Bringing outdoor rattan garden furniture indoors?

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Having a disagreement with DH.

We have a large orangery - a beautiful room - which is basically wasted as it has a formal dining table (rarely used as we have a kitchen table) and a small, hard, two-seater sofa which is only really suitable for one. It's basically being used as the world's most expensive drying and ironing room! However kids have now left home (mostly) and we could stick the ironing board in DS's old bedroom.

DH was starting to pack up our outdoor rattan garden furniture cushions etc and I suggested we move the two-seater sofa out and bring the the rattan sofa, coffee table and a chair into the orangery to form a 'corner cluster' where we could read newspapers/ have a coffee etc until it got too cold later in autumn (we don't tend to heat that room in winter).
DH just dismissed it instantly as if it was a stupid suggestion. When I asked why not, his arguments were that the furniture was 'only for outdoors', 'was dirty' (it's not, and anyway it could be brushed and cleaned) and it 'would look silly' (I disagree).

It's not the most elegant furniture - a bit square and boxy - but I figure it would give us a chance to test out if we'd use the room more if there was a 'coffee corner' in there? I would soften it up with cushions and blankets etc.

Is that really weird, or is DH just being a grump?

Sounds lovely! Try it - if it doesn’t work nothing is lost. If you like it, it can either stay or you can opt to upgrade the furniture in some way, or leave it and have new garden furniture.

We had a similar arrangement and I loved it.

Transformed an otherwise unused space.

Given that you already have the furniture, you've nothing to lose by giving it a go.

Seems like a good idea to me and it's lightweight to move about too.

We have an outdoor hanging chair that comes into the house for the winter. We initially had it in the kitchen (so basically through the wall from where it sits outside) but last year put it in the playroom at the front of the house and it worked really well. Will do the same thing this year. It tends to have a lot of spiders in it at this time of year but they're easily dusted away.