There are many trends to consider when throwing yourself into creating and transforming your outdoor living space. First things first, ensuring you do your research is important and setting a budget is key as completely changing your outdoor living space can be costly if you don’t budget set and buy from the right places. Sourcing the best sites can be tricky but looking at the products available at Two Wests they have a beautiful display of outdoor living products that are perfect for the task at hand.
Outdoor Living Room
The outdoor living room trend has taken off over the last year, giving your house room to grow by creating a living space outside. You’ve essentially been able to extend your home without paying for construction. If you’ve got outdoor plugs, you can certainly utilise this to bring in the heating and lighting element of a living space so you can use your outdoor living room all day long. Looking into the products for an outdoor living room a fantastic place to start is ensuring you have the right seating arrangement. Are you looking for a comfortable dining set or are you more of an outdoor sofa and comfortable chairs sort of individual? Assess the space and decide what you’re looking for.
Seating
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Your outdoor living seating is a beautiful way of building textures and layers to your garden space. Depending on what you’re looking for you can utilise both comfort and ease of use in one by purchasing something like an Arbour, you can make a beautiful statement corner with shaded seating and the additional comfort of styling with cushions and throws. If something more practical is ideal for your outdoor living space you could consider a beautiful dining set, perhaps with an integrated fire pit and or ice bucket to add to your garden experience.
Accessories
Accessorising your outdoor space is key to going from garden to outdoor living. To break up the outdoor setting you could include a large neutral patterned outdoor rug to place your furniture around, including some rattan foot stools, throws and outdoor wicker lanterns for some definition and texture. Creating your outdoor living space with these beautiful elements has never been easier and you can continue to take your relaxing from the inside out.
Lighting
Adding lighting elements throughout your outdoor space allows you to get full use of outdoor living from morning to night. One idea would be to add outdoor lanterns of different sizing for a little pop of light around the seating area, followed by some fairy lighting in the bushes to make your shrubbery twinkle into the evening. It would be appropriate to consider a main source of lighting, for example attached to the outside of your property that is activated via both an on of switch and sensor for added security through the night.
Heating
The addition of heating, particularly in the UK, is extremely beneficial when we’re not lucky enough to benefit from the heat staying around all evening and cooler air temperatures. Looking into a tabletop heater is a perfect way to heat your outdoor space in the evening so you can remain cosy and enjoy the relaxing element of your outdoor living. The added benefit of this being portable, so you can move this around to suit your various needs.
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