When summer rolls around, you need a place to lounge and enjoy lazy afternoons. After all, what’s better than relaxing, reading a good book and enjoying a boozy beverage? Whether you want to kick back in your backyard or chill in your air-conditioned living room, a hanging chair is the perfect spot to unwind. If you’re itching for a great place to hang out (pun totally intended), check out these eight DIY hanging chairs you’ll want to make ASAP. 1. Baby and Toddler Swing: Spoil your little one with an awesome hanging chair. This easy-peasy fabric baby chair works outside or inside and is guaranteed to make you the coolest mom on the block. (via A Beautiful Mess) 2. Pallet Swing: Pallets were made for DIYing. Perfect for kids and kids at heart, this pallet swing proves you can do anything with them. (via Tidbits from the Tremaynes) 3. Hanging Lounge Chair: Suddenly we’re all about the mini-staycation, but only if this lounge chair is included. Hang it up and hang out.
4. Macrame Chair: This macrame bad boy is one challenging DIY, but it’s totally worth it. How amazing does it look in that living room?! 5. Hammock Chair This hammock chair is begging to be placed in a reading nook or under a big, shady tree. We can already imagine the luxurious naps. 6. Hanging Garden Chair: Get out your power tools, because you’re going to want this chair. Its unique architectural design will look just as amazing in a garden as it will in your living room. 7. Pallet Porch Swing: If you’re dreaming of spending evenings on your porch drinking something delicious, this pallet porch swing is calling your name. (via Sheryl Salisbury Photography) BONUS: Pallet Swing Bed: Sure, it’s not a chair, but that makes it even better. This swinging bed is genius and looks crazy comfortable. Step 1: Find and Mark the Stud Use an electric stud-finder to find a stud in the location you wish to hang your chair. Slide the stud-finder in one direction until the sensor beeps or lights up, and then make a light mark on the ceiling with your pencil.
Repeat the steps coming from the opposite direction to find the other side of the stud. Make a third pencil mark in the middle between the first two pencil lines to denote the center of the stud. The majority of today's standard digital stud finders are also outfitted with the capability to locate electrical wires that may be running through studs. If you are concerned about the wiring behind the drywall in your ceiling, purchase and use one of these types of stud finders. That said, most contemporary wiring is either placed behind metal plates or run between the ceiling studs as opposed to through them. Consult a licensed electrician if you have further concerns. Step 2: Drill a Hole for the Eye Hook Outfit an electric drill with a 3/8-inch bit, and drill directly into the middle mark made in Step One to denote the center point of the stud. Note that your drill bit needs to be smaller than the width of the eye hook in order to safely support weight below. The safe weight load for your screw can be determined based on the length of the shank as well as the distance between threads on your eye hook screw.
The safe working load of a 7/16-inch diameter by 1-3/8-inch shank length eye bolt (#24) is approximately 1,800 lbs. Consult a licensed contractor or a printed eye hook manual to find exact weight limits and more information as needed. Step 3: Screw the Eye Hook into the Hole Start turning the eye hook into the drilled hole by hand. Once the teeth of the hook catch the stud, continue twisting the hook as deeply into the stud as you can by hand, and then finish by slipping a long-handled steel pipe or screwdriver into the eye of the hook to give it leverage. Finish twisting the entire hook into the stud, all the way up to the base of the eye. Step 4: Loop the First Metal Link Onto the Eye Hook Unscrew the connection on the first heavy-duty link, and loop it onto the eye of the hook you just sank into the stud in Step Three. Loop the end of the galvanized chain onto the opened link, and then screw the connection shut. Step 5: Loop On the Second Metal Link Unscrew the connection on the second heavy-duty link, and loop it onto the end of the galvanized chain.
Screw the connection shut. Step 6: Attach the Basket Chair to the Chain Lift the basket chair, and loop the metal ring through the open connection on the second heavy-duty link on the end of the chain. Gently release the chair and check the height. If needed, adjust the height of the chair by lifting it back off the chain and connecting it to a higher link in the chain. The excess chain can be cut off by a professional, or simply laid back behind the chair, as was done here. Have a second person on hand to help with lifting and connecting. This will help avoid overextension and/or injury. This category has a wealth of confidence boosting swings and other active products for indoors and outdoors that, through weight shifting, stimulate balance, a key element in sensory integration therapy. Products which use that sense of balance are found in the MOTOR category. Product Name: A to Z Product Name: Z to AHanging up an indoor garden is great idea for a number of reasons, the biggest being that it keeps your plants off the ground.
When your plants are on the ground you’re more likely to forget them. When they’re up at eye level you won’t miss them and you’ll notice sooner if they’re in need of attention. Hanging your indoor garden is also good if you have pets, children, or if you’re short on floor space. Here’s a list of the different ways you can create a hanging indoor garden. 1. Suction them to the window These indoor window planters are the perfect size for mini herbs, and ensure that the plants get the light they need. Also, if you keep them in the kitchen, you’ll always have fresh herbs right within reach! Hanging gardens by Little Urban Farmers 2. Build an indoor trellis This wall planter gives you a place to store your plants as well as other hanging objects, freeing up your floor for more important things, like chairs and tables. DIY Wall Planter by Lana Red Studio 3.Use them as art A big beautiful installation of plants and flowers on your wall not only gives you a beautiful indoor garden it acts as wall art as well.
Art can be expensive and will always look the same. A planter mounted to the wall, however, can be changed whenever you feel like it and will bring life into your home. Wally Three by Woolly Pocket 4. Attach vertical planters to the wall Attaching a vertical hanger to your wall provides the perfect spot for plants. Mixing herbs, flowers, and grasses adds texture and color to your space and makes it smell great all the time. ALGOT Wall upright and basket, white by IKEA 5. Hang them from the ceiling These planters hang from the ceiling and from each other making it easy to take down a single planter at a time to harvest your herbs and makes watering that much more convenient. BITTERGURKA Hanging planter, white from IKEA 6. Hang them upside down Make a statement and shock your guests with upside down hanging planters. Technology keeps the soil and water in while allowing your plants to thrive. Sky Planter by boskke 7. Attach them to the wall with magnets.