Decorating tips to turn your Irish garden into an outdoor room

Even with our dubious weather, there are just enough blessed warm and windless days to take the garden seriously as an outdoor room. 

This year sees the triumph of outdoor/ indoor furniture, a brave enthusiasm for cooking out on the patio stones, and a sense of decorating the garden to the very nines. Whether you have a few metres of sunny wall to balance your entertaining upon, or a comfortable expanse of hard landscaping — it’s almost time to come out and play.

Melamine and plastic might do for rough housing, but get out some proper flatware and glass for those special occasions. Lay on the tropical bling with golden forks and palm print linens, new from House of Frasers much feted Linea line.