If you are someone who enjoys relaxing on the patio on a fine day and are considering buying some garden furniture you would be wise to check out the latest selections of rattan garden furniture. Rattan patio furniture has come a long way in the recent years, you are no longer limited to traditional asian styles, you can now get a wide range of contemporary styles in a variety of shapes, colors, materials and sets to suit all your needs.
Traditionally, rattan furniture has been made from a natural rattan vine grown in SE Asia. Although environmentally friendly, the vine is difficult to style as it has to be heated to become workable and would fix in position as soon as it cooled. This led to a narrow band of styles of furniture that required great craftsmanship to produce and being a natural material the material could deteriorate if left out in damp conditions over winter months. The net result was a relatively expensive furniture set with potentially limited durability.
Modern developments have countered these drawbacks, now it is possible to get a wide range of synthetic rattan garden furniture that is ideally suited to outdoor use and requires little in the way of maintenance. The use of recycled plastics has opened up the market for synthetic rattan. Essentially this is rattan weave garden furniture made from polyester strand bound together to simulate natural rattan vine. Being man made plastic ensures durability and cuts down risk of mold, improves workability allowing for the introduction of styles of furniture that would not be possible with natural rattan, keeps prices low as the furniture can be made anywhere on the planet and opens up color options.
If you are looking at rattan outdoor furniture you’ll notice you can now get rattan ‘cube’ furniture. This is usually a table set that will store down into a cube to allow for easy covering over winter months. Sets come in all sorts of funky or traditional shapes of cube and all generally have various color options and optional cover sets for winter storage. If you are a traditionalist or have conservative taste you can still opt for colonial style of rattan furniture made from the new weaves to enjoy benefits they bring or you opt for real rattan, just be careful not to leave the furniture in the damp.
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