How to choose garden furniture?

Market garden furniture with each passing year more and more fully saturated with products, both domestic and foreign manufacturers. In this article we will try to figure out how to choose the right garden furniture and what model to buy.

Let's start with the manufacturers of their products in this market sector. The most prestigious and expensive is traditionally English, German, French, Finnish and garden furniture. However, because of high prices, demand, and sales are relatively small. Stable domestic demand is inexpensive, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Poland's garden furniture. Most often it is the traditional model: tables, chairs, cots, couches, rocking chairs. Unfortunately, this group of producers have not always been a stable level of quality and a wide range of products. Italian garden furniture is in high demand: it successfully blends exciting design, strength, durability and affordable price.
What are the requirements show buyers? First, the purely aesthetic, but, oddly enough, the beauty - the case of fashion. Secondly, of particular importance weight: it was he who determines whether we can bring the furniture in the house or put it in the garden once and for all. And finally, garden furniture should be sturdy, have no fear of climate change. Options on the market a lot, but the interests of the plastic and wicker furniture, so we pay them more attention.Plastic
The popularity of plastic furniture is easily explained: it is inexpensive and practical. In addition, plastic garden furniture is light, durable and is not afraid of rain. The technology of its manufacture (injection molding, the use of forged components) allowed successfully to replace traditional wooden chairs with elegant comfortable chairs.
Constant demand dinner and dessert tables, chairs. Best seller last season were 2-3-local plastic benches. In the last two or three years, gaining popularity, plastic folding chairs, convertible into couches. They are very comfortable sunbathing - lying down or reclining. Price varies and depends on the comfort, the availability of wheels for easy movement and, of course, the fame to the Russian market manufacturer.
But plastic has its drawbacks. For example, bleaching and destruction (expansion) in direct sunlight. This remark is valid for the cheap plastic variety, but some expensive grade of plastic resistant to UV radiation and do not burn. In addition, plastic - brittle material.Wicker Furniture
It is lightweight, extraordinary elegance, delicate and, most importantly, natural: in Russia, wicker furniture was always associated with warmth and coziness of a country house.
Today you can find a lot of variety of models of wicker furniture, which combine the old identity and modern design.
Patriotic Wicker furniture is made, usually of willow twigs of varying thickness and is a very complex products in design terms. Products from a rod can be divided into several types. First, the easiest to manufacture, consists of a frame, braided neoshkurennym thin wicker (diameter not exceeding 0,5 cm), which typically weave baskets - this is the cheapest version of the wicker furniture, but usually the most aesthetically unappealing and very short-lived. In most cases, this furniture without repairs will last only one season. Preferable option, when frame twist around oshkurennym and thicker rod - with a small increase in the price you get a durable product. In addition, these models are usually more attractive in appearance (unfortunately, there are exceptions).
And finally, closest to the traditional Russian school option - a frame made of a thick rod (2-4 cm in diameter), with delicate designs of the more subtle rod (1-2 cm), while weaving a thin rod is used only as a decorative element out there where the load on it the least. Naturally, the rod must be oshkurennym. Among these products meet and have great artistic value. It is also important that the rod was coated with varnish (usually use the furniture polish), as the rod when it is less polluted and becomes water-repellent properties (it prolongs the life of the product several times). Lacquer ware is easy to wash, have a more attractive appearance. Shopping for furniture, not hurt to ask the manufacturer, boil a vine: cooked with special technology vine bends without kinks, after drying, do not lose elasticity, to the same when cooked in vine kill fungal spores, which leads to rotting wood. While fully respecting the technology of harvesting and preparing the vines (including varnish after manufacture of the product), when used properly, wicker furniture can do a 20-30 or more years.And a few more tips


When buying ask the seller is a manufacturer of the Association of Russian folk crafts: most often it is the guarantee of technology and such products do not suffer from bad taste. In addition, you can ask extract the minutes of the artistic advisory council on approval of samples of products of folk crafts (NHP). Typically, the master trying to submit their designs in this Council, as the NHP products are not subject to VAT. The existence of this document speaks of the aesthetic value of such products. True, its absence can not denigrate the products that came to your taste, so as to receive it - it quite troublesome and long.
When buying a product (especially when it relates to chairs and tables) must ask him to try. He sat down in a chair, move it, squeeze the arms, sit. Do not be fooled some creaking and pohrustyvanie in this case - it's lacquer, caught between the bars. Fear must be sharp single sound - so usually break in two over-dried twigs. From such a product is better to refuse.
Despite its lightness and openwork, modern wicker furniture extremely reliable, rugged and durable. The basis of most of the production model is based on tradition and technology as the workpiece material, and of the weaving. But the scientific and technological progress brings its innovations in this sphere of production.
The use of modern technologies for processing (cooking) and bending wicker allows some manufacturers to design elements of wicker furniture is very complex shapes without compromising strength and reliability. Special originality and elegance gives it the use of a large number of circular elements. New technologies allow for the manufacture of load-bearing structural elements thick wicker with a minimum number of joints, which provides extraordinary strength and durability of these products.
The application of modern antiseptic and conformal coating preserves the natural wood color and allows you to use this furniture outdoors in gardens and parks. Created from natural materials, wicker furniture extraordinary blends harmoniously into the garden surroundings.What is more?
As a fashion victim is worth noting the combination of cast iron with wood: carcass - openwork cast iron, painted black or dark green color and the seats - natural wood.
Forged furniture taken infrequently, so the range of small, but it can be ordered from catalogs. Italian furniture is made of old-fashioned, but sometimes with modern elements: a table may be the glass surface, the chairs - wooden handles, etc. But some models are not designed for the garden, so watch when you choose.
Interestingly the use of openwork forged or welded steel structures for garden chairs, benches and tables. For corrosion protection and decoration of metal covered with 1-2-mm layer of plastic. This furniture is very elegant, but expensive.
Of metal garden furniture the most widely used sofas, rocking chairs with a tent for two to three people: comfortable for relaxing and very affordable. In selling a rather large assortment of rocking the production of Belarus, Russia and Italy.
We are well accustomed and sun umbrellas. Covered with polythene and leatherette umbrellas are inexpensive, but rush fast, fabric better, we need only look at the quality of the fabric when you buy - it must be strong.
Consumers with one voice say that if you have unprotected cottage, forged furniture will make a site with at once. People hard at looking at the legs when choosing garden furniture: they must be broadly based so as not to sink into the ground.Results
In fact, garden furniture - a rare phenomenon. Most often, furniture has a dual purpose: it can be used in the garden and home. But still at the garden furniture has its own charm, singularity. Keep this in mind when choosing furniture for the cottage.