Productive Procrastination!
Doing better today.
I emailed Des and my uncle W about my lighting dilemmas, so I can get advice from actual professional people (a theatre lighting person and an architect, respectively). YAY for knowing nice, interesting people!
As a byproduct of that, I now have an annotated floor plan, so if anyone is curious I can post that somewhere.
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I emailed Des and my uncle W about my lighting dilemmas, so I can get advice from actual professional people (a theatre lighting person and an architect, respectively). YAY for knowing nice, interesting people!
As a byproduct of that, I now have an annotated floor plan, so if anyone is curious I can post that somewhere.
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But mooooo about Monkey. :( I absolutely adore the idea of cat gyms and have been thinking for a while now about trying to install something like that in my own house (especially because of Izzy's energy levels, but also because she and Toast both like 'being high'), so would love to see you implement it in yours. Not the least of which because I can see how you decide to do it and perhaps learn tips or what not to do. >:)
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I think I'll start with a series of carpeted shelves attached to the wall, so they can get up to one of the high windows... and maybe across to a bookshelf. I'll start playing with ideas more once the furniture's actually in there and I see what room I have. I kind of like the idea of giving them a high, out-of-the-way place in the studio... as long as they don't play Death From Above with me!
I'll post the plans! I just realized that I'm not sure how best to share a pdf, so I'll need to make 'em a giiiiaaant jpg. :P
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Poor KITTIES. :(
I'd like somewhere for them to be high and out of the way in the dining room, but, again, a drafting table destined for the studio is taking up space there now.
But once the studio is done, that room will free up!
Finding space for the cat trees was pretty important to me--first it was Arnold, who liked to be high. Toast likes it a little (and it makes him have to jump, so, hey, exercise), but Izzy is a fiend. The cat trees are her life. I think if I didn't have them, she'd go crazy and drive me crazy as well (even with the trees, she is 'challenging'). She climbs them, sits on top of them, scratches them, and for the ones with cubbies (four) sleeps in them ( ... )
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ABUSED, I SAY. ABUSED.
And at least long skinny hallways are good for chasing balls down!
Very true! And also very good for chasing each other down, haha.
Once the studio is done I'll be doing *lots* of furniture rearranging. I'm really looking forward into having more space for everything, including kitties. :)
Yay, more space! :)
Hardware stores will cut boards for you, which is the biggest tool-requiring bit if you don't mind a boring square edge.
And, honestly, I don't. Fancy-shmancy would be lovely, but I can't afford fancy-shmancy; I'll take utilitarian over nothing every time and twice on Sundays. Some nice made to measure boards, brackets attached to studs, and carpet scraps glued down to within an inch of its life is all I'm looking for. Maybe some sisal bits for claw sharpening if I'm feeling adventurous.
If you want longer and are worried about space, you probably don't need it to be nine ( ... )
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I'm definitely thinking you could do a section of cat highway as a weekend project. Get your measurements right, get them to cut a standard board to length at the hardware store -- you'd have to pick either 7.5 wide or 5.5 wide, because you can't buy an actually-six-inch board, and I don't think they'll rip 'em lengthwise -- and go to town with a stud finder to place the brackets. Since cats don't care if it's perfectly level, you could place it by measuring *down* from the ceiling -- that way it looks level to you, regardless of what your house is actually doing.
My cats go MAD for the catnip. Definitely not like stoners -- they get high and want to disembowel things. I say Calliope is worse because Monkey has never tried to steal the jar from me. Calliope is convinced that she can bypass her dealer ( ... )
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Well, if it makes you feel better, the reason I have vaulted ceilings is because I live in a manufactured home and have no attic. :) I essentially have a few inches of shell that defines both the inside and outside of my house.
Which is why it gets so bloody cold in the winter. I would kill for the ability to insulate my house.
you'd have to pick either 7.5 wide or 5.5 wide, because you can't buy an actually-six-inch board5.5 would probably be plenty wide enough. I'd just have to figure out where to put/start it. The logical place would be around the hutch and the cat tree there, because that would be the way to 'get high', but that wall is relatively short (maybe 6-7' wide, with 4' of that taken up by the top of the hutch and the cat tree next to it). So I'd either need to wrap it around into the hallway -or- carry it up the wall towards the front door ( ... )
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All of my jealousy just immediately dissipated. I prioritize insulation over almost everything. Code requires me to upgrade the insulation in my attic as part of the studio project, and I'm thrilled! Of course, first I have to fix the vent baffles (ugh) and rake out the existing insulation, because Calliope keeps getting into the attic and digging herself little cat-width trenches. It's like the Western Front up there, only white and itchy. My entrenching cat has lowered my R value by at least 8. *headdesk* The energy audit guy laughed aloud when he saw it -- says he's never seen an attic that looked like mine.
It all comes back to cats eventually.
Pictures. Definitely pictures are necessary. XD
Yes! My mental picture isn't clear enough.
pictureshehehe, stoner cat. The expression in that icon is *priceless ( ... )
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