Hellow hammock people! Between a feud with bedbugs last year and a desire to cut down on the amount of stuff cluttering up my space, I aspire to string up a hammock from the walls in my new apartment living room to sleep in at night. I'm hoping to do it in such a way so that I can store the hammock on one wall during the day when not in use, which would mean I could turn the bedroom over into a cat-free project space without having to then turn my living room into my bedroom. This brings me to my main conundrum: which hammock?
Background info: I'm mid-20s, roughly 5'4", 185lbs, pretty solid build. I've been floor-sleeping on the carpet at my old apartment since August, so no worries about transitioning from a traditional bed. I have one cat, about 2.5 years old, active, intelligent, and mischievous, who occasionally likes to curl up with one paw just touching me and pretend that he's not cuddling because he's too cool for that. Teenagers. The living room is I think maybe 11" long in the area where I want to hang it, but currently I'm planning on running it at a shallow diagonal from the frame above one window to the internal wall that separates the living room from the kitchen (assuming of course that the kitchen wall has studs).
I know the general advice is to pick up a nice wide Brazilian hammock, but being that I'm relatively short of funds, it would seem to make sense to pick up a hammock for nightly sleeping that I could also take camping with me if I wanted to. Also, REI is having their spring member 20%-off-one-item coupon deal, plus I have a decent amount of member dividends saved up, which would mean that I could pick up a pretty good hammock for somewhere from "not much at all" to "free" (which is mighty tempting).
I've seen people on here who tried to sleep regularly indoors on an Eno Doublenest and said it was too noisy and cold, and that it was slippery, which made it hard to maintain the 30-degree sleeping angle necessary to sleep flat. Is this a common experience? I'm aware that there are fairly simple cheap DIY options for sleeping hammocks, but I shy away from those because I've learned the hard way that adding any extra steps to a process like this just makes it increasingly unlikely that I'll ever actually end up doing it.
I look forward to hearing from you guys!
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