Thanks jelbell55. We were also tossing up between the Archipelago and the Stoneleigh to begin with. I loved the façade of the Stoneleigh.
That is nice to hear as we have decided on the wooden chairs. They were more comfortable and my husband really liked them. I would have been happy with either the wood or stainless steel ones so was happy to go with the flow on this decision.
We have found a bit of a problem with the Archipelago floor plan. It is really hard to fit a nice sized sofa in the living area. Even though it is a large room the fact that you need to be able to walk either side of the sofa to get to the Alfresco area or the back of the house makes it very squashy! We originally thought a walkway of 1m either side would be sufficient but we are now thinking this would even be too tight! We were trying to buy all our furniture for the new house in the post Christmas sales but I think we have pretty much missed the best bargains on sofas now.