As you spend time outdoors, it’s important to invest in easy to use, low maintenance seating to focus on enjoying the sun as opposed to cleaning your furniture day in, day out. Bean bags offer a great example of how you can enjoy both comfort and versatility with your outdoor furniture, without having to worry about weather or wear and tear affecting your pieces.
Invest in a few of these and you can instantly update a tired looking terrace, with zany colours and fabrics to show off your garden. Pick from muted hues to let your foliage do the talking, spruce up an old-fashioned decking with citric colours and inject a bit of sunshine and freshness to browns and greys. Choosing pleather or woven fabrics in darker tones will prove easy to clean and if you pick your fabrics carefully, such as cotton and linen, you can easily wash them with your regular loads to have them looking new in a few hours!
Alternatively, thanks to their stuffing and depending on your choice of outer fabric, you could hose them down in under 10 minutes to freshen them up. Bean bags are also great as they are so light and portable - you can quickly move them from one end of your garden to the other, with minimum effort (perfect if you’re looking to soak up the rays!). Store them indoors when you’re done or leave them outside, you’ll see that they can easily withstand bad weather and frost, unlike wooden furniture, for example. With many styles out on the market, you can choose a classic version or go for versatility, with some pieces folding out to create your very own sun lounger and seat, all in one.
Kids and adults will love them, too, as they are incredibly comfy, moulding themselves to the user according to their body moves. Pick out a colourful bunch to create a sense of contemporary design on your terrace or go for the same hues to form uniformity in your choice of outdoor furniture. Classic styles are always popular with young and old, yet with great novelty pieces being produced month on month, you don’t have to follow the crowd.
As well as having the ability to become fashion statements by themselves, you could also incorporate them into your existing decor, so as to offer additional seating to guests you may have. You can easily express your tastes thanks to fabrics and shapes, as well as sizes in a jazzy way outdoors, if you tend to keep it quite muted indoors. Additionally, thanks to the accessibility of the item in question, all sorts of budgets can afford one (or many) bean bags to give their home a retro-yet-contemporary twist.