Hi Hammockers!
Thanks for all the helpful information here on Hammock Forums. After reading all of the testimonials about how wonderful hammock sleeping is, I want to give it a try as my bed replacement. After inheriting a mattress with a pit of despair in it from the roommate who has gone before me, I'm ready for a cradling hammock alternative!
I've never gone camping (though after reading hammock forums, who knows-- maybe I will!) and I'm not handy with power tools.
I'm planning on hanging in my bedroom, but my landlady nixed my impulse to put eye-bolts in the walls.
From my reading on hammock forums, I'm guessing that I should get a gathered-end Brazilian hammock, since I'm in MA, it's August and 60 degrees at night (no meaningful central temperature control in this old house-- we only set the temps to mid-60s in the chill of winter, too).
I have a few questions:
1. I'm 5 feet tall and 110-120 lbs (depends on my ratio of running to catch the bus to eating sweets), should I still get a double-hammock, or XL hammock, or will I be swallowed/smothered in fabric?
1.5. The longest side of my room is about 14' and the shortest side would have about 8' in length once clearance for furniture is taken into account. Am I right that the 14' length should be sufficient for hanging a suitable full-time hammock from a stand?
2. How do indoor full-timers handle the bedding-- top quilt, sheets, etc. to prevent everything from ending up on the floor? I seem to have issues with evening temperature regulation-- much tossing of covers and shifting multiple layers of blankets at times in bed-- middle of the night recoverings and kicking covers down are not unusual for me. I'm contemplating modding a duvet cover for my full-size down comforter to make it wrap me like a burrito around the hammock this winter.
3. How do indoor full-timers handle furniture around their hammocks? I'm a read-in-bed and then sleep person, how much clearance should my hammock have between it and things like my bookshelf/night stand-- should things I want to reach from the hammock be placed not at the top where the gathered end is connected to a stand, but further down? Can I double my hammock as my desk chair if I put my desk on the side of and around the middle of my hammock?
4. Any hammock and stand combination recommendations? Or any suggestions on cottage DIYers who would be willing to sell me a stand suitable for full-timing that is able to be disassembled, if I feel like opening up the room? Or any suggestions for a good retail source of hammocks and stands in MA?
I am currently considering the following options:
http://www.hammockuniverseusa.com/co...niversal-stand -- the shorter 9' stand had some reservations expressed about it in the forums, but since I'm short too, maybe it could work?
http://www.hayneedle.com/product/isl...withwheels.cfm -- I'm a little nervous since the stand details on this one are rather scanty.
A few of my friends and family think I'm crazy for contemplating this (telling my mother that the people on the internet sleep in hammocks full-time and say it's great hasn't been successful in convincing her this is a sensible idea for some reason), but I loved the cradling/nesting feeling of my roommate's double papasan in college when I wrapped myself up in the cushion, and something about sleeping in mid-air sounds delightful to me.
Thanks for reading my novel of a post and sharing any ideas you have!
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