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So, Mrs Stonster suggests we would like rattan furniture for the garden. My extensive research seems to suggest it can vary from a few hundred pounds to several thousand. (Or on facebook marketplace for about £74. Obviously).
Question is - what's the quality difference between a £250 set and a £2500 set? Do they last longer? Are they made better? Or is someone just making a lot of money?
Aby experience? Anyone suggest a decent mid-price source?
https://billyoh.com/resource/rattan-and-wicker
I'd guess the cheap stuff is just wicker style but made from some sort of plastic, which is bad for the environment and will be knackered after a couple of years.
Are we talking proper rattan or the plastic look-a-like rattan? My wife was after said patio set and looked at local garden centre, all upwards of £1500, these were plastic woven all weather numbers with water resistant cushion pads. Anyway, she ended up getting a set from, shush, Amazon 😱 for about £600. To be fair, they still look good after being out for three years, we just put the cushions away if it looks like rain.
Yeah, the plastic rattan stuff. I don't think actual rattan can be left outside.
Thanks neila - was there any difference between the garden centre and the Amazon quality?
we would like rattan furniture for the garden
Nice. I have rattan me kitchen.
Don't go for stuff you have to assemble yourself and only look at aluminium framed sets.
Some of ours is about 8 years old and is fine other than where one of the dogs had a chew when she was a puppy 🙄
We are also looking for some and are equally unsure. We do appear to have settled on either LG or Bramblecrest but find their pricing eye-watering. Surely so long as the frame is aluminium and the rattan stuff is plastic that's it, or is it?