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Entertain your friends in comfort with cane furniture

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

When the weather allows us to pamper ourselves by sitting out in the garden or entertaining friends and neighbours, there needs to be  enough comfortable seating available.

The most flexible seating for out in a garden and in the home is patio furniture. Cane sofas or cane suites are light , easily moved from area to area, can hold up to wear and tear, and easy to keep clean.

Outdoor wicker furniture or cane furniture as it is referred to by many is a natural product.

There are many pieces or wicker or cane furniture to choose from, each piece being made individually to fit into the smallest of corners in a garden, back yard or patio.

Furniture that is light enough to be moved around can be used indoors when the weather is not good enough to sit or eat outside. Traditional cane furniture is beautiful, with its natural weave being shown at its best in cane sofas, cane chairs and matching cane tables.

It is ideal if you accidentally leave it outside and it rains. Once your cane furniture is wet, leave it to dry in its natural shape.

Sometimes, if left out too long, cane furniture may show some signs of mildew. Naturally, it will need a wipe with a damp cloth and moved to a dry area, to make sure that there would not be any permanent damage.

At 1st for Cane, we have a wide selection of cane furniture for outdoor and indoor use.

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Socialising with the help of cane furniture

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

During the warmer weather, you may have many social occasions that will involve your friends and family. Children love to play out in the garden, and everyone wants to be outdoors having fun, so this is the time when patio furniture comes into its own. Cane garden furniture is versatile at any time.

When you have young children who want to splash about in the garden or back yard, you do not want them to run into the house and cover your kitchen floor with puddles of water. Cane tables and cane chairs, set outside, serve as a waiting area to dry out young children, and can also be a picnic area while a parent continues with their housework.

Soft and comfortable, cane garden furniture allows families to settle, eat their food, and enjoy a relaxing time in their garden. Cane furniture is so versatile, that socialising at any time of the year is made easy with prepared food being placed on cane tables and chairs. Cane sofas, which have been kept in the conservatory, can be brought out if unexpected guests arrive.

Comfortable and stylish outdoor cane furniture is just the ticket for having a nap after a meal, or for relaxing in with a good book or magazine.

At 1st For Cane, we love the comfortable feel and stylish look of outdoor cane furniture, which gives credibility to garden or patio areas, for family and friends to enjoy each other’s company.

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The changing times of cane furniture

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

A conservatory suite, for some homeowners, has to be made out of a natural product such as cane. Furniture for conservatories and other areas of a home has moved forward in leaps and bounds. Cane furniture remains popular, but wicker furniture is hot on its heels.

Living room furniture in wicker is a cost-effective way of being able to choose from a variety of modern styles, with a set of fabulous cushions, made in either polyester or an acrylic fabric. Outdoor wicker furniture is manufactured to withstand a wide variety of weather conditions. If the weather outside is warm enough for entertaining, wicker furniture is light enough to be moved out on to decking for an enjoyable evening with close friends.

However, in case of bad weather overnight, it is important to remember to bring your living room furniture in at the end of the evening. Resin Wicker furniture, in the latest designs, can be purchased for a more permanent place on an outside porch or decking. A large or small garden will be shown off to its best advantage with wicker furniture.

Resin wicker furniture is manufactured slightly differently to living room wicker furniture. It has a framework in either steel or aluminium, which is then wrapped tightly with a resin vinyl, for even more durability. Outdoor furniture is tough enough to stand wear and tear, yet it remains sturdy and comfortable enough for many years of enjoyment.

At 1st For Cane, we have in stock a wide array of designer wicker furniture for your perusal.

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Make space work for you with cane or wicker furniture

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

If you are a homeowner with a large amount of space, you are in a position to take advantage of fabulous pieces of rattan living room furniture and rattan dining room furniture.

Conservatories are not the only room where rattan furniture belongs; it fits into any space in any room. One way to fill a space is to look at cane suites or wicker conservatory furniture, mix them up with your own traditional pieces to establish office and leisure areas, using the furniture as a set of boundaries.

A cold room in a house, such as a bedroom, can be turned into a warm and inviting one without too much effort. If you have just decorated a bedroom, and your original accessories are looking tired, remove them or add rattan furniture to give some depth to the original tones that you chose in the first place. One tip is to divide some of the space, place one of the many designer wicker or cane chairs in the room, and add a new lamp at the side of a bed on the original bedside cabinet.

Moving a bed, wardrobe and other pieces of furniture can transform a room. Adding a few essential home accessories in a different colour, with new bedside lamps and centre lighting, creates a relaxing atmosphere for reading or listening to music.

At 1st For Cane, we have a large range of cane sofas, amongst other fabulous pieces of cane furniture – including the latest designs in conservatory furniture.

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Contemporary living with cane rattan furniture

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Many modern homes and apartments are now foregoing traditional décor and furniture, as contemporary living is in fashion. When visiting a builder’s show home, the modern designer living room furniture chosen to complement the room are cane suites with modern house accessories.

A busy lifestyle calls for simple, clean elegant lines that cane furniture or rattan furniture can provide with a degree of flexibility. A selection of cane suites and cane accessories fit in with any home, mixed with contemporary accessories they showcase a person’s creativity.

Clean lines, and a spacious effect, are made easier with a few quality pieces of cane furniture, just a few candles (or a hurricane candle with its sleek but unusual shape) is one idea for a benchmark of new contemporary living. Sometimes, homeowners move to a new home after living in a traditional home, and take with them pieces of old furniture that have sentimental value. These items can be incorporated into a new home quite easily, with the help of cane furniture.

Using traditional furniture, maybe a chair or a set of drawers, place a cane sofa in a suitable position and then add one or two small cane tables.
You could decide to stay with a natural tone with the living room furniture, or maybe add a splash of colour with a few scatter cushions placed strategically on their cane furniture for greater effect.

At 1st for Cane, we have a fantastic selection of cane furniture, in many designs, for contemporary living.

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Choose Fashionable Pieces Of Wicker Or Cane Furniture…

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Choose Fashionable Pieces Of Wicker Or Cane Furniture

One of the most popular and fashionable pieces of furniture is wicker.

Furniture that co-ordinates with any décor of a room is priceless.

Wicker chairs and sofas come in a wide range of innovative and elegant designs that is timeless yet able to bring their own personality to a room.

One of the positive adaptations that wicker furniture has going for it, is that it can be stained or painted over.

Walking through a house you can easily see where wicker furniture can be placed to change the overall ambience of a room.

A hallway in a home can use make use of a strategically placed cane chair complete with a couple of decorative cushions.

Moving upstairs, a small study will look great with a wicker chair teamed up with a computer desk and matching pieces of office furniture.

A large bedroom will look amazing with a set of cane furniture in the form of bedside cabinets at the side of a bed, and a matching cane sofa near the window.

Downstairs living room furniture can accommodate a cane chair and cane sofa in a honey coloured tone to show of both modern and contemporary décor.

Homeowners who have gathered a few pieces of established furniture in a living room will find by adding a couple of cane tables to the room it takes on a new lease of life.

At 1st for Cane we have seen fashionable furniture change over the last few years and we have a wide range of cane and wicker furniture available in various designs.

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Cane furniture will complement any style of home

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

If you are a person who loves unusual pieces of furniture, home accessories or home furnishings, while still requiring them to be practical, then choosing cane furniture in the form of an ottoman or a dining table in a different design may appeal to you.

Edwardian and Victorian homes can still benefit from resin Wicker furniture as it is stylish and will fit comfortably with any style of a room. There are many sets of beautiful cane dining tables and chairs that have been sympathetically designed to suit old and new houses alike.

Some of the most popular indoor wicker furniture can be matched up at any time and additional pieces are always available at cost effective prices. Darker pieces of cane furniture look absolutely fabulous with curtains, in plain or patterned fabrics, which are warm and comforting. Honey coloured pieces of cane furniture can open up a room to give the illusion of more space, while letting in more natural light.

However, it is essential that you are aware of how to maintain your cane furniture so it will remain in excellent condition for a long time. Try to lightly clean your cane furniture once every couple of weeks with wood oil soap and a soft brush. Be careful though because if you attempt to clean indoor wicker furniture with too much water it could lose its shape due to it being made from natural fibres.

At 1st For Cane we have a wide range of both light and dark pieces of cane and rattan furniture.

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Choose cane furniture for your spare room

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

If you are thinking of decorating a spare room in your home for either friends or family coming to stay, then you would of course want the room to look welcoming while staying within a reasonable cost effective budget.

It will depend of course on the size of your spare room, but once the hard work of wallpapering and painting has been taken care of, choosing the correct furniture is important to bring it all together. In this modern world you can even choose a bed made out of cane, with other pieces of cane furniture to complement it.

A small spare room would look absolutely wonderful with a couple of cane chairs and small cane tables at each side of the bed. If your spare room is large, you may decide to place a modern cane sofa under the window for your guests to sit on.

Whatever pieces of cane furniture you choose, you will have wonderful pieces of cane furniture that will give out a calm and welcoming ambiance to your guests. Using cane furniture indoors is an ideal way to keep costs down; the furniture itself is strong and light enough to be moved around easily.

The cushions that come with cane furniture chairs and sofas are made out of a fabric that can withstand a substantial amount of wear and tear and, if required, can be re-covered.

At 1st For Cane we stock a wide range of cane and wicker furniture in the latest designs.

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The historical use of cane furniture

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

If you tend to visit antique shops and you come across a dining table with a set of cane chairs that have holes in the seating area, you could be looking at one of the earliest chairs that were manufactured using cane. Cane chairs were first woven and introduced in England in the 17th Century.

Cane chairs were manufactured with a solid frame. The seat of the chairs had cane woven into them, with large spaces that took on a coarse and unattractive pattern. However, this changed later on to form a finer pattern that we know today as the six way pattern.

Some of the styles of the cane furniture weave that was made in the 17th century have remained constant in the patterns of many pieces of conservatory furniture and outdoor garden furniture that is available today.

Cane furniture in Europe, in particular, has always been popular for its strength, its decorative qualities, practicalities and low maintenance.

In England, we tend to go with the latest fashion trends. In the Regency period, many bamboo chairs were made with cane seats. The pavilion at Brighton, with its fashionable Indian influences, brought the attention of rattan furniture and cane furniture to many visitors. Manufacturers recognised the popularity of cane furniture and started to produce various pieces of cane and rattan furniture, which included cane sofas, cane chairs and cane tables.

At 1st For Cane we have a range of modern and traditional indoor and outdoor wicker furniture.

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