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Choosing garden furniture comes down partly to individual style and what feels comfortable to you. Take a few pointers from the way you have styled your house. Treat the garden as another room, bringing some of the same colours, textures and materials outside can create a lovely sense of flow between the two spaces. It isn't only about how furniture looks either. The way it feels matters: the warmth of timber, the softness of outdoor fabric, the texture of a woven seat or the smooth finish o …

Choosing garden furniture depends on your individual style and what feels comfortable, but before you get too far into materials, colours or individual pieces, I think the first question is much simpler: how do I actually use this space? What am I not getting from it now? Whatever your budget, garden furniture is an investment for you, so it is worth thinking about how you want to live with it rather than simply what looks good in a photograph. You do not need to arrive with all these answer …

This can be a tricky but necessary subject to discuss with clients, as nobody wants to feel like they’re choosing the wrong thing, especially when it’s something they love the look of. I completely understand this because, like most of us, I’m drawn to things because they’re beautiful first. If something doesn’t catch my eye, I’m not interested, no matter how practical it claims to be. But after years of observing how people live with and use their gardens …