Here are a few of our favourite orange pieces on Danetti right now …

Coco A frame dining chair

1. The Coco A frame chair

We love the retro-styling of the  Coco A frame chair. With its gentle curves and smooth textures, the Coco fits into any home or work environment, as well as waiting areas, bars and cafes. It’s available in solid black acrylic or transparent red, orange, green or smoke acrylic. It looks great when placed near a window as the light streams through, making the colour glow.

The Podo plastic dining chair comes in orange

2. The Podo dining chair

The Podo dining chair is a beautiful piece of modern dining furniture that’s simple and stylish as all contemporary furniture should be. It’s made from Polypropylene and is available in many colours including white, black, red, orange green and blue. Buying a set of these plastic dining chairs will instantly revive a tired looking kitchen, dining room or restaurant and those in the know about design are definitely going to appreciate seeing a set of these when they walk through the door! Podo dining chairs are even hardy enough to be used in an outdoors, and are easily stackable when not in use.

Spartan bar stool in orange

3. Spartan bar stool

This retro bar stool is perfect for any funky club or cafe, or for the home as part of a contemporary kitchen breakfast bar area. The strong chrome legs that extend from the padded seat add a futuristic feel to the stool and make it really stable and comfortable to perch on. This stool is available in various colours of faux leather including juicy orange, as pictured.

The Alto flat duo bench - beautiful contemporary furniture design

4. Alto flat duo bench

This is one really good looking piece of furniture, we think you’ll agree. It’s part of the Alto range, which includes a chair, sofa and panchina available as part of this collection, each coming in a wide range of colours. Your choice of faux leather is upholstered over a metal frame and polyurethane cold injected moulded foam for superb comfort and long-lasting good looks. We can just imagine the Alto gracing a shop, hotel lobby, waiting area or stylish home.

PLEASE NOTE : Many of our items of furniture can be upholstered as you wish, so even if the product specifications do not mention orange, we should be able to help you. Just call us on 08707 605 701 for more information.

Luxury leather sofa from Danetti - neutral and hard-wearing, making it perfect for rental properties

If you have a luxury property that you want to rent out, furnishing it with contemporary sofas, chairs, tables and accessories can help to ensure a quick let and could even allow you to charge more for your property.

The majority of tenants looking at high-end properties want cool, statement furniture, that’s minimalist enough for them to be able to put their own stamp on the property, but comfortable enough for them to feel at home.

We chatted to Marc von Grundherr, who’s Residential Lettings Director at London lettings agency Benham & Reeves to get  his views on the best furniture for luxury lets.

He’s convinced that the furniture you choose can have a huge impact on the speed with which your property will be snapped up by tenants.

“Quality contemporary furnishings are a pre-requisite for letting high-end rental properties. The letting market is extremely competitive with increased supply, particularly in new developments, and more cost-conscious tenants,” he says.

The Drada dining table from Danetti - ideal for luxury rental properties

“As a general rule, unfurnished properties take up to 30% longer to let and in some instances we have seen rent reductions of as much as 40% just to secure a tenant because a property has not been presented in good enough condition to meet the tenants’ expectations.”

Don’t put youself in this position – make sure you have the whole property furnished in a co-ordinating contemporary way – not forgetting the sofa, dining table, dining chairs, beds, and smaller items like lamps and even art work.

Marc says that for a high end property to stand a chance of being let quickly at full market rental then it needs to be furnished to a high standard. “If the property is in a block with others coming on stream at the same time, the furnishings must really stand out from the crowd – this may not get you an increased rental but it will attract a tenant more quickly. Some Landlords make the mistake of going for cheap budget furniture packages but we really would recommend that they do their homework and use a company that specialises in furnishing rental properties. Anything not well furnished will simply not let or will receive substantially reduced offers.”

So there you have it, an expert in the residential lettings field recommending that you don’t try to pull the wool over potential tenants’ eyes by buying cheap furniture – they’ll see straight through it.

At Danetti, much of our furniture is sourced from Europe and quality and design are our priorities when choosing pieces, so prospective tenants are sure to be impressed.

Coco A Frame bar stool - a statement piece of furniture

We pressed Marc to tell us which particular types of furniture are the most popular with tenants in the luxury rental market, and he told us that designer furniture is always popular. He also recommends adding a statement piece of furniture for the wow factor.

As for colour: “Neutral colours are still popular as a backdrop,” he says, while “dramatic and dark decor and furnishings are only really advisable is you’re looking for single male occupants” – the typical bachelor’s pad.

“Modular sofas are still fashionable and leather is always a good option as it’s hard wearing,” says Marc. And although the minimalist look is still popular, you have to be careful not to take that too far, because you want to create an interior that someone can instantly see themselves living in.

Marc von Grundherr, Benham & Reeves

Marc von Grundherr is Residential Lettings Director for London Letting Agency Benham & Reeves, www.brlets.co.uk

Zeta contemporary dining table - great for a kitchen diner

The kitchen-diner has become common-place in modern British homes. Most of us like to have a large space where we can entertain guests around a large dining table or more informally on bar stools while we prepare food in the kitchen.

We had a chat with our fave interiors writer and stylist Rohini Wahi about the trend.

“Most homes I research these days have a kitchen diner,” she says, “they have become such an integral part of modern living – relaxed, fun and certainly more social.”

We agree with her. There’s something exciting and about entertaining in a kitchen-diner that you can’t achieve when the two spaces are separate.

There are a few things that you need to consider when decorating and buying furniture for your kitchen-diner, however.

First, what kind of look do you want to go for? Rohini says: “Emerging trends appear to be sleek and minimal in design but warming up the space are materials rooted in nature. Elements like reclaimed wood counter-tops are coupled with warming modern accessories in soft gold, brushed-metal pendant lights, or groups of vintage industrial lights hung over sleek marble counters.”

Mmm, we like the sound of that. Contemporary furniture mixed with elements from nature like real wood and marble.

Esprit leather bar stool would work well at a breakfast bar

Second, you need to consider the type of furniture to buy. In a kitchen-dining space it’s best to opt for a range of seating, so you can use the space in different ways. Ideally, you should go for a breakfast bar or drinks area with bar stools in the kitchen so people can sit and chat with you while you cook. You should also try to have a modern sofa and coffee table somewhere, so you can have a leisurely sit down and read a magazine while you’re waiting for your food to cook. Last but not least you need a large dining table with plenty of contemporary dining chairs so you can host dinner parties to remember.

Etti Square dining table is a neat choice for a smaller kitchen-diner

Rohini says the way you style the space is all-important as well. “The key is to warm-up the once minimal diner reserved only for bachelor or city living, by mixing elements of modernity with tradition and choosing pieces that flow well in your colour scheme,” she says.

If you want to furnish a kitchen-diner in your home, but need a little inspiration and advice, have a chat to us here at Danetti. We’re happy to help.

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Rohini Wahi

Rohini Wahi has worked for publications including Real Homes, Living Etc, The Telegraph and trend prediction company WGSN, and she writes an interiors inspiration blog at www.thebeatthatmyheartskipped.co.uk

Salve bar stool by Danetti

Here at Danetti, we like to get to know our customers. We chat to them about their interior design schemes and try to get a feel for how their use their living space.What they tell us time after time is that space is really precious in their homes. For many of them, one main room has to work as kitchen, sitting room, dining room and play room. They often don’t want enormous furniture taking up their valuable floor space. And our customers also want the flexibility of having items of furniture that can be brought out when they have friends and family over, but then neatly stacked away when they’ve gone.

Something we specialise in at Danetti, and which we often recommend to our customers, is bar stools. Forget any notion you have of bar stools being uncomfortable and unstable. The ones we stock often come with four solid legs, arm rests and foot rests, and some of them have backs to make them just as comfy as dining chairs. And you’ll be able to find one that looks great, because many of our bar stools are available in several colours – sometimes you can even customise the legs and arms so you get just what you want.

Bar stools work as occasional seating for guests, for tucking under a breakfast bar in you kitchen-diner, for positioning around a small high-rise dining table, and even just for adding a few seats to your current kitchen area. That’s the flexibility our customers wanted. We aim to please!

Take a look at the newest additions to our bar-stool range and see if there’s one you would like in your home … Danetti bar stools