the Double Tray feature to many parents wanting to find a reasonably priced, durable highchair for their family. I think its convience & easiness to use pays for its self, but when I found it didnt ruin my floors- boy, did I wish I purchased it sooner & saved myself the trouble. I didnt think that the chair was wildly expensive compared to other models. We paid about $120.00 for ours & I think we'll be able to use it with all of our other children- so it was well worth the money.