Urban Pet Haus was so thrilled with the feedback from Moderncat readers on their pet stairs, that they are asking for your opinion again. This time you get to vote for your favorite perch design and one lucky winner will be selected to receive the winning design. There are three elegant options to choose from, so please leave a comment on this post with your vote. The winner will be chosen in a random drawing on May 7. Here are the choices:
*This giveaway is now closed.*
August 4th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
OHHHHHH! I’m so upset I missed the opportunity to win one of these!!! I’ve wanted perches like these for what seems like eternity, the Curve in particular!
I can’t buy them since I’ve no spare cash to spend on much more than basic necessities, & if I did, it’d be spent on the food & vet costs of fostering homeless felines down on their luck. I definitely don’t have the technical knowhow, time, resources, etc, to create such beautifully crafted & stained perches those seen here!
So my plan is to continue collecting found wood (for those of you who don’t know, there are major treasures to be had in a college city the 1st & last week of the summer months) until I have what I need, which is taking much longer than I thought it would. I’ll be working with a lot of flawed (visually speaking) wood, so I plan to emphasize the layout of the shelves, rather than the shelves themselves. How they’re arranged on the wall will be most important. THEN I’ll paint, stencil, or stain whatever can be seen (the tops will have a scratching/lounging surface).
Once the layout is planned & the wood is painted/stenciled/stained, it can be installed. Thus, realizing my dream of having fun wall jungle gym or maze, of sorts, to stimulate & enhance my kitties lives that also serves as a beautiful design element to visually enhance the space for the humans who they share it with!
My biggest concern is making whatever perches, walkways I put up structurally sound. I don’t want my kitties gaining too much weight & free falling during a catnap, & I don’t want to worry about the resulting chaos:
Distracted by the panic I’d feel upon seeing a massive hole in the wall of my RENTED apartment, said kitty would have the perfect opportunity & the ideal camouflage – plaster, paint, & drywall – to sneak through that hole undetected & into the really interesting and yet to be discovered territory behind the walls of this hundred-plus-year-old, 180-unit apartment building… need I say more?
Lara Figueroa