If you are considering ordering some rattan furniture, the first thing you need to consider is where you are going to purchase it from, and where you are going to put it.  Most of the time, people who are getting their first wicker furniture want to get something for the outside, specifically wicker patio furniture, or other types of outdoor wicker.  They believe that wicker is too coarse for the inside of a home, and for most people, this actually may be a correct assumption.  But some people are able to work wicker into their homes – the most obvious place for this is a sun room or a closed in patio area, because both actually resemble the outdoors more than they resemble the inside rooms of the house.  Some people can work wicker into their kitchen area, and some can work it into their bedroom or sitting rooms, but most people prefer to leave the wicker outside, in a garden setting, or somewhere that is an outdoor congregation point for people.  Often times you will see wicker furniture on the wrap around porches of large houses, or in manicured gardens with stepping stones and flowers with names that no one can pronounce.  There are so many more uses for wicker than most people can imagine, but there are several places in particular that wicker products would look perfectly right in, mainly outside, or in sun rooms, or other small rooms, and potentially in every room of the house.