a tree in the living room for your cat to climb
barna repurposed the stolmen system into a cat tree. here's what he did.
"my girlfriend and i live with our three cats in a smallish apartment in san francisco. we wanted to give the cats plenty of vertical space, but we loathe both the fuzzy-cutesy look and the bulkiness/'unmodularity' of regular cat furniture. i was inspired by an earlier post on your site that used stolmen components and came up with our own solution. this one has more shelf space, and the levels are not very far apart (one of our cats is limping a little). it is made of only stolmen components, except the rugs, though i imagine ikea would have suitable ones too. we currently have two of these trees set up, one in the living room and one in the bedroom."
see similar hacks:
> stolmen cat gym
> cat stairs
> cat ladder
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6 comments:
This is great! Can you tell me how you attached the rugs to the shelves? I want to try something similar and wasn't sure the best way to attach them.
Thanks!
This is incredible! I have 3 cats and am going to be moving into an even smaller space than I am currently in. I was worried that they would get bored, but I think if I make this they might really enjoy it.
I would love to know how the carpet is attached to the shelves.
Thanks guys! Our cats do love them as do any of our human visitors..
For the rug I simply used "Lok Lift rug gripper tape" that I got at Target. It is sticky on both sides, but not sticky enough to damage either the rug or the shelf. It's convenient because it makes the rugs easily removable and we keep all options open for the future.
It may seem that the tape wouldn't keep the rugs in place, but we have never had any of them move one bit. Since I sent this in we actually adopted another kitten, and the four cats really put the shelves to the test -- never had a problem with slipping rugs. Your mileage may vary, of course.
In the future I might consider using carpet tiles from FLOR.com (I only learned about those after the shelves were done in their current form.) They are stylish, come with their own adhesive system, and I think they fit these smaller Stolmen shelves quite neatly without cutting.
Enjoy and again, thanks for the comments! :)
Another idea for the carpet could be an obsolete carpet sample book.
I carpeted stairs, a hallway and my daughters room with several of these many years ago.
I would rather have something to torture cats. Dogs rule!
I'd highly recommend Sisal Wallcovering (search on google). My cats love it - it's super durable and comes in about 12 different (but kind of similarly natural-ish) colors.
Though the flor tiles would be really snazzy too.
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