Inspiring as they are easy to live with and designed to brighten up your home in the blink of an eye at the best possible price, here are 7 ways to inject hot hues into your garden furnishings.
Colour transforms an outside space, no matter how small. Inject it into balconies, terraces, patios and expansive green spaces.
Here are 7 simple ways to work it.
Liven up your terrace.
Liven up your terrace with the Velrose garden chair.
The low-set seat features two colourful mid-century inspired woven resin options.
Its iron frame has an epoxy resin coating.
Part of its Les Irrésistibles collection, each seat costs €304.99, ex delivery, from La Redoute. The woven resin also features in the acacia wood Briana sun lounger, the lead image in this story.
It comes in two colourways and costs €406.99, reduced from €500, also from La Redoute.
Saturated shades
Yves Saint Laurent was the first to match carnation red with watermelon pink, previously considered clashing colours.
Now Sophie Robinson has executed a similar masterclass in a simple chevron rattan weave drum-shaped side table.
Available only from NI or UK Dunelm stores, you can buy at the Boucher Road superstore in Belfast. Expect to pay about €76.
Light show
The mesh design of Ikea’s Solvinden range offers both a modern feel and a diffused light that is flattering to all those gathered.
The lamp comes in three options: a 39 cm floor size that costs €19; a 26 cm standard lamp size, €15; and an 18 cm tall table size, €7.
These lights can be used indoors and outside and are charged via a USB-C cable.
Multitasking magic
Maximise your garden's potential with the Abel rust brown modular set.
Designed for outdoor versatility, this six-seater suite features four interchangeable sections, allowing you to customise the layout from two three-seat benches for dinner al fresco to an L-shaped sofa for coffee and digestifs after.
The dining table can also be contracted to coffee table height. Including shower-proof cushions, it costs €1,985 from Next.ie.
Cover me
Protect snacks, picky bits and even drinks from uninvited guests with this woven rattan tray and cover by Carolyn Donnolly for Dunnes Stores.
It brings a flourish of drama to grazing, costs €30 and will let you nod off in peace in the early summer sun.
Shadow play after dark
Standing 23cm high, this portable solar lantern brings a warm glow to outdoor spaces with its built-in LED lights.
Sunlight charges the battery by day, and the stored energy powers it after dark, with its duration varying based on sunlight exposure.
The natural-coloured, woven faux-bamboo form also casts lovely shadows. It costs €12 from Dunnes Stores.
Tropical tastes
Bring a toes-in-the-sand spirit to the suburbs with this Farm Rio x Anthropologie collaboration.
These melamine dinner plates come in three pattern options: a dark yellow pineapple print, a birds and berries melange and the birds of paradise on the sky blue background, shown.
Each plate costs €12 from the Belfast store.
