There's plenty of reason to get excited about choosing your pub furniture - this is a truly iconic area of the commercial furniture market, with contemporary designs that are breaking new ground even now, and classic styles that date back centuries and were equally groundbreaking at the time of their invention.
Intricate scroll ironwork, carved wood and delicate, decorative bentwood furniture all allows you to raise the bar (no pun intended) in your pub's interior design scheme, while giving punters somewhere comfortable to sit and enjoy a freshly poured pint or a glass of wine.
Timeless classics
Going back to those age-old designs that are still firm favourites, there's plenty of reason to opt for traditional pub furniture even if your venue is opening as new for the first time, or aimed at a younger, contemporary customer base.
Try to do anything too avant garde and you risk missing the mark - but fill a pub with elegant, dark wood pub furniture, and any customers who walk in will see exactly what they expect, which is unlikely to prove off-putting to most.
Function with frills
Pub furniture can look good while still fulfilling its purpose perfectly well - and that applies both to the classic designs and to modern-day alternatives - so for maximum visual impact, look to the styles that have made themselves known at different periods throughout history.
Double-layer poseur tables and pedestal tables provide an elegance that is hard to match, but for a contemporary interior, look for clean lines and rich materials like leather; when you're designing with a 'less is more' ethos, simplicity itself can be a 'frill'.
Whatever the weather
Pubs in some locations - particularly on walking routes or on the coast - might have to accommodate more customers with wet or muddy boots, or hikers and climbers with mud from head to toe in extreme circumstances.
But pub furniture is designed to meet such demands, and careful selection can ensure you have comfortable, durable and most importantly of all, wipe-clean furniture that can be brought back to its best with a sanitising spray and a clean cloth once your grateful patrons have finished recharging their batteries.