Swingers' Delight: 7 Ideas for Modern Swings

A quintessential backyard element, the swing adds levity to outdoor spaces. These seven pieces give new perspective to their homes whether hung from a tree, on a porch, and even inside.

Two-year-old Annika and five-year-old Soren make music on the "nap swing," a popular hangout spot for kids and adults...

Gabriella swings on the rope swing hung from the podocarpus tree.

Mason and friends scramble around his soon-to-be tree house as Muriel swings.

Campbell’s Little Bird swing flies high alongside modern classics like the Eames shell chairs and Saarinen Tulip table.

Julie, James, and Christian enjoy an unexpected bonus of living in a house on stilts—–a pair of swings suspended from...

A porch at the bottom floor level serves as a rest space, play area, and work spot when Hale pulls out his tools.

Maintaining a connection to their wooded backyard was an important consideration for the Edstorms.