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What is it with garden furniture? We spend hundreds of pounds on pieces of furniture only to use it for the 2 or 3 temperate evenings that the UK has in the summer. Then it gets left over winter, and never looks the same the next year, instead going for the rustic look. Maybe that is just me?

Maybe I should have researched what garden furniture is out there before impulse buying the first wooden set that looked good and would actually fit in my garden.  I am thinking that it would have been prudent for me to have gone for a plastic set, that way giving me protection against the weather and an easy wipe clean solution to muddy cat paws and spilt cider. However for all its ease of care, plastic garden furniture reminds me of cheap cafes by the beach, usually a bit sticky from Cornwall’s best vanilla ice cream. The other downside of plastic seats is the horrid sticking to the back of your legs in the summer, leaving you with big red marks across the back of your thighs making you look like you have had a fight with an octopus. Having said that, the range of colours that plastic garden furniture comes in, may be enough to sway even the wearers of the shortest shorts.

Whilst metal garden furniture looks amazing, it can need a higher budget. It does however appear to have a longer life and doesn’t need as much TLC as its wooden counterparts. Short wearers will need to exercise the same air of caution in the warmer sunnier months, as the metal seats could cause the same infliction as the plastic versions.

So that is why I settled for a wooden set. I wanted to be able to sit down in the safe knowledge that I will not do myself an injury, I also did not want my garden looking reminiscent of an ice cream parlour. Only being able to choose from brown, dark brown or light brown was not an issue, I prefer the natural look for my garden anyway.

All in all who would have thought that so much thought could go into the purchase of garden furniture.

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