Specifying by venue
Furniture chosen for what the venue does to it.
A terrace that clears for events, a pool deck used by strangers every day of the season, and a courtyard where residents need to be able to stand up unaided are three different specifications, and only one of them is about how the furniture looks. These pages set out what makes each venue hard and what this house specifies against it.
Trade, contract and volume work goes through the Custom & Contract desk, which takes a whole schedule rather than an order.
Venue types
Golf clubs
A golf club buys outdoor furniture roughly twice a decade, in front of a membership that will notice, with a committee that has to justify the number. That is a different purchase from a café refit — the failure that matters is not year one, it is year seven, when the frames are still sound but the terrace looks tired and nobody budgeted to replace it. Everything below is written around that gap.
Read the specification →Hotels & resorts
Outdoor furniture for Australian hotels and resorts: pool-deck loungers, terrace dining and shade specified for constant sun, chlorine, salt and guest turnover.
Read the specification →Restaurants, cafés & bars
Commercial outdoor furniture for Australian restaurants, cafés and bars: stacking chairs, bar-height tables and shade for footpath dining, courtyards and rooftop terraces.
Read the specification →Wineries & cellar doors
Outdoor furniture for Australian wineries and cellar doors: long tables, terrace seating and shade for exposed lawns, specified for weather and weekend turnover.
Read the specification →Aged care & retirement living
Outdoor furniture for Australian aged care and retirement living: stable seating with arms, courtyard and balcony pieces, and shade for gardens residents use daily.
Read the specification →Sports & recreation clubs
Outdoor furniture for Australian sports and recreation clubs: bowls greens, tennis and surf clubs — spectator seating, terraces and shade that take a season of use.
Read the specification →Padel & wellness clubs
Outdoor furniture for padel clubs, bathhouses, saunas and recovery venues in Australia: seating for wet areas, bare skin and constant turnover between bookings.
Read the specification →Aquatic centres & pools
Outdoor furniture for Australian aquatic centres and public pools: deck loungers, shaded seating and durable frames for chlorine, bare feet and constant public use.
Read the specification →Civic & community
Outdoor furniture for Australian councils and community facilities: plazas, forecourts, libraries and civic centres, specified for public durability and access.
Read the specification →Custom & Contract
One desk for the whole property.
Multi-area schedules, volume, made-to-order pieces and refurbishment of furniture already on site — all of it starts with a brief rather than a catalogue.
These pages describe how Casualife specifies for each venue type; they do not claim any particular venue as a client. Casualife distributes these houses in Australia and does not manufacture them.