House and scratching post from carpet for a cat: Instruction + Video

How to sheathe a house for a cat with carpet. Regardless of age and breed, any domestic cat needs a separate living space in which she will feel safe, protected and calm. Thinking about how to make a house for a cat with your own hands, you should start everything with planning and creating a drawing.

When making a house with your own hands, you should take into account some of the nuances and features of your furry pet.

General information

Shape and size

The constructive variety of cat houses is sometimes simply amazing, but the most optimal design houses and couches are considered, complete with scratching posts.

Ideally, everything should be used at once.

The size of the future cat housing is influenced by the following two factors:

• The size of the animal.
• Free space in the apartment for installing a house.

Important! Yes, much still depends on the cat, its age and character. If you have a kitten, an open type of house, which can be used for entertainment and games, will become ideal housing for him, and older cats prefer closed houses, since they spend most of the day in a dream.

If your family has several cats, then you just need a play complex. The photo shows that the variety of various modern finishing materials make it possible to create designs that fit perfectly into any interior composition.

Materials of manufacture

The following materials are most often used to build a cat house:

• MDF, chipboard, as well as plywood and natural wood boards are perfect for creating a frame.
• You can make a soft and comfortable bed for your beloved pet from a soft fabric and filling in the form of foam rubber.
• You can even make the simplest house out of cardboard boxes.

• To make a separate scratching post for a cat, you should stock up on a sisal or jute rope. But you do not need to fasten them with staples and even more so with nails, since the fluffy can damage the paw / claws.
• A polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or wood / metal pipe is perfect for the base of the scratching post.
• As a filler for a mattress and pillow, you can use pieces of foam rubber, synthetic winterizer.
• Plush, fur or fleece will help to decorate the house from the inside.

• In order to sheathe a house for a cat, the carpet is perfect, since you can tear claws against it (and believe me, the animal will do this anyway).
• Adhesive-type compounds for work should be used without a strong pungent odor, which can simply scare the animal away.

It is better to create a house from natural materials that are safe for both pets and their owners. Basically it is artificial fur or carpet with a pile, the length of which is 1 cm.At cost, such houses are much more expensive than fur houses, but the life of such a cat's housing is designed for a long period, since the material gives a greater degree of protection from the onslaught of claws and teeth.

Please note, that an important advantage of carpet is that such houses can be cleaned with ordinary detergents, and this will help keep the apartment tidy, as well as pleasant aroma and cleanliness ...

Now let's talk about how to set up a cat house.

Installation of a house for cats

The main condition for placing a cat's housing is the stability of the structure.

The level of installation is quite important, as by nature the feline family loves to watch everything from above. For this reason, the optimal height for housing will be 100-120 cm from the ceiling. But for the platform and the couch, other levels of the structure should be distinguished.

Preparatory work for construction

Before you start making a cat house, purchase the following materials:

• Fiberboard board 0.4 * 1.

  2 meters for the base and 0.44 * 0.55 meters for the walls, chipboard boards measuring 0.44 * 0.6 meters for the roof.

• 7 slats that will serve as spacers with a length of approximately 0.4 meters, and with a cross section of 3 * 4.
• PVC pipe with a diameter of 0.11 meters and a length of 0.6 meters, as well as a jute rope to create a scratching post and a board 0.

  4 * 0.2 meters (for an inclined scratching post).

• Particleboard and fiberboard with foam rubber 0.44 * 0. 3 meters (for a couch).

• Upholstery fabric.

Now you can proceed to the construction and upholstery of the cat's house with carpet.

Design

The process of making a house for a cat with your own hands is quite simple. To begin with, from the chipboard and fiberboard panels, rectangular parts should be cut according to the specified dimensions. On two parts, draw circles with a diameter of 0.

27 meters. The back plane of the wall will remain deaf, and several holes are drawn on the front - one should be with a diameter of 0.22 meters and this will be the entrance, as well as several small windows. After that, using a drill or an electric jigsaw, cut the holes along the lined marks. After that, you need to combine the two obtained elements in order to mark the installation locations of the vertical rails, ideally there should be 7 of them.

The marks are through holes that are drilled on both sides.

Do not forget that the slats for the housing of cats must be pre-processed, namely they should be planed, leveled and sanded. The rear and front elements of the house should be connected with self-tapping strips. After that, you can begin to fabricate the house. Cloths of fabric can be attached to an adhesive base, and the most convenient way is to use a heat gun.

On the basis of a chipboard canvas, foam rubber should be placed at the place of attachment of the house, and then outline a circle on which the scratching post will be installed.After that, the surface of the bases can be covered with a decorative material that will be conveniently attached with a stapler.

Please note that although it is permissible to use a stapler with metal staples for this operation, ideally everything should be done so that the pet does not get to this place and injure its paw.

Roof and its manufacture

For the manufacture of the roof, the upper part should be pasted over, and the slats that are in the lower part inside the house, close. After that, the finished house should be installed on the base and the screws of the required size should be selected.

In order for the pipe placed inside to be stable, it should be fixed on both sides with wooden bars, which will be fixed with glue or self-tapping screws. To make a stove bench from a material such as chipboard, you should cut out semicircular parts that will be strung onto the pipe. When you have decided on the location for the upright pole, the pipe can be connected to the base of the house. When everything is ready, you can attach a string with any toy of your cat or kitty under the bed.

The bench itself should be upholstered with foam rubber elements and fabric.

The pipe should be wrapped with jute or sisal string, which will be attached with glue. For a cat, the scratching post should be wrapped with cloth from the edges, and the middle should ideally be wrapped with a rope. After that, the board can be attached to the top of the house rail, and from the bottom to the base of the housing.

Playground

First you need to make a box of a suitable size, and it is better to do this even in preparation for construction. The entrance to the site can be of any shape and shape.

The assembled box should be attached to the base of the complex, and the pipes should be attached to the house using screws and corners. The next level of the complex for games is presented in the form of a couch. In order for the pet to be much more interested in moving around the house, you can install a ladder assembly or inside the building and fix it with corners.

Design the upper level as a gable roof, which will be installed on 4 pipes. After everything is assembled, you can start decorating and finishing.

All pipes for sharpening claws should be wrapped with rope, couches and other floors should be covered with carpet canvases. The cuts and walls of the holes should be covered with furniture slats so that the animal can move safely inside the home complex.

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