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When putting together your conservatory, it’s important to be very selective about your furnishings; doing so can allow you to find the right match between the use of your conservatory and individual items of furniture. At the same time, choosing your conservatory furnishings wisely can help you to keep cool during the summer, while also providing opportunities to match up the decor from the rest of your home. Finally, getting durable furnishings, and finding a coherent theme that’ll last a long time, can enhance the look and comfort of your conservatory.
Tailoring Furnishings to Usage
Primarily, you want to match your furnishings to a conservatory by how you plan to use it – if you want to spend a lot of time relaxing and eating in a conservatory space, than easily cleaned hardwood floors, comfortable sofas, and wood weave and roller blinds in neutral colours can help to create a relaxing atmosphere. By comparison, a more functional conservatory can be enhanced by minimalist furniture, and plenty of storage and work areas. Make sure, though, that you can easily adapt a more basic conservatory for parties with throws, extra furniture, and cushions.
Keeping Cool
One of the most important things to focus on with conservatory furnishings, and especially during the summer, is keeping the temperature of a space consistent. To avoid overheating in the summer, UV resistant blinds can be installed, while you can also reduce the effect of the sun by avoiding soft furnishings in dark colours, as these can end up causing problems with heat absorption.
Matching Decor
If you want your conservatory to flow into the rest of your interior decor, then you’ll need to choose complementary colours and styles. Contemporary furniture in adjoining rooms can be sustained in a conservatory, even just by dividing up a suite. Similarly, look for matching metals or plastic for door handles and window latches, and consider extending window blind colours and styles from other rooms into larger sizes for your conservatory.
Durability
Carefully consider which furnishings are going to be able to stand up to repeated use in your conservatory; this means looking at high quality materials like oak for tables and chairs, as well as ensuring that any soft furnishings you have can be placed away from direct sunlight to prevent problems with fading; this can be helped by the use of skylight and window blinds that can be closed during particularly bright parts of the day.
Having a Theme
As with matching up your decor, having a self contained theme can mean that you can invest in trends that are going to last for a long time. One way to experiment with these trends is to pick up modular sets of furniture that can be disassembled and reassembled into different configurations. Other options to consider include timeless styles like French country or minimalist furnishings, as well as black and white Italian furniture.
Author Bio
Sophie Wiggins is an interior decor writer and home makeover blogger. If you’re looking for some new blinds for your conservatory, she recommends www.conservatoryblinds4less.co.uk .
