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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Thea Babington-Stitt

How to choose outdoor furniture for your garden or patio – experts reveal the 7 things to look out for when shopping for garden furniture

A garden with a rattan hanging egg chair and a matching side table.

Even if you are a skilled shopper and decorator when it comes to your home’s interiors, deciding on furniture for your garden or patio presents a whole new set of boxes to tick, as well as challenges one needs to be aware of. But our checklist for how to choose outdoor furniture will get you covered.

A new set of dimensions, your style and the outdoor environment and weather conditions that will have an effect on the pieces are just a few factors that you’ll need to consider and which will determine what the best garden furniture for your outdoor space might be.

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