Aluminium Garden FurnitureGarden Furniture Design

[reblogged from bejacksfriend]

  Okay, so you want a new table and chairs for your back garden.  Is it going to be made of metal, wood, plastic… or crap?  Yes, junk; rubbish, refuse, waste.  Believe it or not, some people make the ugliest furniture out of the most ridiculous material and shove it in their gardens.  Beer cans, tyres, chicken wire, old ashtrays and even PS1’s (the original ‘brick-style type’ ones)!

  Why on Earth would you want to make a main attraction out of a total eyesore???  I’m all for recycling, but isn’t this taking things a little bit too far?  And, to top it all off, many of these Artists in Junk will post endless pictures of their ‘achievements’ on the Net so that everyone can share their excitement. 

  And me?  Well, call me old-fashioned if you like, but I prefer traditional garden furniture.  After the amount of time I spend making my garden look nice, I am hardly going to ‘set it all off’ with a chair made of used ear buds…

[reblogged from hedgerley]

  Choosing the right type of furniture is often the perfect finishing touch to a well-maintained garden.  And after all of that hard work with the digging, weeding and grass-cutting, you will be more than ready to have a sit down!  There is always plenty to do out there, isn’t there? Read the rest of this entry »