Tom Hennessy shows off the Hennessy Hammock, now in it's 10th year of production, at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009. For more information, visit www.hennessyhammock.com

A complete setup of Hennessy Hammock with the super shelter
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by Wonderdawg777

Mexican Hammocks and Serapes: An Australia Summer's Perfect Outdoor Accessory

Summer in Australia is just around the corner, and it’s time to get your backyard or garden ready. With our busy everyday life, a garden can be a haven from the day to day stresses of life as well as the center of summer fun and festivities.  There is something magical to be surrounded by nature. It is like a collective breath of life when you site in the palm of nature, and a garden be your oasis of paradise.

Along with beautiful flowers and fauna, a garden is as much a visual resting place as well as a physical resting place. Decorating a spot for peace and quiet is part of creating paradise, but enjoying it from within is the secret to making your garden paradise. A hammock can add a beautiful dimension of style, comfort and design to your garden. The hammock design suspends you above the ground, yet lets the energy of the garden envelop your body. With a hammock you not only have the physical enjoyment but the visual enjoyment of the garden as well.

A hammock can also add to the color of the garden palate. Hammocks come in all colors, from one solid color to the multi-colored, to bring a rainbow of color to compliment your garden design. A hammock is the one accessory that can literally create the paradise that your garden is designed to be.

When it comes to hammocks, Mexican hammocks are considered one of the best for your garden space. The comfort and style of a Mexican hammock is unparalleled and will instantly become the hit of your gathering. With their vibrant colors, yours will add an extra tone to the afternoon gathering. Since Mexican hammocks are hard to find locally in Australia, yours will become your signature outdoor furniture piece.

Mexican hammocks are well known for their comfort, too. The reason for the extreme comfort that these hammocks can provide is the fact that they do not use any spreader bars. This means that a low center of gravity makes for a stable position, which is the basis for the comfort of a hammock. The actual design of Mexican hammocks is for you to lay in them cross ways. In doing this, you will enjoy maximum comfort.  The cotton fabric of the Mexican hammock will actually mold around the curves of your body. This molding of the fabric only increases the comfort of the Mexican hammock.

Mexican hammocks can even be accessorized for even more decorative flair. You can add decorative fabrics and colorful blankets for an elegant addition. Add a few soft, colorful, comfy pillows and the hammock becomes even more inviting. For even more authentic flair, you can decorate your Mexican hammock with a Mexican serape blanket. Serapes are handcrafted striped cotton blankets. Wrap a serape as you lie in your Mexican hammock or lay one out on the grass for an afternoon snooze or picnic. These colorful Mexican serapes can also be used indoors to add a touch of Mexican decorative style.

For those lazy Australian summer days, make the most of your garden space this summer with these simple, yet essential outdoor furniture decorating ideas. Mexican hammocks with their vibrant colors and seductive charms, add a unique decorative touch to any backyard or garden environment. Despite the size of Mexican hammocks when stretched out, even the largest ones pack up small and light always ready for the beach, picnic or backpacking.  This makes Mexican hammocks and Mexican serapes truly versatile outdoor accessories that can add distinct flair to your backyard garden or for a great day at the beach.

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by Brad Stabler

Fabric and Quilted Hammocks: Stylish Solutions to Outdoor Living

When the temperatures begin to rise, it's time to think of relaxation. And nothing says relaxation more than a backyard hammock.

Hammocks are the perfect way to enjoy the outdoors. Sturdy, inviting, and handsome, they make a great addition to your outdoor space. They can be used alone or, if large enough, shared with a friend or loved one. They provide full-body comfort, cradling you from head to toe.

Fabric hammocks not only provide superior support and comfort, but are specially constructed to maintain color-fastness, and to be mildew- and stain-resistant. Once you install your new fabric hammock, you don't have to worry about it, but can simply enjoy it for years to come.

When purchasing a fabric hammock, you have two choices: quilted or non-quilted. Both have advantages. Single-layer fabric hammocks are cool and quick-drying, which make them perfect for poolside or lakeside. Additionally, they are easy to maintain.

Quilted hammocks provide the ultimate in comfort and softness, while still offering durability. The fiberfill batting built into this type of hammock gives you the maximum relaxation, while still being fast-drying.

Both quilted and non-quilted hammocks come in a wide range of designs and colors, to suit any taste. Whether your look is beach casual, elegant, rugged or rustic, you can find a hammock that will complement your style.

As with any consumer product, a hammock can come at a range of price points. There are affordable fabric and quilted hammocks to suit any budget. Besides the traditional rectangular hammock, which itself can be mounted between trees for a rustic look, or on a stand for use in any environment or landscape, there are several other options.

From the begging of the hammock mass production Hatteras Hammocks are providing quality quilted and fabric hammocks. Their hammocks can make you happy when you just look at it hanged in your patio. They are a little bit expensive but the truth is what you pay is what you get. There are many cheaper options, but the real hammocks lover will find the difference in a glimpse. When it comes to your relaxation, comfort and home, do not make compromises with something that will be around for long.

Chair hammocks, which are like a cross between a hammock and a chair or porch swing, provide slightly more structure but still all the ease and freedom of a traditional hammock. For those families who are on-the-go, a camping or portable hammock is the perfect option. Supported by a lightweight but strong frame, these hammocks are low to the ground, easy to use and even easier to carry with you on your next trip to the woods, the beach, or the campsite.
Everyone loves the summer, because the weather is hot, you spend great time with your friends and the most important thing - you have spare time for relaxing in the garden.

If you've been looking for a, why not kick back in a high-quality fabric or quilted hammock? No matter what your outdoor lifestyle, you can find a hammock to match.

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by EssjayNZ

Outdoor Hammocks

The two words outdoor and hammocks fit together perfectly.  While I have got hammocks indoors in my home at the moment, the bulk of hammocks are used outdoors. There are three main places or types of areas where most hammocks are used. If you discount other niche areas where I have seen hammocks hung up, like music festivals and the beach, these three groups tend to cover the bulk of the uses.

There are other people that use hammocks on a daily basis and I haven’t allowed for these types of people in this article. For example truckers in Thailand all have hooks mounted in the back of their trucks and when they stop they simply hook it up and sleep.

Resorts.

I allow that resorts cover all different types of hotel and holiday accommodation places. It is great that it is generally the advertising agencies that promote hammock sales for us manufacturers by doing adverts with hot bikini girls in hammocks. Having said that I found that it was the smaller more personal type of bed and breakfast or backpacker that tended to place the real orders. These resorts knew very well that this lifestyle quality detail gave them huge repeat business.

I am based in South Africa and the game lodges were perfectly suited to a high quality hammock. My personal experience found that the hammock chair tended to be more popular as it was more social as anti-social.  A few of the lodges that tended to not skimp on the details around the boma or fire areas were the ones that were receiving the most results. It makes sense that if someone sits comfortably around a blazing fire in the bushveld that they would have fond memories of that resort.

Private home use.

The biggest market for hammocks is in the general home use category. There is not a particular type of hammock that is more prevalent here. There are equally as many lightweight parachute type fabric hammocks, as there are large family sized double padded luxury hammocks. The size of the entertainment areas in the yards of your home generally helps make the decision as to which hammock to buy.

As we are discussing outdoor hammocks here I would like to point out that the other huge hammock population is the many people that us their hammocks every night to sleep in at home.

Hiking and camping.

The final large group of hammock users is the hiking and camping crowd. This portion of the hammock market is probably the most loyal (fanatical). The reason it is safe to say this is that even the guy that really uses his hammock a lot at home generally only lies around in it a bit on the weekends. Now a hiker or camper spends many a happy weekend tramping around in natures most beautiful places, and living in their hammocks.

These guys can tell you the real stories about their hammock adventures. They live life large. Good for them. Outdoor hammocks are perfectly suited to this pastime. Go and get yourself fitted today.

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