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Second part of the post, indoors and at home. I have a lot of experience with this cause I slept between the hammock and the floor for a good 4 years before I got married. 1.) The cheapest solution is to get some hooks or other hardware to install into a wall stud. If your other half thinks that plain hooks in the wall are an eye sore, you might be able to get away with the ENO wall mount. When I lived alone, this was a great option. I could put away my hammock when not needed and pull it out easily when I was not using it. As for nighttime activities, I kept a guest bed for when family visited so that was my go to. To save room, in one apartment I even hung my hammock above the bed because I enjoyed sleeping on that. If you have the room, you could hang two hammocks side by side and use the ENO tandem to keep both hammocks apart. 2.) The next solution is an outdoor hammock stand. For this, you'll probably still need a bed when you have nightime visitors. The most available stands are the cheap outdoor stands you can find on amazon. They are metal, heavy, and kinda an eyesore. They are also kind of a pain to take down and put up so if you are a full time hammocker, it's not gonna be reasonable to put it away and take it out each night. When I was single and had a bachelor pad, I did not care how it looked so I had a bad boy like this: https://a.co/d/h1YGo7r I do recommend you get one that doesn't have a bar down the middle (right under the butt). That lets you save room by placing blankets underneath so you can easily just sleep under the hammock for those floor nights. 3.) If I'm going hammock stand though, I like this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-128-Portable-Steel-Hammock-Stand-Grey-Color-38-2-in/446714067?sid=97bff1cb-17a3-4836-9ff3-57a9075e48f7 This bad body takes less than a minute to fold and unfold and can even fit in the car for your camping trips to places with no trees. If you're willing to, it may even be feasible to fold up and down each night to sleep. It's also cheap enough that you can buy two so your other half can lay in another hammock next to you. So before I go to my last recommended solution... I wanted to answer your question about convincing them...... I'm still in the process lol. Obviously my wife knew I was a hammock freak when we started dating me. She saw the hooks in the wall and the hammock stands and the collection of a dozen hammocks. She even loved to join me on the hammock when we visited state parks and went hiking. So when we got married and moved in together, she had to have known I would want to continue hammocking! I think she figured I would grow out of it. But I'm stubborn. Hammocks are in my heart. Eventually though, I finally caved to reason. Hammocking is just not a convenient way for a married couple to sleep together. You can't cuddle comfortably and spoon. Its not a bad idea for couples that maybe aren't so cuddly. So roughly 90% of the time we are in a pretty firm yet comfortable queen mattress. My compromise has been to pull out the hammock stand when in the indoor hammocking mood. Actually since I was about 50% floor and 50% hammock before we were married, I find that I miss the floor more than my hammock. That leads me to my final recommendation. be warned though, this is for only the strictest of hammock fans. It takes commitment...... 4.) Dedicate a whole room to hammocking. Yeah you read that right. Dedicate the whole room to hammocking. In this suggestion I recommend that you keep the whole center of the room empty. Remember those double hammocks and tree tents I recommended outdoors? I'm saying you install three hooks and have those hammocks take up the entire room. It would be awesome. You could have a whole room dedicated just to sleeping. No distractions. No dressers or vanities or other furniture. Just a whole ass double hammock or floating tent. Continuing the theme of dedicating this room to sleeping, I would invest in a comfortable japanese floor mattress that you can pull out when you want to sleep on the floor (or have nightly activities). If done right, this could even be cozier and more aesthetic than a mattress. Also, maybe pass on a TV and lose the ceiling fan. Imaging hanging in your room sized hammock and instead of watching TV, you could project stuff on the ceiling while cuddle in a hammock and just watch movies on the ceiling. When not watching a movie, project a night sky at the ceiling for an indoor star gazing session. If you want to go the extra mile, you can even hook up an apple TV to the projector and schedule it to play the sunrise on the ceiling when its time to wake up. This is my dream set up. Is it feasible? Prolly not. you're losing a whole room. Unless you live in a mansion that's probably not worth it. Will my wife ever agree to it? I dunno. But I'm going to keep trying to convince her otherwise lol.