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If you are a homeowner, you probably have a tree in your yard. One of the best ways to make your house feel like a home is by adding a tree swing to that front yard tree. Here is a list of the reasons why you definitely need to add a swing to your tree immediately.
1. Nostalgia
This may be the biggest reason for most people. Modern swing sets can feel sterile. Even the nicer solid wood playsets tend to be pretty generic. A tree swing does not feel this way.
Every tree swing is different because every tree is different. The odds are good that you have childhood memories of swinging from a tree somewhere.
That swing might have been an old truck tire that your grandfather hung from the oak in his backyard, or a board suspended between two ropes hanging in your childhood front yard.
Regardless of where you remembered that swing from, most people have fond thoughts of that childhood swing. Having a tree swing in your yard lets you make a direct line from your childhood to your present.
2. Welcoming
For the same reasons that a swing makes you feel warm and comforted, a tree swing can remind all those who come to your home of their own childhood memories.
Even if you don’t have children, it definitely is handy to have a way to entertain them when guests arrive who also happen to be parents. Tree swings just beg everyone to sit in them.
3. Relaxing
There is something to be said for the simple soothing sensation of swinging. No matter how old you get, it is hard to be stressed while swinging in the sunshine.
There is just something freeing about the feeling of floating you get when swinging from a tree swing. Everyone becomes a child again when they are in a swing.
4. Family Bonding
If you have children, you absolutely must have a swing in your yard. It is increasingly difficult to get our children to engage with us. Anything that you can do to encourage your children to spend time with you that doesn’t involve a screen should be considered a win.
For some reason, a swing is impossible for a child to resist. More than that, as fun as it may be to just swing, most children would always rather be pushed by someone else.
If you have a tree swing in your yard, it is a guarantee a week will never go by that one of your small children doesn’t ask you to push them.
5. Resale
This one may seem odd, but hear it out. The first element of selling a home is making it feel like it is not just a house. In order to make that house feel like home, you want it to be all of the other things on this list.
There is a reason that real estate agents will bake cookies on an open house day. It isn’t just to have a snack. People associate the smell of cookies with baking at home.
In the same way, seeing a tree swing in a yard can be enough to make prospective buyers think of home, and nostalgia, and how relaxing it will be on a summer evening.
You can mount a swing quickly and easily, according to SwingTie (www.Swingtie.com). A quick loop over a tree, and you can have your swing up in minutes.
In summary, a tree swing can make your house feel like a home, by making it nostalgic and welcoming to guests of all ages!
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