Although there are many types of furniture available in the market, such as woods, plastic, vinyl etc. However, rattan furniture is still popular, especially in the countries that in the tropical zone where rattan can be grown. The reason that make rattan furniture still popular due to its uniqueness of texture, characteristics and design as well as rattan furniture can be use with all of house decoration styles.



Rattan furniture available in the market today has variety of design and colours. Besides, there are many different method of color coating methods such as dying, airbrush or natural colours dying, which buyers can choose respond to their needs. Also if you are looking for a rattan couch, you can choose type of stuff material that made from sponge or kapok. However, you have to be careful when you choosing rattan furniture is the texture of rattan itself, which may have moulds and rotten.

Another type of furniture that made from rattan, which is very popular is a dressing table (with mirror). You have to make sure that the mirror is firmly installed on the furniture. You can test by softly push the mirror and it should not steeve. If it does, it is very harmful when you put a heavy stuff on in and the mirror may crack or broken. Besides rattan furniture designs are very flexible. You don't always have to by finished rattan furniture because sometime you can but just part of rattan furniture to assemble with other furniture that you currently used at home.

How to choose

If you are using rattan chairs, make sure that you use soft cushion for them. If the rattan chairs have square shape, you should use cushion that made from rubber. Before buy rattan furniture, especially chairs, make you have to make sure that all parts are assembled firmly and you can test by softly sway the chair. You should also choose the chair that has design match to you body shape so you will feel comfortable when sitting on the chair.

Check the structure of the furniture, make sure that the furniture use the same size of rattan sticks and be intertwined neatly, joints are fixed firmly and the rattan texture should clean, don't have stains.

How to clean and maintain

The best way to maintain rattan furniture is to brush by using soft brusher or soft cotton sheet to get rid of dust. Or you may use wet cotton sheet to dab off the dust, in case if the furniture is too dirty or have some stains, you can use soap to clean.

If you want to make your rattan furniture always look new and shiny, you have to coat the furniture's surface, but do not use coating chemical with furniture that has white colour because it will become blackish in very short time. In case you furniture has termites, you can get rid of them by using gasoline drop in to its hole (you may use syringe to inject gasoline) and avoid to put rattan furniture facing the strong sunlight.