Now that the sun is finally breaking out and San Diego is ready to return to outdoor living after a chilly wet winter and gray spring, that furniture of yours may be ready for a reset. If your Adirondack chairs are splitting, your lounge chairs are rusting and that dining set is cracking, it’s probably time to invest in new outdoor furnishings. For my latest story for The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Home & Garden section, I spoke with experts about how to look for pieces made of quality materials, some of which could require some maintenance to keep them in good condition, instead of rusting, fading, cracking or otherwise falling apart within a season or two. Here are their observations and tips.