Hammocks — by Guest Mom Rochelle Greayer

We have a hammock strung between two old oaks in our back yard and it entertains for hours. It is a swing, a place to read, a tunnel-like play house (when the sides are pulled up and over your head) and it can hold all four of us.


Melanie, Lucy and Meredith in our hammock in our yard.

I love hammocks and in my work often look for opportunities to create a perfect place to hang one. It always seems better to me to have one strung between trees or some other natural structure than to be forced to make do with one that requires it’s own frame, but I suppose those have their advantages too.

I recently saw this clever design that I can only hope will someday be my perfect answer for a client with a modernist aesthetic, and a love of outdoor bathing.


The hammock bath conceived by Little Wonder Design.