Actually I have slept in a hammock outside at subzero temps in the past. I was testing in the backyard before doing some winter overnights on the AT here in VT & NH.
For the past couple of years I have used a hinge on top of the door for the entry way into the room. I don't put the hinge on the side of the door for the very reason of trapping the heat and not letting it escape.
I do use the room for more than sleeping. Pretty much all the time I'm in the house I'm in the room doing whatever. I don't need much room but if I want to use the computer I don't want to have freezing hands since I use a laptop and always use the touch pads as mouse pads, by choice. I prefer to have more than just the hammock around me warm. I don't need much other room but some.
I'll bring this back up and give a few more ideas since I finally got the chance to give my idea a try. Granted it was only for a few minutes not a full night but it appears it will do most everything I want it to other than it doesn't have any sides of the hammock to help give a little less of a chance of falling out like all my former hammock setups have given me.
The idea was a two point hang on each end of the hammock. The first is a gathered end which has the knot below a U-bolt and then the cloth goes up and runs behind and over the top a 2x3 bolted into the wall. The 2x3 allows the flatten out of the material so I have flat hammock. It is hung up the same way on both ends. The room is 5 feet long and 3 feet wide, inner dimensions. I've included photos showing, the best I can, the way it hung up.
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OMG!!
This is a really interesting read.. Kudos to you for taking this on.
That said.. small rectangular room brings nothing to my mind than a coffin. I couldn't do it.
What do you do with the rest of what would traditionally be living space in your house?
Yes, my pack weighs 70lbs, but it's all light weight gear....
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Pretty much has become junk storage space. I had to clean some of it up and got rid of some of the junk I had been collecting so I had the room to take down the old room and erect the new room, mainly moving the insulation around. At least there is a bit more walking around space in the rest of the house now compared to what was there before. I only heat the living area not the storage area. Heating the air is the most inefficient way of heating you could ever show me. I am thinking around the idea of body heaters but not sure how, non-chemically, you do it.
Funny thing is since I moved into my friends house I have been spending most of my life living it the same way. I spend most of the time on the couch. Everything I do while I'm in the house is done while I'm on the couch. I surf the web, sleep, etc all on the couch. I realize I don't need the space to do anything other than store junk. I need very little space to make me happy.
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