How to Choose Your Lawn and Garden Furniture to Ensure a Lifetime of Pleasure

Upgrading your lawn and garden furniture can be a daunting task these days. The seemingly endless choices of materials, colours and designs are enough to make your head spin and that's just from the research you've done online.

Once out into the real world of garden centres, more choices crowd in to confuse and disorientate even the hardiest of shoppers. And to cap it all, you have to deal with the crowds of noisy children and stressed parents.

A good place to start is in the quiet of the garden you wish to furnish, with a notepad and pen. Here are some questions you should ask yourself - questions such as what sort of style do I want? What type of material should the garden furniture be made of? How much maintenance am I prepared to do? How long do I want the furniture to last?

For instance if you are looking for a contemporary look, have you considered white garden furniture or coloured, or perhaps you are going for a more traditional look with wood.

These days there is another alternative to wood, metal and plastic and that is the furniture made from recycled plastic "timber" - so real to the touch and to look at, you are hard-pressed to believe that it is not in fact made from "real" timber from a living tree!

Millions of plastic water, milk and soft drinks bottles are dumped in landfill sites every year, clogging up our world's eco-system. Taking these bottles and turning them into "timber" planks to be fashioned into stunning lawn and garden furniture offers everyone a win-win situation.

Beautiful lawn and garden furniture made from polywood gives you a lifetime of quality and durability. Unlike the usual green and white plastic chairs of old which constantly blow away in the mildest of gusts and become fragile after a few months of being exposed to the elements, these attractive and comfortable tables and chairs are impervious to the effects of the weather due to the manufacturing process.

I don't know about you, but one of the most important elements of my garden has to be beauty that is as easy to maintain as possible and that includes the furniture! Precious time spent oiling teak furniture to keep it in top condition is for me, wasted time, when I can be relaxing and enjoying the sunshine. Equally distressing is the rain falling onto my lovely wood furniture, knowing that it is damaging it.

Made with stainless steel fixings all the maintaining this recycled plastic garden furniture needs is a wash with warm soapy water from time to time to remove dust and dirt - no painting, oiling, special winter storage even in the harshest of climates.

So versatile is the plastic "timber" that in traditional wood colours it is almost impossible to tell that your gorgeous furniture has not been made from traditional tree timber. Even the look and feel of the recycled plastic is that of tree timber.

So when you next find yourself replacing your lawn and garden furniture, remember there are alternatives to the traditional teak, wood, metal and plastic.

For your chance to win some of this remarkable lawn and garden furniture, I invite you to contact us at Poly-Wood and see for yourself how beautiful it is.