Hammocks. What a great thing to relax when you are on vacation, especially if it happens to be a beach with an amazing view. Imagine the white beach and sky blue water right in front of you and the cool wind blowing through your face and through the locks and lengths of your hair. Imagine yourself in the swimsuit of your favourite colour taking deep breaths of fresh air and just swinging away beneath the palm trees. Alone in solitude and peace.
What a bliss, isn’t it?
I can bet that while reading this you couldn’t help but picture yourself in that hammock. You may also have added details to that imagination, maybe wearing a hat and basking in the warm rays of the early summer sun or maybe just cuddling with your lover with a cocktail drink in your hand.
But what is this thing about Hammocks that people are crazy about?
It’s the swinging feature of the hammock that people enjoy the most. Made out of ropes, it’s easily portable and can instantly be turned into a relaxing hanging bed anywhere and anytime. All you need is two poles to suspend the hammock from and you’re good to go!
Hammock Chair
Hammock chairs can be used both indoors and outdoors. You can keep them outdoors in the balconies or the terrace and in the garden and by the pool. These are usually the ones that are suspended horizontally from two opposite ends. They have a wooden stand and can withstand greater weights.
Some hammock chairs make for a great piece of furniture for
decorative furnishing so you can keep them in your bedroom, in the corner if you like, and swing and relax away if the bed is just not good enough for you. These are usually single seating hammocks with a comfortable cushion seating and can comparatively take smaller weights since it suspends from the stand itself.
Types of Hammock Chairs
Hammocks come in mainly two styles – One with the stand that suspends horizontally from the two opposite ends and the other is the hanging hammock chair that suspends vertically from the top of the stand. Now Hammock chairs are more comfortable since they are especially designed to give you a more cosy feel. They are also safer compared to the regular hammocks that are suspended from somewhere.
Guaranteed that at least once you have thought of the chances of your hammock losing its grip and dropping you. Now either that could be embarrassing for you or it could be a scary thought if you are afraid of falling. But with hammock chairs, there is no need to worry about that problem. Hammock chairs are specially modelled with extra grip and are sturdy enough to take the weight of a full-grown adult.
Some hammock chairs are just designed with plain ropes and are the simplest and the cheapest ones while the others are comfortable and relaxing with a good set of hammock seats and are usually the ones that people are going for in the current market.
They usually have a stitched quilt seating or even soft cushion bedding for you to chill on. You can also cuddle in it with your pet as it is devised to withstand additional small weights.
Hanging Chair Hammocks
Unlike conventional hammocks, hanging chair hammocks are suspended from one point and are mainly designed for sitting rather than lying down. Because they are small and shaped like a hanging nest.
Hanging chair hammocks are typically used in the traditional South American relaxation culture that meets the modern and contemporary designs of interior and exterior furnishing. Hanging chairs are perfectly suited for you to use both outdoors as well as your indoors.
You can place them anywhere to style a particular spot in your backyard, patio, porch or pool decks. As a matter of fact, they are also stylish enough to be used indoors in any corner of the house.
Hanging chairs can hold on an average of 450 lbs or 200 kgs but there are some hanging chair hammocks that can take up to even 600 pounds of weight. The weight limit should always be present on your hammock usage instruction booklet and should be checked with first before buying it. It is advised that the safest weight for a hanging hammock chair is around 300 lbs or within 140 kgs.
Uses of a Hanging Hammock Chair
Hanging hammock chairs are used for many health benefits. You may be wondering how that is possible and how a hammock can possibly be related to health benefits. Well, apart from contributing to physical benefits, hammock chairs have been proved to show mental many benefits. It has been used by many therapists for years now to relax their clients who are often stressed and anxious when they come to them.
They have also been scientifically proven to reduce and ease back pain and neck pain. Because half of us are experiencing them on a daily basis and struggling with these pains almost every hour. Especially after those long hours of sitting and working in front of a computer. No matter how much effort you put into maintaining the right posture throughout the day, at the end of your tiring day you always end up with one of these annoying back pain.
Conclusion
Hanging Hammock Chairs are ultimately the best chairs to relax and enjoy a retreat while listening to music and swinging away by the pool deck if you are lucky enough to have one at your home.
Just throw in your feet in the air and swing back and forth till you get tired and fall asleep on the softest pillows cuddling with your partner or pet. How blissful does that sound? Maybe not as blissful as relaxing on a beach but you sure can get a close soothing feeling right inside your house.
