What should be a house for a cat? Many owners of moustached, striped pets are concerned with this issue. Which is better, buy or build a house for a cat at home? There is no unequivocal answer, since one can not foresee how your pet will react to his new "apartment". Well, for those who are disposed to crafts, in this article we will describe the most popular options for how to build a cozy house by yourself.
Everyone knows the cat's unrestrained craving to prick somewhere in a drawer or bag, in a secluded place. This is, in fact, the main criterion of the cat's house - a secluded, preferably warm place (closer to the battery), where you can get a good night's sleep. Knowing these valuable information and having a pair of healthy hands, you can try on your own, make a house for a cat, such as you want it to be you and your pet.
What can be done at home for cats?
The easiest way is to make a house out of a cardboard box of the appropriate size for a cat, and who knows, maybe this option will be best for the pet. Manufacturing technology is extremely simple: we cut out the entrance door, slightly cutting it to the bottom of the box. And it is necessary to glue the bottom and roof of the house. The disadvantage of this design is that the house for your favorite cat made of cardboard will be very easy, take care of its stability.
If you did not skip classes at school, you can build a cat's house from fiberboard or plywood. Well, here work is more serious, therefore for construction of such house for a cat it is better to draw the drawing. Proceeding from the drawing, we cut out the details, fasten them with the help of furniture corners and wood screws. For the future of cat's comfort, before assembling to the size of the details, cut foam rubber, then tighten it with a soft cloth, but this depends on the desire and skill of the master. If not to be too lazy, the result will be a wonderful soft, but durable cat house made by your hands.
How to sew a soft house for a cat?
A nice and soft version of the cat's apartment is a foam house. So, how to sew a house for a cat, so that she was comfortable in it? We need:
- dense fabric;
- foam rubber;
- sewing machine;
- pins;
- thread.
- To begin with, we design the design of the future house for your favorite cat, then draw patterns on the newspaper and transfer it to the fabric chosen for the house. Should be produced blanks 40x30x25 cm - 8 pcs. and 40x40 cm - 2 pcs.
- We transfer the patterns to the foam rubber and cut out the blanks 40x30x25 cm - 4 pcs. and 40x40 cm - 1 pc.
- Now you need to take two fabric parts, put foam in the middle, fold them as indicated on the picture, pre-fastened with pins.
- Thus, we are sewing three of the four walls of the future house. The fourth is added, according to the directions in the photo, in the center we draw a circle, there will be an entrance.
- Trying not to break the circular seam, we cut out from inside the surplus fabric and foam rubber. Through the cut out hole we turn the workpiece inside out.
- Just like sewing the walls, we sew the bottom of the cat's house.
- The parts need to be sewn together from the inside. Begin the sewing from the entrance wall, sew the other two to it, then sew the back wall. In the picture you can see what we should get.
- Lastly, we sew the bottom along the perimeter, at the end I would like to remind that the front side should be inside so that the seams do not provoke the pet.
- Such a house will be very cozy for a cat, and in the winter it can be put on a battery. Do not be lazy and create a home cosiness favorite with your own hands! And more than once your reward will be a happy cat's rumbling from a secluded corner.