Peak Garden Sofa Set: When Britain Buys, Month by Month

Garden sofa sets have one of the shortest buying windows of any furniture category in Britain, and readiness rather than weather decides when it opens, according to new analysis from UK furniture retailer Furniture in Fashion. The report finds that households commit to a large outdoor lounge set only once the garden itself has been prepared, which typically lags the first warm weekend by several weeks and often depends on work booked in advance. It publishes no monthly sales figures, stating that no official UK dataset records garden sofa purchases by month and that the retailer does not cite its own commercial data. Instead it identifies delivery access as the real bottleneck, noting that side gates and passages are frequently narrower than front doors, and sets out the level paving each seating format requires. Cushion storage, not frame material, emerges as the factor that decides whether a set survives to a second summer....