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The 9 best garden chairs, loungers and day beds for summer 2024
What are the best garden chairs to buy? It’s important to know before the warm days arrive. Well-chosen pieces let you extend your interior design to the garden so that when the sun comes out, you can simply open the doors, fire up the BBQ and start living outside like a true continental. Choose badly, however, and it can become a burden, gradually degrading or taking up space in the garage. How to tell the difference? This guide shows the way, informed by gardening editors here at The Telegraph. Let’s start with where to buy it. Online retailers perennially popular with Telegraph readers include Barker & Stonehouse and OKA, co-founded by David Cameron’s mother-in-law Lady Astor. There are also stores which specialise in particular types of garden furniture. For example, our gardening expert Val Bourne recommends oak furniture specialist Gaze Burvill. Tom Brown loves teak specialist Cyan. Jan Masters prefers the eclecticism of Burford. Cinead McTernan buys from Alice’s Garden and Sarah Rodrigues recommends Cox & Cox. You can read Val, Tom, Jan, Cinead and …
The best patio heaters for 2024 to warm outdoor space
What is the highest BTU for a patio heater? A misguided question. British thermal units are a standard measurement of heat energy and outdoor heaters can produce anything from 10,000 to a scorching 80,000 BTUs. Most are somewhere around 40,000. But, according to Stephen Levy of specialists Heat Outdoors, all that is completely irrelevant if the heat is blown away by the wind – see above. How many square feet does a patio heater cover? “About eight square metres, assuming a high quality 2kW shortwave heater,” Levy says. That’s roughly equivalent to a garden table and the garden chairs around it. 2kW refers to the electricity a heater uses, by the way, rather than the heat it emits: more kiloWatts do not necessarily mean more warmth, especially if the heater has a poorly-made reflector or cheap bulbs. To heat a bigger space, it’s usually better to get more than one heater. For low-glow and gas heaters, shelter from the wind is by far the most important factor. Talking of which… How effective are gas …