A veranda is neither quite indoors nor quite outdoors. Light comes in from three sides, the sun beats down hard in summer, and in winter it is where you go looking for the last brightness of the afternoon. It is the room where teak and natural fibres feel most at home: they link the garden and the living room.
Start with the light
Before the furniture, look at where the sun comes from and at what time. Place the seats with their backs to the strongest light, so you can read without being dazzled, and keep the most open side for the view.
For the cushions, choose Sunproof olefin fabrics: solution-dyed, they resist UV without fading, where an ordinary fabric grows pale behind a sunny pane of glass.
In the evening, a veranda quickly turns into a black box. A pendant light in natural fibres brings back some warmth: Helios 1, a 60 cm rattan globe bristling like a sea urchin, casts fine shadows on the walls; Soa 1, a woven rattan bell, goes above a table. These lights are made for indoors: in an enclosed veranda, they are in their element.
The lounge chairs
A veranda is lived in sitting down, and for a long time. Choose low lounge chairs, which let the eye travel over them.
- Kumala, a low lounge chair in pale solid teak, with round armrests and thick cream ecru cushions.
- Nalani, with a round back woven in thick khaki rope, radiating from the centre.
- Surya, with a large round fan-shaped back in ecru white rope: a centrepiece for a reading corner.
- Anara, a low lounge chair with an angular frame, tightly woven in brown olefin rope.
All of them work indoors as well as outdoors: on fine days, they go out onto the terrace.
The coffee table
Leave 40 to 45 cm between the edge of the table and the seats, to put down a cup without getting up, and 80 cm to move around the whole arrangement.
- For a narrow veranda, a round table you can walk around: Hanoi, in slices of reclaimed teak with a white finish, which brightens the room.
- For a long veranda, a very low rectangular table: Vairani, three thick planks separated by a gap that lets the light through, or Timor, with its grey patina.
- For a mineral touch, Kalaya, in white microcement, beside a lounge chair.
Care. Behind the glass there is no salt or rain: cleaning with soapy water and a soft brush is enough. To keep the golden tone of the teak, feed it once or twice a year with a teak oil.
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