Outdoor Furniture Trends for Spring Summer 2027

Outdoor furniture trends move fast, and half of what gets called a trend is gone again in a year. The pieces worth paying attention to are the ones that actually change how a space gets used, not just how it photographs. This season, that comes down to four real shifts, warmer colour, natural woven texture, genuine modularity and materials mixed on purpose rather than matched in a set. The Lavita Outdoor Spring Summer 2027 collection was built around all four.

Warm, considered colour is replacing cool grey and black

For a few years, outdoor furniture leaned hard into black, charcoal and cool grey. That is shifting toward warmer, more considered tones, sand, olive, mocha and soft neutrals that sit closer to the garden than the driveway.

You can see it clearly across this season's range. The Nimbus corner lounge comes in Sand and Cacao rather than the expected charcoal, the Wedge Outdoor Modular Lounge is offered in Cream and Olive, and the Fraser dining collection runs in Mocha as well as Anthracite. It is a small shift on paper, but it changes how a whole outdoor room reads, warmer and more lived in, rather than showroom perfect. If you want to see the full colour range side by side, our outdoor lounge settings and 2027 Spring/Summer collection have the broadest spread of tones this season.

Pictured: Warm neutral tones are replacing cool grey and black this season.

Woven texture is back, in wicker and rope

Woven texture, wicker, cane and rope, has come back into outdoor furniture after a run of years dominated by smooth aluminium and moulded plastic. It brings a handmade quality into a space that machine finished materials cannot fake, and it pairs naturally with the warmer colour palette above.

The Rozelle 3pc Outdoor Wicker Lounge Set is the clearest expression of this in the new collection, and the same texture carries through into dining with the Kova Rope Dining Chair range and the Flume dining sets offered with Rope Chairs. If woven texture is the direction you are leaning, our wicker outdoor furniture range is worth a proper look before you commit to an all aluminium setting.

Pictured: Woven texture carried through from lounge to dining.

Modular is no longer just a lounge room idea

Modular seating solved a real problem indoors, furniture that reconfigures as your life changes, and it has genuinely carried outdoors this season rather than staying a niche option. Instead of buying a fixed three plus two setting, more people are choosing modular pieces that can be split, extended or rearranged as the space or the guest list changes.

The Wedge Outdoor Modular Lounge, in Cream or Olive, is built exactly for this. It works as a single run against a wall, or reconfigured into a corner setting for a bigger gathering, without needing to buy a second piece of furniture to do it. Our full outdoor modular lounges range covers configurations beyond this season's new colours if you want to compare options.

Mixing materials on purpose, not matching everything in a set

The matched three piece outdoor setting, same material, same colour, top to bottom, is giving way to something more intentional, aluminium paired with ceramic, stone paired with timber tone. It reads as considered rather than corporate, and it is a genuine shift in how outdoor furniture gets designed, not just styled.

The Bester Aluminium Coffee Table with Ceramic Top and the Flume Aluminium Dining Table with Ceramic Top are both built around this pairing, aluminium for the frame's durability, ceramic for a tabletop that will not fade or mark the way some laminates do outdoors. If aluminium framing suits the rest of your setting, our aluminium outdoor furniture range shows the full spread of finishes this pairs with.

Pictured: Aluminium and ceramic paired on purpose, for visual texture.

Furniture for the whole outdoor space, not just the lounge zone

The furniture trend that gets talked about least is the one Lavita has actually been ahead on, poolside and sun lounge pieces treated as a considered part of the range rather than an afterthought bought separately. The Sunwave Outdoor Aluminium Sunlounge and the Swoon Round Outdoor Gazebo Sunbed both carry the same colour and material language as the rest of this season's collection, rather than looking like they were sourced from somewhere else entirely.

If poolside is where your outdoor space is heading next, our outdoor sun lounges range is worth browsing alongside the lounge and dining pieces above, not after them.

The same considered design, whatever the footprint

The last real shift is about range, not size. This season's collection is built to furnish a full backyard entertaining zone just as confidently as a balcony or courtyard, with the same materials, the same colour language and the same build quality carried through every piece regardless of scale. The Fraser and Kova dining collection and the Nimbus and Wedge lounge ranges are built for a full sized outdoor room, while the Lazyarvo range and the Flume Bistro 3 Piece Dining set extend that same considered design into a tighter footprint.

Whatever space you are furnishing, the starting point is the same, our outdoor dining chairs range is worth checking first, since seating width shapes how much table you actually need, at any scale.

Trends change, the build quality should not

Colour palettes and silhouettes move every season. What should not move is the frame quality underneath them. Every piece across the Spring Summer 2027 collection, whatever the colour, material or footprint, comes with the same standard three year structural warranty, giving you confidence in what is actually holding the piece together, not just how it looks this year.

Colour, texture and material are genuinely hard to judge from a photo, warm tones especially shift under different light. Come into a Lavita Outdoor showroom to see how this season's collection compares against the rest of our outdoor furniture range in person. Find your nearest showroom.