It’s the time of year to get outside. After all the time spent inside over the winter and having weathered the spring allergy season, it’s finally time for some outdoor hangout time.
One thing, though. It sure would be nice if going outdoors felt more like being indoors, without the walls and with much more fresh air. Do you have to forgo the inviting comfort and style you’ve created in your home?
You do not. At least not when it comes to the comfort and vibe of your outdoor furniture.
Over the last several years, bridging the gap or blurring the lines between your home’s indoor and outdoor design vibe and comfort level has gone from trendy to rock-solid must-have design territory.
Since outdoor furniture often plays a starring role in this scenario (and we just so happen to be the largest furniture upholstery fabric store online), we have many thoughts on this. Today, we’d like to focus on one particular win in the fabric world, especially for areas where the weather is less than predictable. Let’s head outside.
Look Indoors for the Comfy New Trend for Your Home’s Outdoor Style
It’s healing getting outdoors. Not merely as a romantic notion, there are loads of health benefits for our minds and bodies, which is great. Except, there’s leaving the coziness and comfort you’ve lovingly curated to make your home feel precisely your particular flavor of ahhhhh.
Now, the design world is not always known for offering practical or down-to-earth visions of interior design style and comfort. However, trends like hygge, Japandi, and biophilic design have shifted.
Hygge (with its embrace of cozy and calm) and Japandi (with its embrace of simplicity and imperfection) center around how our homes support our mental health. And biophilic embraces uniting the indoors and outdoors through textures, colors, and the inclusion of natural elements.
Pull back the lens and look at all three together. Unsurprisingly, what’s trending in the outdoor design scene is creating outdoor spaces that allow you to revel in being outdoors while offering more of the comfort and style previously relegated to your indoor spaces.
But wait, you may be thinking, how will that work? I mean, that’s all well and good, but what about when we’re actually in the outdoors? Do you know what the outdoors is like where I live and what it does to furniture?! Good questions…
Meet the Fabrics Up To the Task of Giving Your Patio Style and Welcome
You shouldn’t have to sacrifice the comfort (hygge, Japandi, biophilic, or otherwise) of your indoors when you head outdoors. Scratch “shouldn’t,” make that you don’t have to sacrifice comfort and style. Welcome to our neck of the woods.
There was a time when outdoor furniture needed to be exclusively unupholstered or, at least, clad only in vinyl if it was to last. That time is long gone.
Thanks to fabrics like Sunbrella, Crypton, and more, you don’t have to choose between comfort, style, or performance. These fabrics are built from the fiber level out with durability and sustainability in mind. They’re made to withstand the demands of life and to last, saving you time, saving you money, and reducing your impact on the planet.
Plus, since they’re woven fabrics built to allow you to live your life with less worry about the pokes and spills along the way, you can upholster your outdoor spaces to offer your unique version of style, welcome, and easy-like-Sunday-morning chill vibes all summer long.
Yes, you’ll factor in different things depending on your climate and space, but that’s to ensure you get exactly what you need. These days, the demands of your geography simply refine your choices; it doesn’t leave you without them. So you can play with comfort and style outside as boldly as possible.
Now, Meet Some Outdoor Fabrics Offering Summer (Style) Refreshments
What might that look like for you and your home? Let’s get some ideas flowing to help you get your outdoor space rocking some good vibrations.
- Take a patio footprint with a full L-shaped sectional and light it up for the summer with sunny daffodil gold and yellow stripes. Or let it be lively but low-key in a luscious lime green abstract woven pattern fabric.
- Give an outdoor setup with a loveseat and a couple of woven armchairs a decidedly spa-like feel with a sofa with cushions in a sandstone outdoor tweed and armchair cushions in a peaceful lagoon mandala pattern fabric — or vice versa.
- Poolside or not, lazily lounge and enjoy your favorite beach read in a sunlounger with cushions in classic nautical blue or bodacious firecracker red.
Of course, there are many options other than whole furniture pieces for using upholstery fabrics to refresh your favorite summertime outside hang space.
- Like throw pillows in various shapes and sizes in fabrics like a pink flamingo pattern, festival mirage blue and green stripes, peach coral abstract tropical foliage, or grounding coconut Mayan geometric patterns.
Outdoor curtains are an excellent way to transform a simple outdoor space into an outdoor hideaway for patios and decks alike.
- Try fabrics like an ecru taupe or cloud white canvas. Or fabrics that sing with classic summer vibes with forest green and white stripes, pacific blue stripes, or soft neutrals with heather beige stripes — all Sunbrella fabrics, by the way.
You’re Ready To Let The Sunshine On Your Home’s Outdoor Design Vibes
Now you’re ready. Whether or not you’ve been fully embracing the various trends towards blurring the lines between the indoors and outdoors in your home’s interior design style vibe or not, we’re hoping our time today lets the sunshine on the wealth of possibilities awaiting as you head outside this summer.
Here are some quick takeaways. When you’re getting ideas for refreshing your outdoor vibe, look indoors. Think comfort, calm, and style. Then, for fabrics, let yourself play with everything from upholstered sofas to chairs to pillows, curtains, and more. With the performance of today’s outdoor fabrics, you’re less limited than ever before.
And remember, you’ve got people. When it comes to finding the right and perfect fabrics for the right and perfect look and feel for your favorite outdoor space, we love to help. So you can return to enjoying those summer nights (and days) asap.