One for the Kitties
A friend recently passed me this link on Design Public to the ultimate in kitty lounging. Not particularily sized for the New York apartment (or priced for the struggling under $100,000 a year career girl), but I've always loved pressed, corrugated cardboard as a material--and all the better for cat furniture. The site also has a low-lying pod, a couchette, a kitty pod and a scratching post designed by Elizabeth Paige Smith. It's one of those items where I think, "Gee, surely I could press a bunch of leftover cardboard boxes together with some kind of glue and then get my band saw out and trim it into an expertly shaped kitty lounging device ... I mean, how hard could that be?" Perhaps ReadyMade will pose an answer to that dilemma soon.
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It's actually not that hard! We made corrugated chairs in a class once. You have to cut them all the same, which could be a little tricky with a curved form, but you can sand the edges once it is glued together (that surprised me). We just used x-actos and a template. Once cut, you have to clamp the pieces together to let them dry. We used plywood on the outside to prevent the clamps from squishing the corrugated or clamping too unevenly :)
Love the kitty pod-I have two cats that would fight over that big time, but coughin' up that cash is just a no-go until the cats get jobs.
gary, i completely agree. but damn, doesn't that cat look like he's in heaven?
i love how that cat's little face is scrunched up all tight like TTHHPUUUURRRRRRRR I AM PURRING SO HARD!!!! purrrrrrrrrrr
Remind me to send you a photo of Mark's cat tree--you guys have seen it. It doesn't compare to his schlagenhasan, but it is pretty--and loved by Baxter (Elsie is to fat to climb, but she is happy when B is not bothering her, which he is not when he sits atop the cat tree--so indirectly she loves it too).
From what I read the cardboard used is much stronger than the boxes i have around my house so it must be harder to cut than with a knife. and it takes quite a lot of material more than i has or want to buy. i think it is going to be cheaper to just buy this one already made. who has a band saw handy anyway?