We'd like to start letting Simo spend even more time outside of his cage. He's still not very comfortable around us when he's outside of his cage (or when I stick my hands inside his cage he's still a bit uppity) so we figured that maybe a way to remedy this is just to try further interaction with him, gently and patiently. Let him get used to being around us outside of the cage.
Figured that the best way to do this would be to try and offer him "designated" places outside of his cage. So he can just chill and hang. When we let him out he flies back and forth a few times and settles on the perch we propped on top of his cage that also holds the ceiling gate open. He'll sit there until he goes down for food and then we usually close the cage.
So I'm wondering what would be a good chill out place for him? Our apartment is very scarcely furnished (it's small so we like to keep it simple!) which is why he hasn't found a good place for himself. In our previous apartment when he was let out he loved to be on the curtain rods. So we were wondering if it would be a good idea to try and attach some branches that hang from the ceiling or maybe a multi level playstand? (Since he's a shy bird I figured he might feel safer higher up or would this be detrimental to getting him to be comfortable around us?)
His cage itself is actually very large too so another option could be to just "extended" upwards by attaching things that run from the cage's top to the ceiling? If it's of any useful information, he absolutely prefers rope perches to anything else. Any ideas?