Spring is in the air, which means entertaining season.

And as the warm weather approaches, styling experts at furniture store Temple & Webster have noticed one thing: the rise of ‘Connected Spaces’.

This essential idea and design approach blurs the aesthetic boundary between indoors and outdoors, so that your home feels like one continuous space.

Rather than having specifically “indoor” and “outdoor” items, shoppers are looking for furniture that can be adapted into various different parts of the house.

So how does this manifest in terms of what shoppers are actually buying?

Temple & Webster data shows searches for large outdoor rugs (+104 per cent) and outdoor couches (+72 per cent) are surging.

Director of Insights and Trends at Temple & Webster Lucy Sutherland tells Best

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