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You won’t regret adding a hanging daybed swing to your porch or patio so long as you have the room for one. These beautiful pieces of outdoor furniture will enable you to experience the outside of your house like never before.

If you are considering adding a large porch swing to your home, this guide will help you see the perks you will enjoy and offer some tips on decorating that you might want to take into account.

Why Hanging Daybed Swings Are The “It” Addition Everyone Wants

Everyone wants a home that’s both functional and beautiful. While basic remodeling and furniture additions are a nice touch, sometimes these are lacking in the functionality department.

On the other hand, you could go with a functional addition like a new fireplace or pool, but these kinds of add-ons are costly and aren’t practical in every instance. Plus, they are often seasonal as well which means that for part of the year you won’t get much use out of your investment.

Hanging daybed swings on the other hand are incredibly functional and can help you get more use out of your porch all year round. Homeowners love them because not only are they visibly attractive, they are perfect for adding a superior degree of comfort to a much-needed area of your home.

Let’s face it, many of us don’t have the most comfortable porch and patio furniture. When was the last time you chilled out on your porch and really felt comfortable? Like lounge on the sofa and veg out kind of comfortable? Not often, if we had to guess.

This is largely due to the fact that most porch furniture is not designed for comfort, but to withstand the elements. Hard plastic and metal chairs abound, which might look nice and serve a purpose, but leave a lot to be desired. Don’t you wish you could sink into something a bit more comfortable without having to go indoors? There’s all of this outdoor real estate yet many of us aren’t taking full advantage of it.

That’s the genius behind a daybed swing. These beautiful furniture items combine some of the best elements of sofas, beds, and porch swings into one. Think of the comfort you would experience having the coziness of your favorite sofa merge with that of a gently-rocking porch swing? This sounds like something out of a dream yet is open to all homeowners, provided you have enough space to work with.

This is the most important part of the equation here, whether or not you have enough space and can create a functional porch that will actually serve you.

Creating a Porch or Patio With Comfort in Mind

As you browse through our selection of porch swings here at Four Oak Bed Swings, you will notice that we include the measurements prominently. This is because you need to know how much space you have available on your porch or patio if you intend on installing one of these pieces of furniture.

Keep in mind that you don’t want to try and cram a large piece of furniture into a small-sized area. This is what creates cramped and unappealing conditions. We’ve all had some experience with those dining room table arrangements that are crammed in way too small of a space. Not only is it visually unappealing, no one winds up staying very long or using these pieces of furniture because it’s so inconvenient.

So one of the keys to finding the perfect hanging daybed swing is to make sure you have one that “fits” your porch to a T. From there you can change up the wood grain and linen styles to match your home aesthetic. The good news is, we have plenty of options on that front, as well as a wide variety of different models to choose from. If you are intending on adding one of these beautiful daybed swings, this is the best place to look online.

When designing your little porch oasis using one of our porch hanging swings, make sure there is ample room to maneuver around. Think about the actual functionality of the space and you will find it much easier to create an environment that will actually enhance your home.

Interested in adding one of our gorgeous porch swings to your home? We have a wide range of different styles to choose from and plenty of resources to help guide you to the right purchase. We also have information on installation and maintenance. However, we encourage you to give us a call at (334)202-2870.

Enhancing your home is easier than you think. All it takes is one subtle addition to not only increase the visual appeal of your home but to add lasting functionality as well. With the help of one of our beautiful patio swing beds, you will find it incredibly easy to improve the comfort and aesthetics of your home.

You have a patio at home that is dream-like, but there’s something missing on your nearly perfect patio. You need something to perfectly complement this outdoor area that simultaneously provides you with a place to relax and rest. Of course, porch furniture comes to mind to satisfy this need, such as a quaint table and chair set-up. However, that might not suffice for you as you want something far more comfortable and unique.

That’s where we come in at Four Oak Bed Swings. We specialize in handcrafting patio swing beds for all of our customers. We know the luxurious nature of these swinging beds, and we are proud to provide them to all of our customers based on their specific needs and preferences.

When selecting your future patio swing bed with us, we provide a plethora of options for you to choose from so you can really personalize your new patio piece. You can select the type of wood, the color, size of the bed, types of suspension cables, cushion packages, and more!

On top of these excellent options for personalization of your swing bed, we also offer free delivery services to anywhere in the continental US. This way you don’t have to worry about purchasing it, stuffing it into your car, and then removing it to set it up. Instead, it’ll be conveniently delivered to your door! On top of that, no assembly is required. How about that for convenience and luxury?

There are a lot of different types of patio swing beds to choose from our repertoire. It’s just a matter of understanding these types, which are the best-selling, and what features they have that can cater to what you are looking to add to your patio. Let’s have a look at our top four options of patio swing beds to figure out which is best for you.

1.  The Avalon Bed Swing

One of our most popular and best-selling options is the Avalon Bed Swing. It’s really no wonder why this option is so heavily sought after. This piece takes on a modern design while keeping comfort and practicality in mind. It also comes in three sizes to suit nearly any patio: crib, twin, and full.

Not only does this swing bed come in three different sizes, but it also has a plethora of color options. These include but are not limited to gray, classic red, fiery brown, grays harbor, hazel, tricorn black, and honest blue. You are also able to choose what cable you’d like to have for suspension, like rope, steel cable, or even no cable at all.

If you so choose to do so, you can even select what cushion package you’d like to add with your bed swing. But, you also have the option to provide your own cushions separately. Any style you’re looking for on your porch, you can accomplish with this bed swing.

2.  The All-American Bed Swing

This patio swing bed was inspired by the American dream. The armrests on the All-American Bed Swing are larger than most of our other swing beds’, providing you with ample room to recline and rest your arms beside you. In each armrest, there is a convenient cup holder so you can always have your lemonade, coffee, or wine glass right by your side for optimal rest and relaxation.

For an added cost, you could make those cupholders into wine glass holders because we know that drinking a glass of wine with this bed swing is the best way to enjoy your new patio furniture!

Much like all of our bed swings, you can choose from our 15 color options to match it with your porch and its other furniture. You also can choose from cushion packages as well, much like all our other bed swing options. Make the American Dream come true with your new bed swing.

3.  Seaside Bed Swing

For those looking to complete their beach house’s patio or porch, then this is the bed swing for you. The Seaside Bed Swing is the perfect accessory for any beach house. The kiln-dried pine on this piece perfectly complements the sand and overall ambiance provided by the sea and beach. It offers a homey feeling while providing the utmost comfort so you can enjoy the sea breeze right from your patio/porch.

Drawing inspiration from the nautical theme, this swing would perfectly match your beach home. You can choose from the available 15 colors as well in order to match it perfectly with your style, home, and porch.

4.  The Westhaven Bed Swing

Another nautical-inspired swing made our list at number four and it won’t surprise you as to why. The Westhaven Bed Swing has armrests that are sleek but comfortable and add a contemporary flair to your porch or patio, whether it’s indoors or outdoors. This particular bed swing is made of kiln-dried pine as well, which allows for unparalleled sturdiness and future years of content usage. The double-cross pattern on the armrests so elegantly matches the same pattern on the backing as well.

When this bed swing is paired with rope to hang from the ceiling, the aesthetics are truly remarkable. We recommend this option to all of our customers who purchase this option, but the steel cables add an extra element of safety and style in a whole different way.

This option also has various other categories for you to personalize, like colors, sizes, finishes, cup holders, wine holders, and the possible addition of a cushion package. This bed swing is ideal for any house and any patio or porch, whether the space is enclosed or not.

No matter which of the above patio swing beds you choose to add to your patio or porch, you can easily personalize it in the way that best suits your preferences. We would be happy to deliver it to you for free and with no assembly required. If you have any questions, feel free to call us at (334)-202-2870 so we can get you the patio swing bed you and your home so much deserve.

Unless you arrived at this blog intentionally, a daybed swing was likely one of the last things you were thinking about adding to your home’s design. They’re just not all that common, even in this day and age of unconventional modern designs.

But that shouldn’t be the case. A daybed swing can improve the look and feel of your home and may even improve your lifestyle. Here are our top reasons that a hanging daybed has the potential to revolutionize your domestic living!

1. Create the perfect cozy corner

If you have no other good reason to add a daybed swing into the design of your home, inside or out, then get one simply because it will enable you to create your own cozy corner. Everyone needs a place to get away from it all where they can avoid the stresses of daily life, and in the comforting embrace of a hanging bed, stress will simply melt away.

Enjoying the comforts of a bed swing, whether you choose a traditional porch swing or an ultra-modern look for the interior of your home, will simply give you a spot of your own to avoid the hustle and bustle of daily life. In today’s fast-paced environment that encompasses all aspects of life, it’s more important than ever to seek and accept healthy ways to manage stress.

A daybed porch swing or a swing bed for your living room, family room or even your bedroom is the perfect solution, and because our swings are so customizable, you’ll be able to bend the rest of your design to your vision.

2. Can a daybed swing actually help you sleep?

One of the best reasons we can potentially suggest bed swings is because it’s been said that bed swings, like hammocks, may actually be able to help you sleep better. Granted, we’re not going to make any hard claims, and the evidence we can suggest is purely anecdotal but it’s worth hearing nonetheless. The worst thing that can happen is you can experiment for yourself and find out if your own experiences bear out the claims.

Let’s use hammocks as a template for this claim. According to some sources, people who sleep in hammocks not only fall asleep more quickly but also sleep deeply and experience more restful sleep overall.

Apparently, the rocking motion of a hammock, or in this case, a bed swing, can stimulate or synchronize with your brain waves, which lulls you into a deep, restful sleep. This has been anecdotally reported countless times by proponents of hammocks, and the benefits may transfer to a bed swing.

There’s only one way to find out, and even if you don’t find it to be the case for you, the worst thing that will have happened is that you'll have secured a new cozy nook for your home or bedroom.

3. It’s a space for relaxation

This applies to you specifically if you are interested in a daybed swing for your home but aren’t intending to make it a fixture of the bedroom. Whether you put an outdoor daybed under the eave of your front porch or work one into some corner of your living room, it’s going to serve as a place for relaxation.

You don’t need to go to sleep to enjoy the feeling of the weight of the world rolling off of your shoulders, and enjoying a daybed swing as a cozy nook for enjoying a good book, or in lieu of a sofa, is a great way to enjoy that experience.

We even say so directly on our product pages - be wary of enjoying your favorite beverage while reposing in one of our bed swings - you might find that you lose all motivation to do anything else!

And, for what it’s worth, we won’t tell if you sneak to the corner or the porch to catch a few winks. You don’t need to place a bed swing in the bedroom to enjoy the benefits of higher-quality shuteye.

4. Endless options for customizing the look of your home in accordance with your vision

The first thing you’ll notice when you visit our collection of bed swings is that no two are the same. We have tons of variety in our collection and there’s a bed swing for every home. However, don’t lose sight of the fact that you can easily customize your experience or your home decor with mattress covers, weather-resistant cushions, pillows, and even with the paint in which you choose to finish the daybed swing itself.

Our collection of bed swings are available in 15 different colors, so you can take a seamless approach to creating harmony, whether in your home’s interior or out on the porch. All it takes is a little bit of vision and perhaps some coordination with your other indoor or outdoor furniture, and you’ll be set.

5. It’s a creative, original way to add value and possibly even curb appeal to your home!

Finally, a bed swing is a great, not to mention an extremely creative way, to add unconventional value to your home. Creating the perfect spot in your home with one of our heavy-duty bed swings is pleasant enough in its own right, but think of it this way: how many other homes that you’ve visited have bed swings of their own?

Probably not many, which is a good reason to invest in one right on its own. It will add a bit of “pop” to your home, and, if it’s displayed at the exterior, will offer curb appeal as well. You can give yourself a place to relax and potentially improve the value of your home in one fell swoop!

If you’re thinking seriously about the prospect of adding a daybed swing to your home or porch, check out our collection of swings via the previous link. You can also get in touch with our customer service team at 334-202-2870 or by email at david@fouroakdesigns.com.

Our models - even our full-size swing beds - are shipped assembled and ship for free, and they even come with a set of ropes that you can use to hang them - don’t wait, get in touch with our customer service team today!

We’ve posted in past blogs about some of the prime benefits of owning and using a daybed swing. You just might be able to relax much more deeply in one, it’ll give you a private little corner of your own to get away from things, and believe it or not, there’s even a chance that a porch swing or a hanging swing bed might be able to help you sleep better.

You still need to work one of these swing beds into the design of your home, though, and a daybed swing is a big, loud fixture that you won’t be able to soften away with other aspects of design. You can’t cover it up, so you’re going to need to announce it!

Here are some of the best trends in interior design and how you can work a swing bed or a patio bed into these settings.

French Country Decor & Daybed Swings: Perfect Together

One might say that French Country decor is inspired directly by homes in the French Countryside, but honestly, how many homeowners that follow those trends have been to the French Countryside? Realistically, it’s just a popular design scheme that’s taken hold in America and makes artfully use of light colors, elegant fabrics, gilding, mirrors, and candles.

That’s not meant as a slight in any manner whatsoever. The French Country aesthetic is one that deserves every ounce of praise a critic can offer it. You’ll come across plenty of wood and other natural materials in French Country design, often making use of lightly colored fabrics and tapestries. Finishes are either whitewashed or distressed, but there is still a measure of elegance in the overall trend.

Believe it or not, a daybed swing, when carefully chosen and finished, can be worked right into a niche in French Country design with a minimum of effort. Our bed swings are available in a wide range of colors and styles, some of them in bare, reclaimed wood.

Choose a light, washed color and get artistic with the trappings. Choose frilly, fringed pillows and elaborate quilts to make the bedspread and allow some of the native wood underneath to shine right through. The bedswing will take care of the rest, and will put on a markedly contemporary edge to your French Country interior design.

Cool Off with Coastal Chic Decor

Coastal Chic decor is also an immensely popular trend at the present time and is typified by pastels and light colors, like washed-out aqua green and sky blue. That said, it’s not uncommon to see light pinks, yellows, and oranges in coastal decor, although the cool and warm schools never mix. You have to go with one or the other!

Coastal decor, as a school of design, is also typified by a wide-open concept and, usually, a lot of outdoor living or at least window space. The interiors are open and bright, and whatever ornaments are present often have a decidedly maritime influence. Likenesses of palm trees and marine fauna, like mollusks, sea birds, and dolphins, are common throughout. Sand, driftwood, and hemp are also common.

This is one of the reasons that any of our bedswings would be a natural knockout in a design that makes the most of the coastal living trend in design. Any exposed wood (if it’s light, like driftwood) and the exposed cordage used to hang the bed swings would fit right in.

All you need to do is go with the right color for the paint, pillows, and sheets. You can’t really go wrong with white or a washed-out blue, but if there’s a lot of sea green or conch pink in your setting, why not have at it? You’ll have a one-of-a-kind coastal living setting, and one of the few with a bed swing!

Shabby Chic and Bohemian Design

Shabby chic is, in some ways, a welcome relief from the consumptive nature of modern materialism. Both shabby chic and bohemian design cherish a look that says that someone lives there, making a house into a home.

Shabby chic, particularly, embraces antique, used styles and items that appear to have had a long history. Bohemian style makes use of whatever is available, giving it a somewhat eclectic feel. In fact, the original bohemian design might rightly be described as eclectic; nowadays, it has come to adopt connotations of avant-garde, artistic sentiment.

Nonetheless, if you love the look of a home that draws inspiration and a smattering of appeal from more than one walk of design, and only loosely unites them, then you might be a fan of both shabby chic and bohemian design without even realizing it.

By its very nature, a bed swing can be worked into a bohemian or shabby chic design. Just go with one of our products like our R&R bed swing and you’ll have the look built right in. Of course, as usual, the other furniture you pair with it will go a long way. Admittedly, a pile of lush pillows makes more of a bohemian mark than a swing bed, but when you make do with what you have, that’s bohemian too.

Industrial Chic and Modern Interior: Stark, Bare, and Mold Breaking

Industrial chic is brutal. It prizes hard, harsh angles and the bare artifices of architecture. Where many designs smooth over the bones of human engineering, the industrial design aesthetic welcomes them. Industrial design craves sharp corners, exposed brick, bare wooden supports, and wrought iron. Pipes, chains, and I-beams abound, but ironically, for their artistic import, and not for their value as tools of construction.

Nonetheless, industrial-chic is an avenue for you to make the bare, plain aspects of your home’s skeleton into a form of art. Exposed rafters, electrical conduits, bare plumbing, and other inseparable elements of your home’s construction can be made into attractive, industrial-chic accent marks.

You can accomplish the same thing with the inclusion of a daybed swing into a setting. The hanging bed works perfectly as long as you don’t doll it up too much. Honestly, if you can expose the beams from which you hand the bed, even better, and you might even be able to score extra points by suspending the bed from cables, chains, or steel pipes - but don’t do this without consulting an architect or a contractor. Our bed swings come with ropes for a reason, and they’re meant to be hung by them.

You’ve Heard of Minimalism. Get Ready for Maximalism.

Minimalism is a really popular trend in interior design right now. You set up a beautiful room with fixings, trappings, and decor and then strip it away. What you’re left with is minimalism. There are no bells or whistles, and the overall design says more through what is not there than through what is there.

But it’s time to get ready for maximalism. Maximalism is effectively the opposite of minimalism, and an attempt to infuse a space with as much personality as humanly possible. It extends beyond florid, ornate decorations, encouraging the owner to fill the space with personal curios, items of interest, artwork, and personal belongings as possible without engendering a sense of clutter.

In other words, maximalism brings the personality back into a space where minimalism attempts to remove it. In a maximalist setting, you can add bright, deep colors; it’s actually encouraged. Go wild with the carpet and the curtains, and add your photographs and wall artwork to all the open spaces you can without creating a movement imbalance.

A hanging bed is perfect for a maximal setting because the hanging bed itself bespeaks personality, but you’ll want to take it a step further. Make sure the daybed swing itself, and the sheets and pillows, all match

Rustic and Farmhouse Chic Are Here to Stay

Rustic design, similar to farmhouse chic, is very much like French Country design if you take away all of the bells and whistles. Ornate fittings and fixtures are common in French Country living, as are gilding, ornately graven wood fixtures, and (what might be perceived as) expensive fabrics and upholstery.

These are absent in rustic decor, giving way instead to bare, weather wood that has never been finished, simply brickwork, and the touch of rustic metallurgy. Rustic implements and tools abound in rustic decor, and it’s not uncommon to see roughly hewn wood and natural colors dominating.

There’s not much brightness in rustic living, and there is a great emphasis on what is natural and has been proven, as opposed to what has yet to be proven. In rustic design, antique pieces of handmade furniture are more prized than up-and-coming modern designs. In fact, modern elements are expressly shunned.

This can present a challenge if you want to work a bed swing into your home’s rustic decorations, but it’s not impossible. You just need to soften the modern appeal of the bed swing and let the natural character shine through.

Avoid brightly colored trappings, sheets, and pillows. Simplicity reigns in rustic decor. Opt for a neutral finish for the wood or let the native wood shine, and don’t do anything to obscure the manila rope you use to hang the swing!

Contemporary Design Is Simply and Effective

Contemporary is actually one of those design trends that will make it surprisingly easy to work a bed swing into the mix. Contemporary is akin to minimalism and welcomes aspects that have no place elsewhere. If it has a modern feel, it can probably find a home somewhere in the halls of a contemporary design.

A bed swing is ideal for this since it has little place in a traditional setting. In fact, you can just take one of our bed swings and hang it in a contemporary setting and it will do just fine. All the legwork is done for you; just the fact that bed swings are uncommon in design and still offer some “wow” factor means they should be right at home in your modern design.

No Holds Barred with Eclectic Aesthetics!

Eclectic aesthetics are sort of like modern design, but they’re different in at least one very significant aspect. Eclectic design allows elements to vibe in ways that contemporary doesn’t quite. To be clear: you can mix two or three of the design aesthetics mentioned here and you would end up with an eclectic mix, even though there would be no other way to neatly describe what you’d created. In other words, if it has no other place, eclectic might be the way to go.

A bed swing needs little alteration or personalization, if any, to be right at home in a setting that makes artful use of the “eclectic” spirit. In fact, you could do half the room in industrial chic and half the room in rustic - two elements that do not go well together, throw a bed swing in the mix, and the result would be definitively eclectic.

Go Modern with a Daybed Swing

To be clear, the “modern” in modern design does not mean the same thing as the word “modern” which means “at the current time.” Modern design is, at this point, actually quite dated, and refers to a period from the early to mid-1900s. Modern design, today, makes use of an interesting mix of minimalist style and overblown details, the incongruity of which makes it possible to work a bed swing into the setting.

Characterized by thin, exposed lines and flamboyantly filling shapes and upholstery, modern design can welcome a hanging daybed in, since a bedswing is the perfect mix of harsh lines and fluid design. Don’t overstate the colors, and you’ll have a nice match. Grab a good book and relish the finished effect!

The bed swings we produce here at Four Oak Bed Swings are ideal for indoor and outdoor settings, and are compatible with weather-resistant accessories, making our patio swings ideal for rounding out the catalog of outdoor furniture on your back or front porch.

Ideal for outdoor spaces, our wooden swings are made with high quality Southern Yellow Cedar and then finished with at least three coats of heavy duty outdoor varnish. They’re the epitome of quality, ship assembled, and ship for free! Contact us today at 334-202-2870 or at david@fouroakdesigns.com to learn more about our indoor and outdoor daybeds and how they can complete the setting you are trying to create.