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Make Your Space More Stylish with Best Outdoor Furniture Melbourne

The process of turning your backyard, patio or balcony into a welcoming outdoor space starts with the appropriate furniture. Melbourne is a city well-known for its wide selection of furniture provides a broad range of furniture options to suit diverse preferences and budgets. If you're in search of the best outdoor furniture Melbourne is the place to be, this guide will be your best friend for creating a stylish and practical outdoor space.

Why should you invest into Quality Outdoor Furniture?

Outdoor furniture isn't simply a decorative element. It's a vital element of your home's exterior which blends style, comfort and sturdiness. When hosting barbecues on weekends or relaxing evenings with friends, the best patio furniture Melbourne will provide a stunning and practical space.

Key Benefits of Patio Furniture:

Comfort and Function: Ergonomic designs with top-quality materials give you the best back support and mobility.

Attractiveness: Stylish pieces enhance the appeal of your outdoor setting.

Langevity Material that is weatherproof like teak, aluminum and rattan withstand the endurance test.

Tips to Shop at Outdoor Furniture Stores Melbourne

While looking outdoor furniture stores Melbourne take these points in your mind:

Materials Quality Select weatherproof products like stainless steel, aluminum powder coated, or rattan, to withstand Melbourne's uncertain climate.

Design Options: Choose designs that match your style, whether it's contemporary elegant, traditional timber, or warm Wicker.

Komfort: Furniture is the first priority. You can do this by putting it in the forefront with soft cushions and ergonomically designed furniture.

Maintenance Ease: Easy-to-clean, non-absorbent materials help you save time and energy.

Price is compared to. Value: Choose furniture of high quality that balances strength and affordability.

Quality Wise Top Outdoor Furniture Stores Melbourne

Melbourne has a variety of outstanding stores that offer quality furniture for outdoor use. These are just three of Melbourne's top:

BBQs Heating and Outdoor

Variety of modern as well as traditional designs.

The best weatherproof options are durable and available at reasonable prices.

Elegant furniture that will complement any outdoor setting.

2. Outdoor Elegance

Lounges that are modular with dining sets, lounges, and much more.

It offers a mix of elegance and comfort for any environment.

Ideal for villas, apartments and mansions.

3. Harvey Norman Outdoor

The tables are known for their durability chairs, tables, and lounges.

Top brands that have practical designs.

Ideal for outdoor family spaces.

Choosing the Best Outdoor Furniture Melbourne: Strategies to Follow

The best outdoor furniture Melbourne for your outdoor space requires careful decision-making. Here's how you can make the right choice:

Take Measure of Your Space Learn your measurement to prevent overcrowding or undersizing.

Make a budget: Identify essential items and ensure that the cost is balanced with quality.

weatherproof materials: Prioritize durability with UV-protected materials and strong metals.

Mix Style and comfort: Try furniture out prior to purchase to ensure that it will meet both of your needs.

Look for deals: Watch for seasonal discount offers at furniture stores for outdoor use in Melbourne.

Melbourne's market for outdoor furniture offers an array of choices that blend style, comfort and toughness. If you go to the BBQs Outdoor and Heating, Outdoor Elegance or any other well-known outdoor furniture stores Melbourne is certain to find items that fit your style and budget. Make sure you invest in the best outdoor furniture Melbourne for your outdoor spacein order to build a relaxing outdoor space that will bring joy and peace for many years to be. Get started on your home's transformation now!

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Eco Friendly and Recyclable Flip Flops

INDOSOLE 1.

We love this, because that's what it means to create and consume sustainably. With arch support, waterproof quality and a non-slip textured top sheet, both slides and flip-flops are designed for all-terrain use. These ethical outdoor sandals are adventure-ready to last.

Indosole Ethical and Sustainability Practices Materials: these are, first and foremost, recycled tyre flip flops.

The outsole is made of tire tread and the straps are made of a material called "ENVRO" fiber that uses little water in the process and gives off a leather-like feel while not using any animal by-products, is low-impact, free of cruelty, does not contain any kind of plastic and is 100% waterproof.

Supply Chain & Labor Practices: As a certified B-corp, Indosole maintains high-quality ethics throughout its manufacturing processes and supply chains. With annual audits across a variety of impact areas, this certification ensures that their workers are paid fairly and work in a safe environment.They also operate within a relatively safe range of environmental impacts.

For an extra step above the rest, most of their supply chain is within Indonesia – from the purchase of tires from garages and tire brokers to the final production of local craftsmen.

Community & charitable donation: Indosole organizes and promotes a variety of charitable events to cultivate the community of Good Humans. They include charity basketball tournaments, Fashion Revolution Week events, and more.They will also launch a partnership with Soles 4 Souls to return displaced families through a disaster relief program.

 2. GUARDIANS OF THE FUTURE

Based in NSW, Australia, Guardians For Our Future is a relatively new company run by a woman who involved in Women's whale treads and spent years working with at-risk youth and the Australian fashion industry.

For the benefit of youth-focused charities, they sell GOTS certified organic cotton clothing, mostly ethical active clothing for men, women and children. Their fun shoes really embodies the notion that "there really isn't a wrong string. "Featuring funky insole designs by artist Keo Match, these planet-friendly flip flops can even be customized with your own text.Fun fact: they're also partnering with Etiko (an eco-friendly sneaker brand) to sell some of their vegan, organic cotton tops.

Guardians of the Ethical and Sustainability Practices of Our Future

Materials: These mixed recycled rubber flip flops are made of recycled rubber part and FSC-certified natural rubber part. There are no glues or chemicals involved in the bonding process. If you're unable to compost your flip flops when they're worn out, send them back to the Guardians to recycle the furniture! Supply Chain & Labor Practices: These flip flops are made from sustainably harvested materials by a Fair Trade organization in Sri Lanka.GFOF ship in Hero Packaging of compostable saddles made of sweet cornstarch and sugar cane. Even the Pure Labels are made of all-natural, unbleached cane paper and are certified compostable with a soil-safe adhesive.

About Original Cork Shop Composable Flip Flops

We love cork for a lot of reasons (which you can read about below) and, thankfully, the Original Cork Shop, too! What started as a disappointing boy's search for environmentally friendly flip flops soon turned into a truly sustainable shoe brand. Their cork flip flops are available for adults and children in a variety of colors. We especially love how children's styles have extra heel straps, so your little one is less likely to lose their shoes.

Original Cork Shop Ethical and Sustainability Practices

Materials: The original Cork Shop flip flops are 100% cork, from the foot bed to the straps, to the flexible and gripping rubber cork sole.

While these are water-friendly and beach-friendly, cork may deteriorate with prolonged exposure to salt. If you're wearing it in the ocean, be sure to wipe it afterwards to give your flip flops the longest possible life.

Supply Chain & Labor Practices: The original Cork Shop is about keeping things local, fair trade, and cruelty free. Everything is 100% sourced and made at its base in Portugal, where most of the world's cork trees are found.

Reusable face masks with Whale bags

Face mask designs vary from company to company, but we’re convinced Whale bags masks feature everything important to consider when choosing a reusable face mask.  The masks are an incredible qualities:-

●     ADJUSTABLE. Use the adjustable ear loops with elastic bands to find the perfect fit.

●     REUSABLE. Wash and use over and over.

●     BREATHABLE. Made with a double layer cotton blend which allows for easy breathability.

●     WASHABLE. Can be machine-washed at 140°F water then air dried.

●     HAND-SEWN. Hand-sewn by women artisans in Zambia.

●     SUSTAINABLE. Use of reusable cloth masks helps to cut down on landfill waste.

●     UNIQUE. Stand out from the crowd with a unique Chitenge print (coming soon!).

Learn more about chitenge, Zambia’s beautiful fabric

Chitenge (often spelled Kitenge), is a fabric that’s heavily used in many parts of the African continent, including Zambia, People’s artisans live. The Zambian chitenge handmade masks prints are very colorful and versatile; the fabric is most often used in clothes, headwraps, baby slings, and blankets. And now, with the pandemic calling for reusable face masks, whalebags is taking beautiful chitenge fabric and sewing it into stunning face masks. Given the traditional chitenge prints used to create many of the masks, every mask has its own unique design.

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Kerry Phelan on The ‘WOW’ Factor Couch

Kerry Phelan on The ‘WOW’ Factor Couch

Design Eye

by Lucy Feagins, Editor

KPDO’s interiors for The Riverside Centre in Brisbane reinstate the original understated grandeur of this Harry Seidler designed building. Featuring the DS-600 couch, the lobby has been  re-imagined as a gallery-like space. Photo – Anson Smart.

Interior Designer Kerry Phelan of KPDO.

KPDO’s interiors for The Riverside Centre in Brisbane, re-imagined as a gallery-like space. Photo – Anson Smart.

  KPDO’s striking new interior foyer for The Riverside Centre in Brisbane. Photo – Anson Smart.

The DS-600 couch by de Sede is a pretty unique design piece. This iconic sofa was designed in Switzerland in 1972, and is still manufactured today by the same company. Being modular, its length and shape is variable from project to project – it has even found its place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest sofa!

Celebrated Melbourne designer Kerry Phelan of KPDO has been a fan of this distinctive design piece for many years, and has placed it in a number of her projects, including The Riverside Centre in Brisbane – an iconic Harry Seidler building, recently updated by KPDO. We figured there was no one better than Kerry to give us the low-down on this timeless design piece.

We’re seeing a re-emergence of the iconic de Sede DS-600 sofa at the moment, both in Australian interiors and globally. What appeals to you about this piece?

We’ve loved this sofa ever since becoming aware of it – perhaps 30 years ago. Australia finally caught up! De Sede has an impeccable design and construction methodology – the quality is amazing. It is a subliminal piece, immediately recognisable, and untouchable (eg. can’t be copied) – it’s magnificently subtle.

You used DS-600 in your Riverside project. Could you tell us a little about that project – what was the brief, what were you hoping to achieve ?

The Riverside Centre in Brisbane is an iconic commercial building designed in the 1980’s by Harry Seidler, Australia’s greatest Modernist architect. Our brief was to reimagine the lobby as a social work-space whilst retaining the purity of Seidler’s original vision.

Commercial lobbies have become more like flight lounges; with space for impromptu meetings, quiet working and coffee on the go – rather than pursuing the ubiquitous flight lounge model, we were inspired by the significant artworks in the original design – we felt the revitalised lobby should feel more like a gallery and that this approach would be more appropriate to Seider’s original vision.

We stripped away nearly 20 years of unsuccessful renovations, reinstating open circulation, true to Seidler’s considered planning.

We reinstated the original circulation pattern, defining the core as the pure and heroic element within the space. The new concierge, coffee lounge and planters were added as monumental sculptural elements, all in a pure geometry. New translucent stone screens provide a soft ambient light quality throughout the space and informal lounges are defined by lush carpet zones, anchoring a collection of distinctive and bespoke seating groups.

The result is a calm and contemplative space, with varied options for engagement. Like a gallery, the space both encourages conversation and rewards privacy.

Your studio is known for its balance of ‘restraint and exuberance’… but it must be challenging when faced with very grand spaces, to keep restraint front of mind, and avoid designing in a way that feels ‘over the top’! How do you maintain that sense of restraint in your projects ?

We choose not to be fashionable.

All our projects are underpinned by rigorous planning methodologies and meticulous detailing from the onset. All our projects are designed with the specific client in mind – each project is unique in itself, perhaps the finishes bring the exuberance and the detailing and planning brings depth.

The DS-600 brings WOW Factor to commercial interiors, but what about in a residential setting? How might you incorporate this piece into a more domestic space, and what other sort of furnishings would you pair it with?

The DS-600 is an iconic piece of furniture, equally weighted to both commercial, residential and corporate interiors. It has a fantastic WOW factor that never seems to date. One of the beautiful things about the DS-600 is that it is powerful from all angles – so it does suit a central location… completely sculptural in form.

The other thing we like about the DS-600 is the chameleon nature of it… it can feel spare and minimal or lush and exuberant (with cushions and vintage rugs thrown over!). Any piece of furniture looks beautiful with the DS-600.

We’ve located it in large Victorian era residential projects, as well as a modern penthouse with a James Bond je ne sais quoi look!

For more than 30 years, DOMO has remained Australia’s exclusive stockist of prestigious design brands from Europe, and across the globe.

With showrooms in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, DOMO offers a curated collection of classic, contemporary indoor and outdoor furniture ranges that last a lifetime.

The DS-600 in buttery tan leather brings a sculptural focal point to this Melbourne home designed by Martin Freidrich Architects, Build by Head Homes. Photos by Tess Kelly, Styling by Lauren Li.