For those of you who want to make the bed every morning, Murphy beds are the shit. They're also expensive and need to be anchored pretty severely to the wall. I slept in a hammock for 18 months. You wanna talk about space-saving...
I've always kind of wondered if there could be a kind of murphy bed that, instead of folding into a cabinet, rose up to the ceiling and was held there by a counter weight? hmm... something like this, but my idea was infinitely more janky, with pullies and that yellow nylon rope that seems to be available at every hardware store.
You can suspend beds from the ceiling, for sure, but you have to build the ceiling for it. Most ceiling joists aren't particularly load-bearing. That's actually a lot less janky than what you linked - the part they don't show you on the wall? Yeah, that's basically a forklift built into your house. All you're seeing is the tines. Everything else is hidden in the wall somewhere - that's the kind of structure this neat little trick uses. Kill-you-dead level structure. It's like this thing. note the amount of effort he goes through to document what a bitch it is to get those magnets apart. Now ask yourself if you want to sleep on top of eight of those and just how hairy it's gonna get when the guy wires go.
XL peruvian. You want the giant, hand-woven kind without spreader bars. Like this one. If you're anywhere vaguely cold you'll want a sleeping bag or something; the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Trust me, you can say the very same thing about air mattresses. The one thing I didn't anticipate is that if the air in your room gets cold, you can't wrap in a blanket and be fine, because the air in your mattress will also freeze. I've been using a sleeping bag. That's surprisingly cheap. I was thinking of the $50 camping-style ones that compress for storage. But they aren't great for sleeping and this one looks way nicer.the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Not gonna lie. Had an air mattress, too - I'd say I spent 70% of my time in the hammock and 30 on the air mattress. Pile a bunch of blankets on top of it, it helps. Hammocks.com used to be awesome. They still seem to have a bunch of stuff under wayfair or whatever but their prices went up. You want a "family-size" hammock. Me and the wife have shared it. She doesn't like it because i weigh roughly twice what she does so it conforms to me while she kinda gets to deal. But if it's just you? Hoo boy. Theyz nice. Mine is currently on my deck.