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I AM!!!! My husband won't go for it... :(

Well, the real question is how many people have enough space to devote to a swing.

In my bedroom . . . . Above the bed. Leather.

Seriously, I wish I had the living space (I'm thinking a fairly large loft-like space) to hang a couple of aarnio ball chairs from the ceiling.

With regard to the photo above, I normally like minimalist spaces and this particular color of gray, but this seems a bit too austere for me. Maybe it's because of the black-ish wall on the windows side of the room.

Who makes the little orange (?) club chair??? Oh yeah, love the room and the swing...nothing better than huge windows and something playful!

It looks like the kind of room where swinging wouldn't be that fun. Then again if it were, it would kind of ridiculous.

The swing, the ring, 2 (or more) enthusiastic, agile people.....

I've often thought about someday having a swing inside my home, and a big tree that I could climb and perch in. Now I'm content to just do those things outside and have a modest living space.

I love it... might be a bit dangerous for my 3 year old. We have the perfect space for it, though.

Does anyone know what the sofas on the right are, the ones with the extremely high backs? I've been looking all over for something similar.

The black circular thing looks like a great big shower head to take a shower after working up a sweat on the swing

Would if I could!

Noah-

I immediately thought of this eye-catching sofa when I saw the photo:

http://www.bonluxat.com/a/Ronan_and_Erwan_Bourellec_Alcove_Sofa.html

It is probably cheaper to have one custom built, though. I think the Vitra is over 8 grand.

It's too severe

I'd paint the entire window wall on the left a natural sky blue. The rest as is. Kayingleside.com.

I grew up in an apartment in NYC and we had swings in the living room. A big hit with our friends when we were kids. I used to try to swing high enough to touch the chandelier with my toe.

Swing in the living room. Yes, totally. I have the perfect space for it. A loooong time ago I saw this hanging pillow/ seat/bed kind of thing someplace. It was kind of like a jumbo Fatboy beanbag with grommets in the corners to suspend it from the ceiling. That's what I want.

I'd love to have one, but only if it lowered up and down on a pulley like the bench in the film version of Auntie Mame's living room.

I would totally have a swing in my living room. Or a cot. Or a hanging chair.

Swings, though, would only work if you *don't* have kids. Because as a kid, I totally would have jumped off the swing and right onto the coffee table. It would have been me or the coffee table - only one would survive.

Oh, how I dream of the day when I can have a swing indoors.

I've never known why, when or how...all I know is that I want one.

I have one in my son's room, (he's 3). It the Ekkore (sp?) from IKEA, and been there for as long as he's been. He's not so much into it now, but probably later when he learns how to do it himself.

of course!

Love it. I want it want it want it!

I can only think of Samantha's "swing" from Sex and the City...

I've wanted a swing in the living room since Dharma and Greg was in it's original run. LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea and one day I'll have to space for it.


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how can an idea as awesome as a swing in the living room be made so incredibly boring?

that's not a fun swing at all. that's like a 70 year old couple's gliding rocker on their white front porch in the country type of swing. total snooze fest.

love the idea, love the space itself but the execution is total blah.

I don't know.

I'm not a big fan of rocking chairs or other "motion" furniture, so probably not.

On the other hand, as a kid and even into college I liked swings. So maybe...

A trapeze, however...

A recent article on Padma Lakshmi also talked about her living room swing: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/a-fashionable-life-padma-lakshmi-1108

I love the idea, but I'm convinced I'll crash and burn. And the color scheme of this apt is so similar to mine; it's inspiring me to go look at some jute/seagrass rugs.

I love the idea of an indoor swing! Every space I've lived in, though, would not be conducive to it without major renovation.

Growing up my dad made a trapeze out of a wood pole and some rope that hung in our family room. When it was not in use, the bar part fit into the hooks on the ceiling (it wasnt very high). When I got older we used the hooks to hang hammock chairs. It was so much fun playing on the trapeze that I hardly sat on the couch.

Looking back it was a great way to keep us kids from being couch potatoes.

My downstairs neighbors have hammocks. They're not up all the time -- only when they're expecting a bunch of people. (They found a way to make them attach easily to the support-beam pillars). It's a cool idea for guests.

i'd rather have a swing in a covered outdoor area like a porch or something. but my first unusually placed fixture would be an outdoor shower above all else.

We have a hammock in our loft. It's supported by big timber rafters above and can be clipped on and off with caribeners so we don't have to have it up when we don't want to. I love it. We don't have outdoor space so we have it situated so that you get to look at all of our plants and big windows when you are in it.

Question: Really am interested in painting my living room this palate, but it's right at the entrance. I do have good sized windows, but they are not that big. Also the space is small...and well, cozy. I'm worried though that : (1) it will look too dark and congested, (2), that you need more light to go for a dark palate.
Any thoughts?

Swing in the living room? Sounds like fun. I'd do it if I had the space. I kinda want some Ball Chairs.

Unfortunately, some ambitious but ill-informed DIY-er will try to attach their swing directly into their gyp. board ceiling, come crashing down, and look around for someone to sue.