I love wicker. I use them to furnish my apartment. I like their texture and their earth tones. I've slowly been furnishing my apartment for the last few months, and have been successful in making it look more like a home and less like a halfway house. I've been partially obsessed with getting furniture and appliance in here. The wicker baskets have been great accents to the the entire place. They somehow soften the hard edges of my wood and wrought iron furniture. They also make great laundry baskets and storage for clothes (those clothes you keep and only take out when the weather gets cold).
I need more of them, though. I'm trying to get rid of all the industrial plastic I have. I'm beginning to have an aberration to plastic. So, maybe I should visit Dapitan for good wicker material Soon (Moonpools and Caterpillars).