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When designing a play complex for a cat, the idea arose to make a hanging house on the ground floor. The main requirements: light, durable, stable construction made from scrap materials. I didn’t want to spend extra money on a base for the house; a cardboard box would hardly withstand active use for a long time, and the house would have been heavy from wooden blocks and plywood. Therefore, four five-liter plastic bottles, a piece of leopard-print fleece, a piece of padding polyester, carpet scraps, tape, glue, thread and a needle were prepared for the house.
We cut out a sector with one rib in the bottles, the main thing is that the shoulders of the bottle and the other three ribs remain intact - these are the future stiffening ribs of our design. Carefully place a rectangle of padding polyester into each bottle, make folds at the bottom of the bottle and in the hangers so that the padding polyester lies flat, stitch along the edge through padding polyester and plastic.

Cut out a sector in the bottles


Then we put a fleece rectangle into the blank in exactly the same way and stitch it too. We collect the bottles all together, sew all the joints right through, through fabric and plastic.In the fourth bottle, before attaching it to the others, we cut out the entrance, the corner of the bottle, do not cut the bottom of the bottle, we cut out a hole of a smaller diameter in the fabric, make small cuts and trim the edge of the entrance. For greater strength, we wrap the house with tape several times, and we strengthen the bottom of the house with tape.

wrap the house with tape

strengthen the bottom of the house


The house is almost ready, in this form it was put into operation, it stood all winter near the radiator, the cat slept only there, since the plastic base heats up quickly and retains heat perfectly - it is always warm in the house, the synthetic winterizer also warms well, and the synthetic polyester is also very warm. A fleece mattress covers the joints of the bottles, making the house soft and cozy.

preparing the house


The next stage is preparing the house for its integration into the complex. First you need to refine it.

Cover it with fleece


We cover it with fleece. We sew a wide strip of fleece, the length of which is equal to the perimeter of the house, into a pipe, fold the edge on one side and stitch it, insert an elastic band, put the pipe on the house, tighten the elastic band around the necks of the bottles, fix it tightly, but not quite flush, so that there is a small margin. Then we tighten the fabric a little around each neck and stitch it. At the bottom of the house, we make folds in the corners and sew the fabric so that the fleece fits snugly everywhere and there are no bubbles. At the entrance, we cut out the fleece exactly along the edge and sew the fleece with the interior trim.

House


We add decorative trim to match the tone of the gaming complex, glue a 5 cm wide strip of carpet along the bottom edge and a strip around the entrance, you can sew strips for strength. We glue small triangular pieces of carpet onto the top of the house, the hangers of the bottles, and the house immediately takes on an elegant and slightly unusual look.

House for a cat


The last stage: we hang the house on a rod between the pipes of the complex using jute twine, pull the handles of the bottles tightly towards each other and fix them with twine. The house is ready.

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