Folding chairs as wall art

Oddly enough I saw this option at a hospital! While my husband was recovering from his heart by-pass surgery I spent a lot of time in his hospital room. If you haven't been in one of late, let me tell you there is never enough room for everything that gets crammed into it. There's the bed, all the electronics and support equipment (including a computer for linking to the hospital wide records system), a day bed for the relatives to crash on, a arm chair for the patient, a bed table for the patient's water and meals, and miscellaneous other necessities. So there isn't much space for extras, like seating for yet more visitors. Their solution was to have nice looking folding chairs which they simply hung on the wall.

The chairs stay out of the way of the nurses, aids and primary visitors but it's easy to grab them if more visitors suddenly need to be accommodated.

I could see this working in an apartment as long as you got the nicest looking folding chairs available. Or you could even make colorful fabric frames to cover each one. That way you have color on your walls and get your extra chairs out of the way.