'Tis the season for rattan and wicker – from fruit bowls to outdoor sofas, these are the affordable pieces I am picking up to give every room a touch of rustic charm

Living room with large windows, a dark rug, orange couch, cream armchair and rattan chair .

Rattan and wicker are far too timeless to call a trend, they've been around for decades in various forms (my first experience was an inherited Lloyd Loom chair), but they do seem to be having a particularly trendy resurgence right now.

Look at any 'new in' section of all the most popular homeware brands (Anthropologie, Lulu & Georgia, Magnolia to name a few) and you will find some form of wicker or rattan decor right up top. And big designers are decorating with rattan too – two of my favourite designers right now, Cortney Bishop and Heidi Caillier, have both featured the materials in projects they have shared recently.