"Tim" wrote:

If you are comfortable on it, who cares what we all might think. My wife
and I had empty paint buckets (5 gallon size, 1 gallon would just be silly)
as our first chairs in our apartment. We had no mattress, just our blankets
and pillows on the floor in the bedroom. Our dining table/coffee table was
2 more buckets with a board across the top. :-)

Wow... you guys really did start out with little huh?!

Seriously...... not many people would do that

The only caution I would have would be the strength of the patio furniture
for those on the heavier side of life. I have some friends who may not want
to sit on patio furniture because it might give way. Plastic/Wicker may not
be sturdy enough for extended use.

yeah.... most of the new patio furniture I've looked at
such as at Home depot and Walmart say something abt a
300 lb limit on the love seat