What the Right Outdoor Setting can do for Your Lifestyle
An outdoor dining set consists of a table and some chairs, typically built from wicker, timber, aluminium, or steel. This forms the very heart of your outdoor dining area. These tables and chairs that form your outdoor setting, however, are really just a means to an end: chances are, what you’re really looking forward to most are not these attractive, matching objects, but the new experiences that will come from having them. Here are a few of the things you can look forward to when you make this investment in your home and your lifestyle:
Entertain Guests Outside
As the weather warms up and the days become longer, the temptation to spend more time outside can become harder and harder to resist. So why fight it? Outdoor entertaining can add a whole new dimension to social events. The outdoors can add a whole new relaxed, informal, and convivial atmosphere to a dinner party, without at all diminishing the sense of occasion. Even when you’re not serving food at a party, having an outdoor setting means you have the perfect area to add some decoration, such as some cuttings from the garden. Your guests have an area to put their drink down or just to sit down and hang out. Those less planned events when you have friends or relatives over for an impromptu meal, a couple of drinks, or just a cuppa can also be a great time to relax outside. And then there’s the grand tradition of the great Aussie barbecue: can there be a better way to round off a long weekend in summer?
Spend Time Together as a Family
If you have children of a certain age then you might be finding it difficult to get their noses out of the television or the computer. The stresses and busyness of being adult life can also take their toll on the family mealtime. Nevertheless, academic research has underlined the importance of eating together as a family. The benefits go beyond nutrition – shared mealtimes mean shared conversation, fostering closer family ties. In the long run, children who eat with their family more often have a better chance of learning healthy eating habits, are at lower risk of developing alcoholism or other substance abuse problems, and tend to perform better academically than do children who regularly eat alone or away from home.
Eating outside can be a great way to tear everyone away from television and computer screens so that you all talk to each other. It also adds a sense of novelty and fun to dinnertime that the kids will love. Time pressures and fast-paced 21st century lifestyles mean many families buy take-out food now and then, but even then there’s no need to do without the shared dining experience when you have a place for the family to eat together outdoors.
Get More for Your Home at Auction
As Yahoo!7 recently reported, adding an outdoor dining area to your home can be a great way to improve its value. It’s not hard to see how this works! When prospective buyers see a fabulous outdoor setting on your backyard or balcony, even the most hardnosed bidder will find it hard not to picture themselves enjoying a nice meal or a cheeky beverage as the sun starts to set on a warm, relaxing evening. This makes your home a more desirable place, and the more that people can see themselves living there, the more inclined they’re going to be to bid harder against each other. By nudging the price up when the hammer goes down, your outdoor setting could end up paying for itself.
Tip: If it’s too much of a pain in the neck to consult with your neighbours or the local council to get approval to extend your roof or awnings, you can consider shading your outdoor setting with one of our centre pole or side pole umbrellas.