White wall. It does fade and we have to redo ours every couple of years so it depends on how much maintenance you want.
Lots of brightly coloured and scented plants in them. A good plant nursery can advise on which to buy so you have flowers at different times of the year, but you need to tell them how much sun the area gets.
You could put some trellis up with climbing plants such as sweet peas or clematis. Clematis will spread horizontally if you don't have much height to the wall.
Lavender is a good one for colour, smell and seems to do well in our garden where it's exposed to wind and sun.
For furniture, I'd go for metal that won't rust so you can leave it out if you don't have anywhere to store it.