Recycle A Wine Crate Into A Cat Perch
Looking to tempt your cat away from lounging on your keyboard? You can take the tack of one Modern Cat reader and turn a wine crate into a sturdy kitty perch.
Sonia had two cats that couldn’t get enough of lounging on her desk. When the lounging started interfering with her work, she decided a creative solution was in order to tempt her cats away from her desk. Using some shelf brackets from Ikea and a wooden wine box she scored from a wine store, she built a kitty perch in a small nook next to her desk. The cats appear especially pleased with the depth of the box and their new found ability to peek over the edge at Sonia working below. For other cool cat-centric DIY projects make sure to check out how to make a cat haven out of shelves and how to build a cat cave.
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@Alfonzo: Idiot. "you're" set.
Alfonzo
This won't solve your laptop-lounging cat problems. They like laptops cos they're warm. Install a heater in that crate and your set.
Alfonzo
@Eruanno: Never knew finding a pink keyboard was be so easy
...okay that screen and keyboard looks just terrible.
But the cats are cute. The white-and-other-colors one looks a lot like a cat I had once, she was extremely cuddly ^_^
@Yanguang: lol seems so opposite.
BrianB
@AcidReign: Well I call that a double-win!
BrianB
Now all I need is a cat.
I am more interested in what appears to be an iMac cozy. Can we get more information on what that looks like and how to make one?
RyanCretheus
My wife and I use wine boxes from our local liquor store, but not for cats - for cookbooks. We have some sturdy commercial kitchen-style wire shelving in our kitchen and there are no solid sides to lean cookbooks up against. So we use a couple of wine boxes, sitting on the long edge, to hold the cookbooks inside. They're the perfect size, just big enough to hold even extra large cookbooks like the Gastronomique.
cafn8ed
My best "anti-cats-on-the-desk discovery was the CFL bulb. I used to have this massive 150 watt incandescent bulb in the desk lamp. The cats LOVED it! They'd jockey for position all day, to bask in the rays of that thing! They vote that the 20 watt CFL is NO GOOD!
This gives me an idea - a wall mounted keyboard cat perch.
We can get free wine boxes from a friend of my daughter's who works at a liquor store, but there is no room in this entire house that has that much wall space. Where some people have cat perches, we have bookshelves.
Besides, our monster kitty would probably break the crate right off the wall just by landing in it.
the cats are pretty ;)
gmerin
Jesus that's ugly.
Deprong Mori
@Duane: :D indeed, gotta give 'em what they _really_ want.
There are lots of cozy perches near my computer which are far more comfortable than the pc itself. My problem is that my cat insists on curling up in my arms while I'm working. Anybody know where I can get a pair of those to nail to the wall?
shadowdcs
Better to give a cat a place to sit than the cat to lay claim to its own.
henrykuo
Wine crates...is there anything they can't do? I agree with the ugly comment above but the wine crate is a fun idea for my kitties. I probably wouldn't feature it so prominently in the room and I would definitely paint it.
I use them for planters, expecially for herbs and new plantings. It's easy to move them around in the boxes.
hmm, I like how as soon as I lose my cat (she has been missing 1 week), suddenly all my RSS feeds are cat related. Sigh
OrazioElephunk