Find your spot on the limb, at least three feet from the trunk, but not so far that it sags under your weight. Prepare your rope with an eye splice* to make a loop in one end. Toss the eye splice over ...

Rope swing inside the author’s adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s a simple wooden disc attached to a long, thick snake of rope. When I bought it last summer for our daughters’ third and fifth ...

The bed swing, aka hanging bed, is not new, but it does seem to be gaining traction. Tour high-end suburban neighborhoods these days and most will find that grandma’s creaky porch swing is being ...