What is Wicker Furniture?

Wicker Furniture - Bringing natural elements such as Wicker, rattan and bamboo into your home creates a serene and comfortable retreat your whole family can enjoy. The perfect addition for your sunroom or patio – wicker furniture has become a favorite in the home as well as out on the deck. The texture of the materials used in living room frames, bedroom and dining room construction brings to your home a sense of visual drama and a calming tropical sense of style your family, friends and most of all you will enjoy for years.  more

Wicker refers to a slender flexible branch, vine, or grass that is woven into a pattern. Wickerwork is the resulting form created by weaving or interlacing wicker. Wicker furniture then, is furniture that is made from weaving branches around a frame and into the shapes of tables, chairs, and sofas. Wicker furniture can be fashioned out of willow, rattan, bamboo, reed, or synthetic materials. Wicker furniture is available with natural, stained or painted surfaces; some wicker furniture has been dipped in a special coating to resist fading and reduce flaking and cracking. Tropical settings and casual rooms lend themselves to the use of indoor wicker furniture particularly well because of its light and airy nature, which is many times paired with colorfully patterned cushions. Wicker furniture is also popular as child-scaled furniture or as furnishings for a young woman's bedroom. Another popular use for wicker furniture is as outdoor patio furniture. Because of its comparable light ...  more

Wicker Furniture - Bringing natural elements such as Wicker, rattan and bamboo into your home creates a serene and comfortable retreat your whole family can enjoy. The perfect addition for your sunroom or patio C wicker furniture has become a favorite in the home as well as out on the deck. The texture of the materials used in living room frames, bedroom and dining room construction brings to your home a sense of visual drama and a calming tropical sense of style your family, friends and most of all you will enjoy for years. 10. How to arrange living room furniture? • Measure the dimensions of the room with a tape. Draw the outline to scale on graph paper. • Mark anything that would affect your arrangement: outlets for electricity, telephone and cable; light switches; windows; doors that open into the room; space between windows; and sill height. • Make scale paper cutouts of your living room furniture and shift them on the room drawing as needed until a likely arrangement emerges. • ...