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So you’re looking at new ways to uplift and revitalize your home and lifestyle? Well, we have a few tricks up our sleeve and there’s a good chance you’ll never have tried what we’re about to suggest before!

Call it a rarity if you will, but there just aren’t that many homes around that make artful use of a daybed porch swing, and it sure isn’t from a lack of availability. All you need to pull off some of these pointers is a little spirit of creativity and a little help from us here at Four Oak Bed Swings.

With no further ado, here are some of the best ways you can revitalize your home and lifestyle with a daybed porch swing from our catalog.

1. Spruce up your porch

Let’s face a simple truth - not every porch is graced with the unmistakable, unforgettable character of a porch swing. In fact, we’d even venture far enough to say that most are not!

Despite the fact that we’ve been featured on HGTV and are critically acclaimed for our quality and unique designs, there is still so much room around the country for folks to up their exterior design and offer a really unique perspective on porch arrangement.

Now, admittedly, even though you can spruce up your porch with a bed swing, ours are made from Southern Yellow Pine and not spruce, but nonetheless, they will lend an unmistakable quality of refinement to your porch, whether on the front porch or in the back.

People used to rubberneck to see spectacles of the road, but if you’re the first one on your block with a porch swing from Four Oak Bed Swings, they’ll be slowing down to check out your new style. Just call it a ‘Porsche’ swing!

2. Jazz up your living room

Porch might be in the name, but a porch isn’t the only area in your home where you can make out like a thief with a traditional porch swing. You can add them to just any room in the house, but pump the brakes cause the living room is up next.

You entertain company on the porch, but you don’t stop there, right? Any time that you do your indoor entertaining you’ll be needing something to invigorate your sense of interior design, and perhaps your secret weapon should be reserved for the inside of your home where only intimate company comes to visit.

After all, maybe you’re the reserved type that doesn’t like to flaunt your airs about the town, and there’s nothing wrong with that. A little bit of grace and poise are in store for all of us, and maybe a day bed swing is in your cards - for the interior of your home.

Plus, if you really want to get one for the relaxation of it, what better place could there be for one than your living room, where you will presumably spend an appreciable amount of your time?

3. Give your bedroom a facelift - or a bed lift, if you will

But it doesn’t stop there, because if you really are the type who likes to play cards on the down low, then the best place in your home for a swing bed is your bedroom, where you can really go to get away from it all - and that’s exactly what a daybed swing from our collection can provide for you.

A bed swing goes with the harmony, peace, and quiet of your bedroom like gloves go with a hat and coat. If you’re looking for a toned-down way to make a statement for your home while still adding value to it, then the place in your home where you should add a bed swing is most certainly your bedroom.

Besides, you won’t miss out on all of the other benefits that one of our models can offer you by doing so - you’ll just be reserving your appreciation for our designs to the most personal room in your home and there’s nothing wrong with that!

4. Synchronize with your interior design aesthetic, no matter what it is!

Another great thing about our bed swings comes in the form of the fact that you can mesh with whatever vision you have for your home, with almost no exceptions. The only place one of our bed swings might seem a little amiss would be in only the most reserved of traditional aesthetics, and even then, you could tweak the aesthetic slightly to make one work.

No, by contrast, you will be absolutely amazed at how well - how effortlessly - you will find yourself able to work a bed swing into the design of your home. In fact, we recently wrote a comprehensive guide detailing some of the most prevalent design themes in the country at present and just how exactly you can get a bed swing to work with them. You can read our guide to designing themes and bed swings in our blog at the link above.

If you’re going for a coastal or a nautical theme, you’ll be impressed at how well our natural manila rope swings mesh with that design aesthetic. If, by contrast, you are a fan of industrial chic design, you’ll be similarly impressed with the decidedly industrial look of some of our swings. For you ruralists out there, the exposed, reclaimed wooden look of some of our bed swings will please.

In short, you won’t run out of inspiration while perusing our catalog!

5. Get better sleep

Another thing that we have touched on in our blog is the potential for you to get better sleep, if not better rest and relaxation, by the aid of our bed swings. Now, honestly, a lot of the testimony that would assert the matter is anecdotal, but there is quite the corpus of anecdotal evidence at that, so take it for what you will, but it does demand attention.

People all over the world sing the praises of sleeping in a hammock because they claim that it gives them a better night’s sleep. There is a saying that ten thousand Frenchman can’t be wrong, and there is a lesser-known saying that we just coined that slightly fewer bed swing enthusiasts can’t be wrong either.

There’s also been research (inconclusive, but still) that suggests that sleeping in a hammock or a swing simulates sleeping in the womb, where the rhythmic motions you will experience syncopate with your brain waves to help facilitate sleep.

True or not, perhaps the best way for you to find out for yourself is simply to try it. Sleep in a bed swing for a night and see how you feel. You just might find it gives you your best sleep yet.

6. Set out to sea without leaving the porch

Another thing you may simply love about a daybed porch swing is the feeling it will offer you the very moment you jump into one. This is especially true for you out there who own boats - or just those of you who like to be on the water.

The sensation of resting in a rocking bed swing is uncannily like that of being on a boat in a gentle chop, or even slightly more gentle rising and falling waters. Any one of you reading this who appreciates the feeling of being on the water when it’s not glassy smooth will probably love the feeling of being in a bed swing in motion.

Hop into one and you will immediately be transported to memories of a morning on the water. The bed will swing and sway gently under the impetus of your movement before slowly fading away. With each of your subtle movements, the swing will respond in kind, not entirely unlike a vessel.

That’s a bit of a niche appeal, but there are definitely people out there who will be drawn to it!

7. Disconnect and relax more

Even if you aren’t drawn to the eerie similarity between the feeling of being in a bed swing and being on a boat, or to the idea that it might help you sleep better, you’ll definitely be able to relax and unwind more with the aid of one.

Put one on your porch and make it your chosen spit for unwinding with your preferred drink at the end of a long day, or make it a habit to catch up on some good literature in one in the corner of your room.

Whether you use it to help you sleep or not, you will find the draw of a porch swing undeniable, especially after you experience one. Right now the mere thought of it might be nothing more than a temptation, but if you ever get one of your own, the draw will be intoxicating!

8. It will improve the value of your home

Another thing that you won’t be able to deny is that the addition of a swing bed to some area of your home - whether exterior or interior - will add value to your home. Full size, twin size, weather-resistant, whatever accessories you pair with them, none of that matters because all of our swing beds are made to represent the highest possible level of quality and for their scarcity alone will put the accent mark on your home to increase its value by a margin.

As we mentioned near the outset of this article, there just aren’t that many homes around rocking swing beds or porch swings despite the opportunities they present. It’s a quick and relatively easy way to add some unexpected value to your home and just might be the uncontested gem of your domicile!

9. If nothing else, it will be a great conversation starter!

If you have no other reason besides personal preference to want to include a porch swing bed into the design of your home, but you need one anyway, consider this: it will serve as a conversation starter among all types of company.

Due in part to the same scarcity that will enable them to add value to your home, a swing bed will give your company a jumping-off point to learn more about your home and the inspiration that guided its decoration.

No one is going to enter your home and fail to notice your swing bed - and that’s almost a certainty. If you’re looking for a way to pass unmistakable, undeniable, unforgettable character into the genes of your home, you can do it with a swing bed. True, you can do it in other ways, but you can definitely do it with a swing bed!

Reach out to Us!

If there are two things that matter to us here at Four Oak Bed Swings, they are the uncompromised quality of our products and the customer experience that we provide our clients.

In the way of quality, we only produce our daybed porch swings from the finest components such as Southern Yellow Pine, which is both light and strong, as well as sustainable. We craft the frames from these and then complete the joints using age-old, proven techniques, and high-quality adhesives. In fact, the glues we use are so durable that the finished joints are stronger than the wood itself.

We then finish each bed swing with no fewer than three coats of high-quality outdoor grade varnish so that your bed swing will stand up not only to the elements but to the seasons as well. Then, we complete the picture with 1-inch manila rope and give our customers the choice of how they want their bed swing colored.

That quality, in part, affects the customer experience, but we see that on a separate front. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to us and we would be more than happy to answer any questions you have. Ask us for product suggestions, or for design advice; let us clear up any questions you have on how we make our products. Give us a call at 334-202-2870 today and we’ll help you out - and remember, our products ship assembled, and they ship for free, too!

Here it is - the definitive guide you’ve been waiting for. You’ve always wanted to work a daybed swing into the interior design of your home, or maybe even on your porch. You just weren’t sure where or how to do it.

It takes a lot of gusto to break the mold and set off the design of your home with a newfangled inspiration. We get that. Here at Four Oak Bed Swings, we are cut from a bit of a different cloth ourselves.

We’re not afraid to innovate, and we’re not afraid to try something new. That’s the very reason for the success of our business in the first place. What we also do is build quality into everything we do, but let’s not diverge too much just yet from the premise we aim to set out.

The point of the matter is that with this guide, we’ll give you some insight into how you can work so many of our designs into your home, and how they can be used to set off each of the following interior design aesthetic trends detailed below.

Here’s the good news. The good news is that you can work a daybed swing into your home, while at the same time complimenting your vision for the overarching design scheme. It’s also going to be easier than you think.

Check out some of our insight and recommendations, and of course, if you have any questions, reach out to us!

Minimalism

Minimalism is more or less exactly what it sounds like, which is making a statement by removing elements instead of adding them.

The minimalist aesthetic is defined by simple lines, sharp angles, and a lack of patterning or motifs. It’s plain and simple, only it goes by another name, which is minimalism.

Minimalism is simplicity at its best. There are no bright colors or distracting patterns or elements to work with - it is like the philosophical counterpoint to Baroque styling.

One of our daybed swings would complement a minimalist design aesthetic perfectly, provided the bed swing itself was arrayed properly. The plain manila ropes and frames that make up the bed will work with a minimalist design.

What you need to remember is this. Don’t overdo the setting with a bedspread or pillows that are bold or loud. Colors, patterns, and even fabric selection will affect the mood, so choose these carefully!

Industrial-Chic

Industrial chic, not unlike minimalism, is also characterized by plain lines and a generally simplified aesthetic. The difference between them is in the elements.

Industrial chic makes the most of elements that were once popular in the late industrial period; It is common to see exposed metal fittings, like I-beams and iron pipes, along with retro lighting like Edison bulbs, in an industrial design aesthetic. Think about what the popular, almost “steampunk like” impression of the late 1800s or early 1900s city building would look like.

Now, tone that down and add in some domesticity - that’s industrial chic.

Admittedly, our best swings would do better to match with an industrial aesthetic if they were suspended by cables or iron pipes, but they way they are some of them have a somewhat industrial character. There isn’t too much you need to do, and the jarring nature of a bed swing will complement an industrial design rather smartly on its own.

Mid-Century Modern

Mid Century modern design may be named after the fact that it became prevalent somewhere around the middle of the last century, but it quickly became popular and its legacy is enduring still today. It is one of the most influential design aesthetics of the past hundred years.

Similar to but not the same as a minimalist design aesthetic, mid-century modern is typified by simple, organic lines and shapes and a lack of embellishment. It takes some of its inspiration from Scandinavian design (which in and of itself is another school of interior design aesthetic) and many mid-century modern designs are bare wood, lacking in ornamentation or patterning.

If you’re wondering how a daybed swing can be worked into your mid-century modern vision, wonder no longer. A bed swing can actually be incorporated into mid-century modern designs more easily than other themes - just be sure to let the natural angles and wood frame of the bed frame show out, and don’t overdo it with the accents you include with the bed swing.

Shabby Chic

Shabby chic is somewhat like Bohemian in that it makes the most of what we might call “disheveled” elements and gives them the inspiration to be their own form of aesthetic. Think of it this way - if high fashion spurns it, there is a good chance you can turn it around and make it into a staple of shabby chic design.

Originally, shabby chic furniture and design were reminiscent of the French country aesthetic that we will go over in more detail below, but today shabby chic can be characterized by old things that have been made new, or allowed to remain slightly old.

Ornately graven woodwork with an aged coat of paint, faded gilding on a dresser or a mirror, a piece of furniture with the patina of age. All of these things are shabby chic, and all of them can be well accented with the addition of a bed swing.

It might take a little bit of help from some additional accouterments, but there’s no doubt that a bed swing can be worked into a shabby chic design. A little bit of accentuation from pillows, throws, and spreads can be all it takes to make it great.

Rustic or Bucolic

The rustic or bucolic theme is somewhat similar to the farmhouse theme and makes the most of the exposed natural elements that you would see in country-themed decor.

This is one of the areas where our bed swings will not only match wonderfully with the theme but can actually help to set it. Whereas you might have to do a little bit of legwork to incorporate a daybed swing into the design of a minimalist or industrial-chic setting, the same swing would be nearly custom made for a rustic setting.

The exposed manila ropes and wooden siding of our bed swings nearly scream rustic or bucolic, and they don’t need any help to be adapted to a farmhouse aesthetic, either. Simply work one into your design and you’ll be setting the tone by it instead of adapting it to the surroundings.

From there, you can get onto pairing the other features of your decor with the setting and complimenting them by the rest of your aesthetic. Add a few ornaments that are reminiscent of country or rural living into the setting and you’ll be well on your way to a rustic theme.

Eclecticism

Eclecticism, by its very nature, is defined by a multiplicity of different inspirations. That’s what it literally means to be eclectic. You could theoretically affect an eclectic design simply by combining the elements of some of the designs we have already covered so far in this article, and you would have an eclectic setting.

Really, if you have ever walked into a setting and thought you couldn’t quite put your finger on where the inspiration came from, but it was from somewhere that you faintly recognized, you were probably looking at an eclectic setting.

That means you’ll hardly have to do any work at all to get a bed swing into the design of your eclectic setting if that’s what you want to go for. They are eclectic by their nature and will adapt to any setting you work them into on those grounds.

Remember also that things will clash in eclecticism, which might be the very aesthetic you are going for, in which case, you have no work to do! Simply hang a daybed swing and get on with it!

Art Nouveau or Art Deco

Art Nouveau design, as well as Art Deco, are really more defined by the decorative pieces that accent a space than they are by the furniture itself. Still, there is more than one way to work a swing bed into your design, and it can be adapted to art deco inspiration.

Set the bed swing into a location and then decorate it with pillows, throws, and quilts of a decidedly “modern art” spirit or deportment. Give the bed swing itself a unique paint job that bespeaks the same influence of modernism or modern art. The reins are yours with this one.

French Country

French Country design is like shabby chic, but high brow shabby chic. Think a gilded mirror, elegantly carved woodwork and crystal chandeliers, and other classic provincial designs.

It is not the bed swing itself that will match to French Country design, but rather the other stylistic elements that you pair with it. Go with a slate gray or a silver comforter for your bed swing or other elegant coverings that bespeak opulence. These will help painlessly match your bed swing to French Country tones.

Alternatively, you could give us a call and see what we think - we love to help our customers complete their visions for their homes!

Coastal

Coastal design is one of those areas in which a porch swing bed will really shine, especially a traditional porch swing to pair with the porch decor of your outdoor rooms.

As with Art Deco, Coastal Design is largely influenced by the decorative elements of the setting, and in this respect, the exposed wood construction and manila ropes of our swing beds will complement the setting admirably. Some of them appear like shiplap or rigging, both of which are common enough with overtones of coastal decoration.

A lot of coastal design focuses on open space and outdoor living, so a swing bed for your front porch would really shine in this setting.

Urban Modern

Think about your impression of what an urban apartment looks like. It’s part minimalist, part Art Deco, and part postmodernism. All of these things put together come out in the wash as urban modern design.

Luckily for you, a swing bed, due to the inherent character it possesses, as well as its novelty, will be a natural match for urban modern design. The very nature of a swing bed will require little additional work to suit it to the setting, as designs that are not yet mainstream are welcomed into urban modern design with open arms.

Quality in Everything We Do

You’re probably brimming with ideas by this point about how to work one of our daybed swings into the design of your home, and we don’t blame you. We’ll cut you free to investigate in a second, but for the time being, we’d like to give a little bit of a spotlight to our processes before we do. When a thing is designed and made to such a level of quality as you’ll find here at Four Oak Bed Swings, it deserves a call out.

All of our bed swings and other hanging swings are handcrafted from Southern Yellow Pine and heavy-duty components. The joints we create from a special wood glue so that the joints themselves are actually stronger than the wood that is used to make them.

The pine we use is also naturally strong and lightweight, and we finish each bed swing with no fewer than three coats of high-grade outdoor varnish to protect them against decay and wear.

Our bed swings also ship fully assembled, but most importantly, they ship for free! People all around the country have been enjoying the peace and relaxation of Four Oak Bed Swings, and you can, too - you just need to get in touch with us or pick out your favorite model.

Check out our collection of bed swings via the link above, and if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with a member of our customer service team. You can reach us at 334-202-2870. Till then, enjoy what you find and we wish you good luck in styling your home!

Who would have thought that a porch hanging swing could have brought along with it so many diverse benefits for your home, health, mind, and lifestyle? Well, we could have, and we did, so here they are. We’ve compiled some of the top benefits of the hanging swings and daybeds that you can find here in our store at Four Oak Bed Swings and put them all in one convenient place for you - right here!

Check out this interesting compilation of some of the best reasons to set up your home’s design with a porch hanging swing, and if you have any questions, check our blog for more information or get in touch with us!

Health Benefits

One of the main things that a porch swing can do for you bring along with it a number of potential health benefits. This is not a complete investigation of the full suite of benefits that a swing bed may be able to offer you, but this is a good place to start.

Keep in mind that you won’t know how one personally impacts you until you try it and that many of these reports are anecdotal. Nonetheless, here are some of the potential benefits that a swing bed or a porch swing can bring you insomuch as they may improve your quality of life.

It Can Help You Manage Stress!

Stress is a killer, and stress is something that all people around the world experience in their own way, day in and day out. Not only is stress ubiquitous, but it is also implicated in a vast number of complications. People who suffer from higher than average levels of stress may be at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, gastrointestinal problems, and much more.

Does this article propound that a porch swing is a potential aversion to these diseases? Not at all. Does it suggest that a porch swing may help you relax, which may in turn have a positive effect on your overall health? Absolutely!

If you’ve ever been in a swing of the sort before, then you know firsthand what the gentle swaying motion feels like and why it can be so beneficial. If you like the way it feels, then you might benefit from a porch swing chair or a patio swing. At the very least, it will give you a place to relax.

Physical Activity May Help Improve Circulation

Depending on the type of outdoor porch swing that attracts your attention, it might even give you an outlet for additional physical activity, and like reducing stress, improved physical activity is also implicated in holistic wellness and health.

Some front porch swings and hanging chairs give you the ability to reach the ground with your feet, which means you can “power” the swing accordingly. If you appreciate the sensation, you may be able to kill two birds with one stone here.

Impart a gentle rocking motion to the swing that can help relax you. It will also increase your heart rate and your circulation as well as a result. That’s good for your overall health and it can give you a nearly passive ability to include more activity in your life, as paradoxical as that might sound.

You Might Even Get Better Sleep

These reports are largely anecdotal, but there are enough of them that they garner a lot of clout. Many people have reported that they sleep better in hammocks or while suspended than they do while they are sitting on a bed that lays on the floor.

Explanations range for this experience. Some believe that the gentle swaying motion of a hammock is synchronized with your brain waves, helping to induce deeper and thus more restful sleep. Others believe that the feeling of being cradled or suspended brings your memory back to the womb and gives you the sleep of a newborn baby.

Whatever the case, there are those that swear by it. We don’t mean to suggest that you replace your bed with a wooden swing - although you could if you wanted to!. We do, however, mean to suggest that this is simply one more benefit that a porch hanging swing may have for you, even if you only periodically nap in your outdoor furniture. You might get better sleep!

You’ll Definitely Be Spending More Time Outside

Then there is one simple, incontestable fact to throw into the mix before we move onto the next category of benefits. With an outdoor porch swing, you will have an avenue for additional outdoor living and recreation. Whether you use it or not will be up to you, but you’ll certainly have the ability.

Being in the outdoors more often is linked to lower feelings of stress and higher incidences of natural euphoria. No one is exactly sure why, but being in the outdoors tends to have a net positive effect on the mind and body. A healthy level of exposure to nature is good for your health in more ways than we have time to explore here, and a porch swing can help get you out there more often.

Lifestyle Benefit

Guess what - when you decide to renew your home’s design with an outdoor swing - or an indoor one, for that matter - you won’t just reap the potential benefits to your health that we mentioned above.

In addition to the benefits mentioned above, you may find yourself noticing some of the following improvements to your lifestyle and to your quality of life.

You might also notice that there’s some degree of crossover here, and there is, no doubt. Benefits of living are indeed holistic, so you’ll find some interchangeability between them. Just keep these potential boosters in mind when you are looking for possibilities in porch swings.

Can Improve Your Mental Focus

On the same wavelength as our observation above that suggests that some believe the gentle rocking motion of a swing bed or porch swing can synchronize with your brain waves to improve sleep, there are those who suggest it helps mental focus. In the same vein, some believe that simple repetitive tasks or motions can help with impulse control and improve focus as well.

This is not to suggest a treatment for any disorder, however, just that you may find that a swing bed can help you clear your mind and improve the focus of your mental clarity. Speaking of clearing your mind and improving your focus and concentration, consider our following point.

Can Help You Relax

This argument is nearly incontrovertible unless you happen to know as a fact and from experience that the gentle motion of a swing unnerves you. Like the rhythmic swells of a moving tide, a porch swing or a bed swing can help to lull you into a state of relaxation and concentration.

As mentioned above, you may find that the motion helps you to clear your mind as well. When your mind is clear and unfettered, your mental health improves and so does your state of well being. A swing may be an attainable way to provide that benefit for yourself, whether for the interior of your home or for the outdoors.

We also mentioned there would be some crossover between lifestyle and health, and that is perhaps most evident here. Guess what happens when you experience a deep state of relaxation? Your stress levels decline!

Gives You an Outlet for More Time with Friends and Loved Ones

You can make your own decisions about the value of spending more time with the special people in your life, but a porch swing will give you an additional outlet to do so, on top of some extra space.

Adding a hanging swing to your porch ceiling gives you so much more than additional creativity for decorating and design. It gives you another space for intimacy and the enjoyment of the company. Like a couch or a loveseat, it is a place that welcomes the familiarity of attention.

We won’t even expound on the value that you can reap by spending more time with friends, family, and loved ones. That much is self-evident, as far as we are concerned.

Benefits for the Home

It just keeps getting better with a porch hanging swing because the benefits just keep pouring in. Yes, a swing like one of ours may help to be able to relax more and it can improve your quality of life, even give you more time with friends and family.

But these things cannot really be quantified, whereas some of the benefits that one can have for your home definitely can be. If you’re looking for some concrete reasons to invest in a porch swing, only consider some of these.

Gives You an Outlet for Creativity

First and foremost, a hanging swing like one of ours will give you an outlet for creativity. You can switch up your exterior furnishings and decorations throughout the seasons so as to make a fitting presentation for passersby, or you can decorate your porch according to the design scheme of your home.

This is something we’ve discussed at length in the past in our blog. Take a look at some of the great design ideas we’ve come up with that you can use along with a porch swing to really make your home pop and give it some heightened curb appeal. Make sure while you’re reading that you don’t miss a chance to check out our blog on some popular design trends and how they can be made compatible with our porch swings.

An Easy Home Improvement

One of the other ways, and certainly one that can be quantified, in which a porch swing can benefit your home is that it is a relatively easy home improvement project to make. Hanging a porch swing is not as tough as you think, and we even have instructions on our website on how to do it - just see below. But what matters here is that you can add a porch swing to your design and get back a lot more than you gave.

Hang up a porch swing and you will be surprised how much curb appeal it lends to your home, and how much it distinguishes it. If you didn’t notice that few homes capitalize on this wonderful design aesthetic, you will as soon as you see how much your home is accented by it.

A Diverse Selection

There you have some of our top benefits that a porch swing can offer to you if you make the choice to add one to your home. While you’re here, don’t miss a chance to get inspired by our collection of swing beds and other hanging swings, or by our accent pieces, including custom made tables!

Only the Best Materials

All of our bed swings and other swings are made from the highest quality materials and use only the best techniques to ensure their comfort and longevity. From the fact that they are made from Southern Yellow Pine to the fact that they are meticulously finished with at least three coats of varnish, our bed swings are built to last. Learn more about them - discover the difference here!

Learn How to Hang It

If you’re serious about outfitting your home with one, check out our collection and make sure you read our informative post on just how to hang your swing. They come already assembled and include standard 1-inch diameter manila hanging ropes, but make sure you follow our instructions carefully and call us if you have questions.

Get in Touch with Us

As you can see, we are serious about swings and outdoor improvements, and we have a long history of satisfying customers across the country. If you want to learn more about how we do what we do, get in touch with us today! You can reach us by phone at 303-202-2870 or by sending an email to david@fouroakdesigns.com. Reach out today, we’re always glad to hear from our customers!

We wouldn’t be the country’s premier supplier of day bed swings and other hanging swings if we didn’t tell you just how you could match up some of our finest designs with some of these modern trends. That’s why we’re going to devote this article to giving you some renewed inspiration for the many ways in which you can work a swing bed or a porch swing like you’ll find in our catalog into your home.

If your home capitalizes on one of these schools of style, then you’re in luck because a day bed swing from Four Oak Bed Swings is ideal for setting the tone in the space! While there are some in our collection that are better suited to some of these schools of design than others, a little bit of vision will go a long way.

Contemporary Interior Design

A lot of people get confused about the differences between modern design and contemporary design, but they are not the same. You might think that modern might “right now” and it doesn, categorically, but in design, it refers to a distinct style that was popular in the early stages of the 1900s, and possibly before.

Contemporary, on the other hand, is what modern should be by virtue of the word itself. Contemporary means what is in style right now, and a bed swing is just about perfect for that. If only for the fact that a daybed swing is not a design you’ll see often repeated, it will make a very contemporary mark.

Industrial Design

As fitting as a swing bed or a porch swing would be for the cutting edge tones of contemporary design, most of them are probably better suited for industrial design. Characterized and encompassed by harsh, bold lines and angles and a profusion of raw materials, industrial design is a no nonsense replication of the styles that have been popular in cities for years.

Industrial design using the aesthetic of construction itself as decor. In it, there is often exposed ironwork, chains, lumber, and more. Fixtures are reduced to their bones, and that makes a bed swing a natural fit.

Even the most polished swing beds have exposed ropes from which they hang, and some are even supported by pipes or chains. Expose the wood siding of your swing bed and you have a piece of furniture that is custom made for industrial design.

Traditional Design

Now we’re going to do a hard gear shift and pull out all the stops. While a porch swing bed is a great match for some industrial overtones, make no mistake about the fact that you can make a traditional setting with one as the centerpiece as well.

Elegant woodwork and traditional lines are the foundation of traditional interior design, often bringing richly embroidered upholstery and classic looks into the setting. Admittedly, the look of the bed swing itself is not the ideal match for a traditional look, but depending on the pillows and accents you use with one, it can be a match made in heaven. You just need to get comfortable with accessorizing.

Shabby Chic Design

Shabby chic is what chic would be if a chic model was well worn and well lived in beforehand. Whereas chic is elegant and highbrow, shabby chic is what chic becomes with a lot of familiarity.

A day bed swing can fit into shabby chic interior design without any effort whatsoever. Just add some rustic looking pillows and a matching set of comforters to the bed and you’ll be set. The distressed wood and exposed ropes of some of our models will do the rest of the work for you.

Bohemian Design

Bohemian is beloved by designers of fashion as much as by interior design if for no other reason than the fact that it is so welcoming of designs that elsewhere would be said to clash.

What it is is hard to define, because elements that have no home elsewhere often make their way into Bohemian where they find a permanent residence. Look for natural tones and themes. Think of exposed wood, rope, and upcycled materials that have been given new life. Look for muted colors and exotic prints, and you have the beginnings of something Bohemian. Add some mismatched pillows and other odd fixtures to your day bed and you will be well on your way.

These are some of the best schools of design with which a day bed swing from our collection will match up wonderfully, but if you’re looking for more inspiration, read our recent blog on how to use a swing bed for inspiring design ideas.

After reading the two of these, you should have plenty of ideas rolling through your imagination on how to create your little paradise. Check out our collection of swing beds and traditional porch swings for your front porch, learn a little more about how to hang them, and be on your merry way!