The Bean Bag Blog
If you love family BBQs and laidback garden parties, you'll want to make your garden a wonderfully inviting space for and outdoor entertaining.
Whether you are revamping your whole garden, or just refreshing your patio, let the experts at Armadillo Sun, makers of luxury garden furniture, and Stiled, specialists in outdoor porcelain tiles, guide you with their ten tips for an inviting and entertaining garden.
Armadillo Sun's outdoor fabric furniture is comfortable, stylish and can be left outside all year. It's very different from the traditional garden furniture materials of wicker, wood, metal and plastic.
I get lots of questions about our soft garden furniture and how it works. Here are the ten questions I hear the most – hopefully, they’ll answer your questions too but, if there’s something else you’d like to ask, please get in touch.
Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, used white carnations to celebrate her mum, embedding flower-giving into the traditions of this particular occasion. But sometimes you want to give something that won’t wilt within the week.
I’ve picked out seven wonderful small businesses that I would be absolutely delighted to receive something from.
If you're like me you are getting excited about the summer and al fresco entertaining. But, to be frank, some of the garden preparation that I know needs doing feels a little dreary and I've simply been putting it off!
Right now I'm ready to jump ahead to BBQs and cosy garden parties, but they will be all the more delightful for getting a few essentials done now. Luckily Lizzie, from The Rose Press Garden, is here to make gardening easy. We've recruited her knowledge and skills for the lowdown on essential gardening jobs to do this month.
Sometimes I want to be wearing the little black dress... but also my fluffy slippers! These are the times a date-night at home is just perfect - relaxed, cosy, but still oh-so-romantic.
Changing up your space – re-arranging furniture, adding accessories, dimming the lighting – can transform it from the day-to-day to something new and romantic. Here are my best ideas for creating a special date-night at home where you can be romantic AND relaxed!