stairway to cat heaven
pet hacks are often the most fun hacks i come across. whimsical, cute, funny. i think it just goes with the territory of being a pet owner.
regan sent me this catstairs hack, inspired by katwallks.com and entries from apartment therapy's pet decor challenge.
"it's pretty self-explanatory and hardly hacky, but i had to share since i didn't see it on the site yet. it's cat stairs made of two sets of the cascading lack wall shelves, minus a few pieces (two in my case), and a lack side table, minus the legs.
to get this look, you'll want to flip the table upside down so that the unfinished side faces the ceiling. the amount of lack shelves you use will depend on the agility of your cat (how far off the ground you put the first step) and how high your ceiling is (the top of the landing on mine is at 70 inches and leaves just enough for a kitty to stretch without hitting the overhang).
i used metal braces from the hardware store under each horizontal shelf and large brackets on the table, plus glued a corrugated cardboard slip guard to each step, to ensure any felines occupants would be coming down of their own accord. plus, since i didn't use two of the pieces from one of the lack shelves, now i have a matching mini side table, once i drill holes in the proper spots to attach the unused legs from the table."
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12 comments:
This is great! I was thinking of building something similar for my cat. Thanks for sharing!
This is very cool! I had been planning on doing something like that, but the info about the shelves is very helpful!!
Thanks so much for posting my hack, Jules! I feel like an ikea hacker star, now. :)
Awesome!
you're welcome, regan. :)
This is great!!! I'd like to publish your idea in a cat magazine. Please contact me
merrymaus
Thanks so much for sharing this. It's exactly what I was looking to create for our cat Simon.
Hello, awesome cat-hacker Regan!
I know, I must be a bit of an idiot, but I can't for the life of me figure out which Lack shelves and how this is put together (link is broken, leads to All Furniture page). My cat will love you forever and ever if you could give me a blow by blow how-to for this hack.
If you could! Thank you :)
agreed with the comment above!
how about a step by step tutorial?
This is awesome article and you give very good information this will help for every one. But we should take care when you adapt the pet because we may have faced some health problems because of these pets. so if we take the proper steps defiantly we will enjoy with our pets.
Here are some information about pet and our health: Pets and our Health
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For those of you who don't know which shelf this is, it's probably b/c Ikea has been out of them for the past year.
My store has recently restocked. All you have to do is type LACK in the search box and it will come up.
It is a zig-zag design that the poster simply put at an angle. The pic shows two shelves connected. It comes in white or red.
Good luck!
Maria
Here's the product for US Ikea customers:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20105628
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