Indoor outdoor patio seating

Rain at seven, sun at eight. 10 pieces here carry both an indoor and a patio listing, so the same seats can work the sidewalk at lunch and the dining room when the weather turns. The range runs from slim metal chairs and bar stools to faux teak armchairs and a resin club chair, loveseat and sofa. Choose by the trip they make.

Seats that cross the threshold

Some operators move chairs inside every time the sky darkens. If that is your night, pick pieces that are listed for both places and light enough to carry. A silver-finish metal chair is 15 1/2 inches wide and weighs 14 pounds; its bar stool partner in distressed black stands 43 inches tall. Both come in silver and distressed black, so a sidewalk row and an indoor rail can match. At 15 1/2 inches, these slim chairs leave the most room between seats, which helps where a two-top squeezes between a planter and the curb. Both are rated to 400 pounds.

Faux teak slats on aluminum or metal frames make up another group. A white aluminum chair with a grey faux teak seat has an 18-inch seat and an armchair partner. One black metal armchair here is marked for covered patios only. Read that line before it lives on an open patio.

The lounge corner

Three resin pieces set up a lounge: a club chair 33 inches wide, a loveseat at 55 and a sofa at 78, all 31 inches deep and all with arms. The club chair has a fabric seat. The loveseat and sofa sit on resin.

These are the heaviest seats in the group, from 40 to 80 pounds, so they are the ones that stay put. Give them a spot under cover for the season's end, and set patio tables nearby for the dining side of the space.

Where to look next

• Patio chairs for the full outdoor chair range
• Patio bar stools for more stools at bar height
• Metal patio furniture for steel and painted metal frames

Prices start around $104 for a single chair and reach $976 for the three-seat sofa. Patio chairs carry a six-month warranty, and indoor furniture used outdoors falls outside it entirely, one more reason to buy seats that list both places.

Three pieces here stack. The rest carry in one at a time, so count the trips before you count the seats. An outdoor plan holds a note for each piece, including where it spends the night.