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Five Places to Hang a Hammock Indoors

Posted on by Paul King
Bora Bora Hammock
11
May

Hammocks are favorite additions to your outdoors at home. Did you realize you can bring your hammock or hanging chair indoors, too? Many people love their hammocks so much they want to sleep in them instead of a bed. Installing a hammock indoors is not difficult, so you’ll enjoy making this a do-it-yourself (DIY) project.

While there are literally hundreds of websites with text and/or video to instruct you how to install your hammock indoors, there are few sites with suggestions about “where” to hang your hammock. We’re going to solve that curious problem momentarily. Stay with us.

Places to Hang Your Hammock Indoors

This issue stumps even those who love relaxing outdoors in their treasured hammocks. Don’t worry. It’s easier than you might first think.

  • Your bedroomIf you love taking relaxing, rewarding naps in your outdoor hammock, you’ll probably get the best sleep of your life when you desert the traditional bed and sleep in a comfy hammock.
  • Your living or family roomYour living room, great room, or family room is another ideal place to hang your hammock. If you don’t have a DVR, you better get one, as you’ll find yourself nodding off during movies and games in your always comfortable hammock. Should you think a hanging chair is a better idea to keep you awake till the end of the movie or live game you’re watching, you’re probably wrong. It’s just as easy to find “nap time” in a hanging chair as a hammock.
  • Guest bedroomsGuest bedrooms are ideal places to hang hammocks indoors. Instead of taking up valuable space with traditional beds try hanging hammocks in guest bedrooms. You can always store them away when you’re not entertaining overnight friends or family. Your guests will love the sleep they get in a hammock, if they don’t have one in their yard now. Most of them will install one after trying out restful sleep in your “guest hammock.”
  • A sunroom or “9-month” roomA sunroom, particularly a so-called 9-month room with heat for those cool spring and fall days and nights, is an equally perfect place for your favorite hammock. While a warm, sunny spring or summer day is ideal when you have an outdoor hammock or hanging chair, installing a hammock in a sunroom, even when it’s raining outside allows you to enjoy your hammock even in inclement weather.
  • A finished basementWhen you’ve finished your basement as a game room, TV room, or “man cave,” you have a perfect place to hang a hammock indoors. Since the anchors in the walls are unobtrusive, you won’t have a problem if your finished basement has a lower than average ceiling (under 7 feet) or has a “drop” ceiling (not strong enough to hold your weight in a hammock or hanging chair).

Conclusion

If you love relaxing in your outdoor hammock in the yard, you’ll equally love hanging a hammock indoors in one of these places. You also may have other rooms, e.g., a home office, which might be your personal preference for installing an indoor hammock or hanging chair to be available in all types of weather.

When you’re not using your hammock, you can easily store it in small spaces. Since your wall anchors are harmless, they pose little danger to anyone. If you’re concerned with their presence when your hammock is stored, you can easily cover them with a wall hanging or a plant hanging on the exposed anchor.

As long as you carefully install your anchors into wall studs, they will be secure and support your hammock (with you in it) for long periods, e.g., naps or overnight sleeping. Regardless of the size of your home, you can install a relaxing hammock in almost any room except a bathroom or kitchen. When you’re taking a shower, or making gourmet dishes, you probably won’t want to relax in your indoor hammock or hanging chair.

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Advantages of a Travel Hammock When You’re Traveling

Posted on by Paul King
Travock - Travel Hammock - Dragon
03
May

Travel hammocks are increasingly popular as alternatives to tents, when you go camping, hiking, and/or traveling almost anywhere. Traveling is exciting, but, sometimes, it can become annoying, particularly when you need to navigate airport security. Yet, camping and hiking are popular, healthy alternatives.

Better than most tents, even upscale ones, travel hammocks make traveling easier and more pleasant. There are multiple good reasons why. Whether you’re traveling by car, or using public transportation, e.g., trains, travel hammocks provide distinct advantages for you. When you’re going on long hikes or camping, these advantages will be graphically evident.

Travel Hammock Advantages That Make Traveling Easier and More Comfortable

  • Travel hammocks are versatile, offering you the pick of locations where you’d like to sleep. 

    You can sleep wherever you’d like. Pick your location and you can set it up.

  • Travel hammocks are easy to install if there are some trees around.Just install your travel hammock, which is fast and simple, where you want it. It should only take a few minutes.
  • Travel hammocks are lightweight and ideal when packing space is at a premium (almost always). 

    These hammocks pack small and light. You can literally take them anywhere you want to go.

  • Safely sleep in the great outdoors, since you’re off the ground.Unlike even the best tents, you’ll sleep safely and won’t need to contend with night-hunting ground insects and arachnids (spiders).
  • In summer, you’ll love the cooling air circulation a travel hammock provides. During fall, you can line your travel hammock with a sleeping bag or insulated blanket to keep you warm and toasty.Hammocks promote air circulation around your body, without the confinement of a tent. Even on the cool nights of fall, you can place a sleeping bag in your travel hammock to keep you warm and comfy, instead of trying to sleep on the hard ground.

These are but a sampling of the many benefits travel hammocks offer you. If you like to travel and camp out in the outdoors and you love your hammock at home, you should have a travel hammock to make traveling easier – and lighter.

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Hanging Chairs Vs Regular Furniture – Pros and Cons

Posted on by Paul King
Cayo Hanging Chair - Latte - Medium
26
Apr

Indoor hanging chairs are an exciting addition to any room in your home. If you want to install a hanging chair outdoors on a deck or patio, you’ll feel the same excitement as it is a perfect complement to your regular outdoor furniture.

Pros of Hanging Chairs

These chairs have multiple advantages – and some downsides – when compared to regular furniture, whether indoors or outdoors. Fabric hanging chair-hammocks are the most popular and have the advantages of a hammock as well as a chair.

  • They are aesthically pleasing and interesting;Hanging chairs are stylish additions to any room. When installed outdoors, they are an aesthetic addition to your yard.
  • Relatively easy to install;Installing hanging chairs are an ideal do-it-yourself (DIY) project for the marginally-talented homeowner.
  • Incredibly comfortable for adults and kids;Hanging chairs are supremely comfortable for both adults and children. Just be careful when watching TV or curled up with a book, as you might take a nap, whether voluntary or involuntary, because you’re so comfortable.
  • Offers a striking addition to your décor; andAfter installing a hanging chair, your guests will be challenged not to express their admiration for the exciting addition to your home. You will find most of these guests will want to “try out” your new hanging chair. We can only hope they don’t snore if they can’t help but take a nap.
  • In the right colors, they will complement any furniture type.Whether you match a hanging chair color to your regular furniture or your room walls, you will revel in the statement they make.

Cons of Hanging Chairs

  • You must pick an ideal location, since hanging chairs are not as “mobile” as regular furniture.Your choice of location is vital for the long-term placement of a hanging chair for (a) secure installation, and (b) to maintain your interest over time. You must install it securely to avoid any “accidents” that cause injury to family members or guests.
  • Be careful not to hang it too high off the floor or ground, making it difficult for small children or the elderly (grandparents) to get in and out of it.Whether you install your hanging chair indoors or outside, if you hang it too high, your kids and the grandparents may have a hard time getting in and out of your floating chair-hammock. While your kids will grow, the grandparents may become less, rather than more, flexible over time.

Conclusion

Hanging chairs are great additions to your décor (indoors) or yard (outdoors). You can make them even more comfortable by putting one or more pillows in them.

Handcrafted fabric hanging chairs, like those made by Hammock Heaven, are special, durable, and make a striking addition to any home, garden, or yard.

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A Perfectly-Balanced Hammock Is Good for You

Posted on by Paul King
Iguana Single Hammock - Jungle
19
Apr

Did you know that hammocks offer the perfectly-balanced sleep position for humans? If you did not, you know it now. Even physicians consider a hammock offers the best sleep position for most of us. Many doctors say the perfect sleep position is “. . . lying on one’s back with the head slightly elevated, about 10 to 30 percent. This is postulated to give the brain optimal blood circulation rather than congestion and also allows for more unobstructed breathing.”

You can learn that many native cultures sleep this way in hammocks, “rather than on flat surfaces,” as is common to most western cultures. According to Janet Kinosian, writing for the Huffington Post in 2010 in her article “What Your Sleep Position Says About You,” she examined the link between personality and typical sleep positions.

For example, hardworking businesspersons and entrepreneurs seem to be more likely to sleep on their backs (called the royal position), while persistent, goal-oriented people seem to favor sleeping on their stomach – stomach-sleepers also appear to exhibit dominant compulsive traits.

Health Benefits of Hammocks Are Being Studied

Finally, science is realizing what native cultures have known for hundreds of years. Hammocks provide ideal sleep positions for humans, including children. Medical hammocks constantly become more popular with physicians from all types of specialties. Now hammocks are actively being used to treat premature babies, arthritis, acid reflux conditions, autism, and sleep apnea.

Scientific studies indicate that sleeping in a hammock is an effective road to better health and fitness, along with delivering deep, restful sleep to recharge your human batteries to successfully face a busy day. Quality hammocks slept in properly, with your head slightly raised, reduce stress, while eliminating the chance of falling out on the ground or floor.

A gently rocking hammock has proven to help you fall asleep faster, while having you enjoy a deeper sleep than on a traditional bed. Why gentle rocking motions encourage sleep in babies and adults remains a mystery? But it works, as every parent learns when it’s time for their babies to sleep.

A 2011 study by the University of Geneva (Switzerland) determined that participants fell asleep faster with hammock-like rocking motion, but also changed the type of sleep they enjoyed. Researchers noted a “dramatic boosting of certain types of sleep-related [brain wave] oscillations.”

During each participant’s nap or sleep time, researchers monitored brain activity with an EEG, so they had proof of the brain wave changes. While this pleasantly surprised researchers, they noted the lack of increased brain activity when there was no gentle rocking when a non-rocking traditional flat bed was involved.

The study results displayed the rocking bed heightened bursts of brain activity called “sleep spindles,” which correlate to deep sleep and “memory consolidation.” Study researchers determined the rocking lengthened the duration of “N2 sleep,” non-rapid eye movement sleep that on good nights consumes about one-half of a good sleep.

Conclusion

The gentle rocking you feel with a perfectly-balanced hammock when you sleep does more than give you a super nap and a good night’s sleep, but also improves your brain activity while you sleep. The scientific question fueling future studies: Will the results of this university study encourage further study to learn if hammock power can be focused on treating various sleep disorders, e.g., insomnia.

If you use a balanced hammock to nap or sleep for the night, you will enjoy the sleep of your life, and wake refreshed and alert. The rocking motion you receive from a quality hammock will only help you stimulate your brain while you get the deep sleep you need to function high levels.

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Why You Should Consider a Hanging Chair as Well as a Hammock

Posted on by Paul King
hanging chairs
12
Apr

We often hear the question: Should I consider a hanging chair in lieu of or in addition to a hammock? The best answer: Yes, you should consider a hanging chair as a replacement for or, if you already enjoy a hammock, as a complement to your hammock.

Why Consider Getting a Hanging Chair

Hanging chairs are highly versatile and complement your yard and/or the interior of your home. While some people prefer fabric chairs, others, particularly if installed indoors, sometimes prefer hanging chairs with more rigid frames. Here are popular reasons to consider getting a hanging chair as well as a hammock.

  • You may prefer a hanging chair to a hammock.Some people report they are equally or even more comfortable in fabric hanging chairs than in hammocks. When you want to surround yourself with your spouse and kids, a hammock chair is perfect.
  • If you have kids, be aware that children absolutely love to sit, lie, and play in hanging chairs.Kids love hanging chairs. They like to sit in them, “cocoon” in them, and get in them. They find it easier to get in and out of hanging chairs than some hammocks. Since kids seldom stay relaxed for too long they typically appreciate the ease of getting in and out of hanging chairs.
  • You can “float around” in fabric or rigid frame hanging chairs offering similar relaxation to hammocks.The same gentle rocking motion common to hammocks also exists with a hanging chair. Scientists have proven it’s this gentle swaying that promote excellent, healthy sleep.
  • If you love to read, a hanging chair is ideal for focusing on the book you’re reading as well as relaxation.You’ll be amazed at how focused and relaxed you’ll feel in a hanging chair when you’re reading. You typically will enjoy your book or magazine even more than you normally do.
  • If you already enjoy your hammock, you should equally enjoy the gentle swaying motion of a hanging chair.If you love the gentle rocking motion of your hammock, you will equally love a hanging chair, as it offers the identical rocking as your hammock does.
  • A wonderful addition to a bedroom or family room, a hanging chair is a great way to maximize your comfort while watching TV movies or live sporting events.Hanging chairs are ideal for indoor or outdoor use. Along with being super comfortable, they allow you to enjoy TV and games in supreme comfort.
  • An indoor hanging chair makes a bold statement to any décor.Once in fashion, then out of fashion, hanging chairs are back as high-fashion additions to your home décor. They always make a statement. Since they come in many colors and designs, you’re sure to find an ideal complement your décor.

Whether you consider a hanging chair as an alternative to a hammock or addition to your hammock, you will be pleased with the look and comfort of these chairs. When you want to read, watch TV, or take a short nap in total comfort, consider adding a hanging chair inside or outside your home.

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5 Reason Why Hammocks are Good for your Health

Posted on by Paul King
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05
Apr

Sleeping on hammock makes anyone feel comfortable and amazing. It feels great when you sleep as well as when you wake up. However, not each hammock will be agreeable to spend the night in, so in case you want to sleep on in it, you have to ensure to have a hammock that is planned in view of an entire night’s rest. You shouldn’t need to stress over dropping out of in the night and you would prefer not to wake up with a changeless rope tattoo from considering string or the knots. It will not be wrong at all if we say that Hammocks are great for your health as sleeping on them can give a lot of benefits.
Keep reading the post and check out some amazing health benefits of hammocks.

  1. Anytime when you will decide to sleep on the floor or ground due to any reasons, your each body part will shoots uneasiness signals toward your brain where they illuminate your neuromatrix and advise you that sleeping on the floor is not your cup of tea. The whole night, you have to spend in some difficulty that can directly affect your mood. Of course, comfortable bedding will mitigate this a bit, yet think about what dozing environment gives a zero-weight point environment. Sleeping on Hammock gives you no turning or tossing and it will surely give you a comfortable sleep due to the zero pressure point at the back. This will directly affect your health in of course a positive way.
  2. The persons, who face any kind of difficulties in sleeping at the right time or the time they want, can try hammock as they will make you fall asleep right at the moment when you lay down on it. By this amazing benefit, a person will wake up with a fresh and good mood the next morning and what is better than having a fresh morning? Waking up with such fresh and great mood will also provide health benefits.
  3. You will experience a deeper sleep than you are having before sleeping on a hammock, while having a deeper sleep will make your mind relax and calm. Hammock will not only affect your physical health, it will also affect your mental health in a great positive way.
  4. Have you ever noticed that Hospital beds? They all are intended to lay the patient down on their back, with the head marginally elevated. This gives the ideal blood circulation to the brain instead of blockage and it also supports very few obstructed breathing. Curiously enough, this is a similar position that any hammocks give. On the off chance that you have awful joints pains, an awful back pain, or any other kind of body pains then hammocks are generally suggested to you.

  5. Now a days, a lot of people sits in front of PCs throughout the day, thereafter they wrap themselves on the sofa, and don’t move or take part in other activities or exercises like they ought to which directly causes back aches. The social worldview of sleeping over a bedding is not precisely all the better we can accomplish for our bodies. Furthermore, it can also cause spinal pains. In such situation, hammocks are ideal to use in order to get rid of such pain.

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Hammock Vs Sofa – Why a big hammock like our Supernova is fun for the whole family.

Posted on by Paul King
Supernova Hammock - XXL - Kaleidoscope
22
Mar

Envision having the comfort of a versatile seat, or even a lounge chair so far as that is concerned, without the bother of bearing a group of massive and substantial hardware. Wouldn’t it be great to have the chance of having a big hammock without finding spots to grapple the ropes?

On the off chance that you are confused between a hammock and sofa then for some reasons this ought not be a decision one needs to make and possibly in a perfect world we could all have more amazing and comfortable to get your hands on as compared to sofas. Below are some reasons of why hammock is fun for a whole family rather than a sofa.

  • With some great and big hammocks such as our Supernova, you have boundless choices as to where you can sit or set down. They are lightweight and take up basically no space as compared to the other regular furniture or big sofa.. What’s surprisingly better about our Supernova hammock is that they are super sturdy and you can utilize them fundamentally anyplace you need to, including on rocks, on the shoreline, in the water or on the grass. The best part is that they are a standout among the most agreeable spots to sit or rests and they can truly be utilized anyplace you need.
  • Another amazing advantage of having big hammock just like our supernova is that there is no weight on any piece of your body while you are sitting on it. It makes hammocks particularly perfect for people with a throbbing painfulness that are just exacerbated by hard couches as well as beds.
  • Hammocks can easily be used both inside as well as outside, which means you don’t need to purchase an exceptionally climate sealed couch, which are far more costly than a basic big hammock such as our supernova. In the event that it rains on a hammock, nothing is annihilated or lost- – simply sit tight a couple of hours for it to dry normally or dry it with the dryer.
  • If you are a man on a financial plan, you can pick to get one hammock, just transporting it from inside to the outside porch for a little nap in the sun. It is much simpler with a hammock as compared to regular sofas to simply fall into the comfortable place you need to be in.

  • Depending of how huge a hammock you get, you can fit up to four individuals, resting together, in one hammock, which means the hammock is the more friendly choice for a family rather than a big sofa.

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Hanging chairs vs Regular Furniture – Pros and Cons

Posted on by Paul King
Cayo Hanging Chair - Mocca - Medium
08
Mar

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Pros of Hanging Chairs:

  • You will experience deeper as well as more relaxed and rest full sleep.
  • You can get free from your every day back pain.
  • Hanging chair is very easy to move from one place to another.
  • It occupies very less space as compared to the regular furniture.
  • It is also very less in price as compare to the regular furniture.
  • It is easy to clean and with no more dust mites.
  • It is very comfortable.
  • If you want a new hanging chair then wasting it is not a big deal. It is less waste, lest work as well as less in cost.

Cons of Hanging Chair:

  • Only one person can enjoy sitting on it at one time.
  • If you don’t like slow swings then it is not suitable for you.

Pros of Regular Furniture:

  • It is very strong.
  • It is durable.

Cons of Regular Furniture:

  • Occupy a lot of space.
  • Difficult to move from one place to another.
  • Hard to find good quality furniture.
  • The look and quality can get spoiled if you allow any dust as well as water on it.
  • It may be very expensive.
  • A lot of them are not very comfortable.
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I Bought A Hammock Instead Of A Bed And This Is What Happened..

Posted on by Paul King
Elegance Double Hammock - Ecru
01
Mar

Sleeping on the traditional beds is such a boring thing. It makes us feel comfortable but not at that level at which a hammock can make us comfortable and relaxed.

I decided to give hammock a try so, I went to a market and bought an amazing hammock. I hanged it strongly in bedroom with the perfect balance and slept on it, the whole night. The next morning, I woke up completely fresh and relaxed.

Below are some things I get to know about hammocks by experiencing it myself.

The first thing I experienced that I get asleep way too faster than I usually do at my bed. The experience of quickly falling asleep on a hammock was worth experiencing which any person who has any sleeping problem should try out.

The next morning, when I woke up, I was fresher than I usually do in the morning. Sleeping on hammock is a very comfortable thing and you will surely experience freshness and activeness in the next morning.

Usually, in the mornings, I get so much irritated on little things. But having an amazing sleep on hammock makes me so much calm that I was not even feeling irritated during finding my missing socks to go at my work place and I was searching for it while singing my favorite song. So, none of my family member have to experience my irritation and bad mood (which they usually do every morning) due to one and only “hammock”.

The best thing I find out in sleeping on a hammock is that, I don’t have to make my bed every single morning. Due to my lazy nature, the bed making in the morning is the worst thing that I usually experience. But now, due to my love “hammock”, this headache just went far away from me by making me so much happy.

Last thing which I love about sleeping in a hammock is that it gives some very slow and amazing swings that you literally feel like you are laying on a very comfortable bed in heaven. It is just like a soft music before sleep and one of the best things in hammock.

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Why A Perfectly Balanced Hammock Is Good For You

Posted on by Paul King
Cayo Double Hammock - Coast
22
Feb

If you are one of those people who adores the outside places and love to spend time outdoor then you should have the capacity to think of having something outside the tent with regards to the greater part of your outdoors experience. Since the vast majority will grow up utilizing tents for outdoors, it might be hard to venture fresh to take the jump into a top outdoors hammock. What you ought to know is this is a bit of outdoors rigging that will absolutely change the way that you think about making the most of your outside adventures.

What you have to recollect is that you are not going to give up solace at all when you change from a tent to an outdoors hammock. In actuality, hammock is to a great degree pleasant and considerably more agreeable and simpler to set up and bring down than any tent. A perfectly balanced hammock is the one in which anyone would love to rest and lay down to spend some amazing time. If your hammock is not perfectly balances then there are chances that you may feel discomfort in it.

So, first make sure that your hammock is strongly hanged and is perfectly balanced in order to have a perfect sleep. Sleeping in a perfectly balanced hammock can provide you a lot of benefits including:

Sleeping in a perfectly balanced hammock can increase the chances to cure sleep deprivation. Any individual who has lied in bed anxious for quite a long time attempting to nod off can value this point. According to a study, approximately 40 million individuals in the US experience the ill effects of incessant long term rest issues and every single year an extra 20 million individuals will report trouble nodding off. The normal American rests 6.8 hours each night rather than 8 hours minimum. This ratio can be decreased by having a comfortable sleep which a perfectly balanced hammock can provide easily.

Dissimilar to your bed, resting in a hammock is a significant distinctive ordeal. A person can fall asleep nearly quicker while swinging in a hammock while it could take hours to sleep or take a nap into an ordinary bed. Any individual who has the amazing experience of resting in hammock can realize that it’s extremely hard to remain wakeful for more than a couple of minutes in a hammock. The tender swing of the perfectly balanced hammock goes about as a characteristic bedtime song that stones you to rest.

Daily utilization of perfectly balanced hammocks has been connected with expanded comprehension, learning as well as focus. These astonishing outcomes are accepted to be because of the swinging movement, which synchronizes mind waves, taking into consideration speedier and more profound rest than would regularly be achieved. Completely refreshed individuals have a tendency to perform better on both physic and mental exams, and are extensively more inclined to recall concentrate material when contrasted with their non-rested partners.