I tested bargain egg chairs – the winner from Dunelm is perfect for curling up on autumn evenings

AN EGG chair is the cleanable spot to curl up successful your plot some successful the summertime and beyond.

These stylish swing chairs have a distinctive, cocoon signifier and they are much than conscionable determination to remainder your legs.

They are a connection portion and tin truly spruce up your outdoor space.

There are immoderate truly innovative designs for 2024 and arsenic brands vie for business, the erstwhile unaffordable point is present wrong reach.

Whether you person a ample garden oregon a tiny patio oregon balcony, there's an egg chair. 

I tested retired immoderate bargain buys - here's what I thought.

Grey Faux Rattan Hanging Egg Chair

• £149.99, vonhaus.com

I loved this ovum chair. What struck maine astir astir it was the comparatively escaped structure, which makes it look antithetic to rivals.

I disquieted it wouldn't beryllium arsenic sturdy oregon comfy arsenic a effect - but I was wrong, this proved rather robust.

It makes you consciousness cosy and cocooned without cutting you disconnected from your surroundings completely, and would mostly beryllium cleanable for a agelong autumn evening.

It has an on-trend modern grey finish, too, and the heavy and plush grey cushioning was the comfiest we tried.

The handbasket folds level for slimline storage, but there's besides a robust pulverization coated robust basal and galvanised alloy framework if you privation to support it retired each twelvemonth long.

You tin clean the cushions efficaciously by sponging down with a lukewarm sponge and mild detergent.

• Ease of assembly: 8/10

• Durability: 9/10

• Value for money: 8/10

• Comfort: 10 /10

Overall score: 10/10

Charles Bentley Egg Shaped Garden Swing Chair

• £230, wickes.co.uk

Make the astir of lazy afternoons with this chic, unfastened weave rattan chair.

It's supported by a sturdy grey alloy framework and the cushions were other heavy and comfy.

Super casual to maintain, the chair is showerproof truthful you don't person to interest astir leaving it extracurricular each twelvemonth circular - though you tin besides bargain a matching cover.

It took longer than each the other chairs to build, but it is simply a sturdier and much robust arsenic a result.

Good quality. The heavy comfy cushions made it hard to get retired of.

• Ease to assemble: 7/10

• Durability: 10/10

• Value for money: 6/10

• Comfort: 9/10

Overall score: 8/10

OHS Foldable Hanging Egg Chair

• £95, onlinehomeshop.com

This is an ingenious plan and a large terms from OHS, adjacent if you lone person a tiny abstraction you could bask this full-sized egg chair at home. 

While astir are woven successful inflexible poly-rattan, this 1 boasts a clever enactment plan which means it tin fold flat.

This is ace useful if you are abbreviated connected abstraction oregon adjacent if you privation it to beryllium stored distant implicit winder.

The earthy rattan (and rope) egg chair comes implicit with a charcoal-coloured spot cushion which makes it look chic and modern and the framework was sufficiently beardown contempt being slimmer than most.

• Ease of assembly: 9/10

• Durability: 8/10

• Value for money: 10/10

• Comfort: 7/10

Overall score: 8/10

Grey Cocoon Egg Chair (Dunelm)

• £189, dunelm.com

I thought this Dunelm chair was a large option. Instead of rattan, it's made with waterproof textilene cloth giving it a much modern vibe and making it suitable for usage each twelvemonth round.

The mediate seating portion is smaller than astir and it's a small little to the ground, truthful if you are peculiarly ample oregon gangly you mightiness privation to prime a larger model.

It's foldable and casual to store, but it was harder to enactment unneurotic than each the others I tested.

Despite each that, it rapidly became the children's favourite spot - and mine.

Overall I thought it offered the cleanable blend of practicality and elegance. It's comparatively affordable too.

• Ease of assembly: 6/10

• Durability: 7/10

• Value for money: 8/10

• Comfort: 10/10

Overall score: 9/10

Vita5 Egg Chair

• £169.95, amazon.co.uk

This foldable polyrattan chair felt rather robust with a unchangeable framework and a generous seating area.

The hanging handbasket is made of integrative mesh, alternatively than rattan, and is not apt arsenic durable arsenic others but it does fold successful fractional for casual storage.

The powder-coated alloy framework was precise robust and the brushed fabric padded cushions were precise comfy.

The hanging chair did person a inclination to plaything against the pole, which made this a little relaxing acquisition than I hoped for.

• Ease of assembly: 7/10

• Durability: 5/10

• Value for money: 6/10

• Comfort: 5/10

Overall score: 5/10

Dobbies Folding Egg Chair

• £139.90, dobbies.com

This ovum seat is rather compact compared to others, but it inactive offered a cosy spot to unwind, nary substance the weather.

It's stylish, debased attraction and has a distinctive oval shape.

One of the biggest bonuses of this chair is that it folds up for casual storage.

It was 1 of the quickest and easiest to acceptable up, too, with a somewhat smaller basal if you are choky connected space.

The cushions are other brushed and spongy, but they are besides removeable and cleaned up good with a elemental sponge clean.

A bully bargain wide if you're abbreviated connected space.

• Ease of assembly: 7/10

• Durability: 8/10

• Value for money: 7/10

• Comfort: 7/10

Overall score: 7/10

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