How To Make A Cat House Out Of An Old T-shirt And Hangers
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I often saw pictures of houses and tents for cats on the Internet, but none of these houses had detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make them! I decided to make a tent house for my cat named Luna and write this instruction with photos so that you can do the same or better. ?
How to make a house for a cat
This is probably the easiest house for a cat that you can make yourself. All you need is a T-shirt, a wire hanger + a piece of cardboard. A pleasant addition will be the fact that manufacturing will take you no more than 10-20 minutes and, if your cat does with this house as we have already described in this funny article, i.e. ignore it, you don't get too upset because you don't spend too much effort.
Step 1: what you need
White cat sitting on the bed
Cat
T-shirt
A piece of cardboard 15cm * 15cm
2 wire hangers or just wire
Masking tape
Safety pins
Nippers or whatever you can use to cut the wire and bend it - I used a larger pliers. ?
Step 2: cut the hangers
cut hangers
Cut off the top hook of the hanger. I previously untwisted it, but in fact it was not necessary.
Step 3: bend the wire and prepare the cardboard
do-it-yourself cat housebase for cat house
First, we straighten the wire, making it as flat and smooth as possible. Then bend each into an arc like in the photo. (My Lou is watching her work closely.)
I also glued the edges of the cardboard with masking tape (also called paper tape) for greater strength. This is necessary if you will be using corrugated board.
Step 4: holes
holes in the cardboard prepared for the cat's house
Punch holes in the corners of your cardboard base. You can do this with the same hanger or awl.
Do not indent more than 3.5 cm from the edge, it should not be too large.
Step 5: connect the wire
frame for a cat houseCat house frame
We cross two wire arcs. Make sure the ends of the wires are on the same plane. After that, carefully wrap the crosshair with tape to fix the arcs.
Thread the ends of the arcs through the holes in the cardboard you made in the previous step.
Step 6: fix the frame
wire threaded through cardboardglued wire ends
Bend the section of wire sticking out of the cardboard base. It is advisable to make this piece at least 2.5 cm. Do this at each of the four corners.
When gluing this end with tape, make sure that it fits snugly against the cardboard and that it is completely sealed with tape so that it does not cling to the T-shirt in the future.
Step 7: the frame is ready
wire cat house frame
The frame for the cat house is almost ready. At this point, you can tweak the haulage to make the house look better. You can use pliers.
Step 8: create the house
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Pull the shirt over the frame and position it so that the head hole is in the middle of the front wall of the makeshift house.
Tuck the protruding lower part of the T-shirt down, under the bottom of the house. Then tuck the sleeves of the T-shirt in the same way.
Pins securely to the sleeves and the folded section of the T-shirt to hold them in place.
As you can see in the last photo, the fabric is stretched quite tightly over the frame. Try to do the same.
(I know it was possible to shorten the T-shirt, but I decided not to touch it and secure it with regular pins so that in the future it would be easy to take it off and wash it.?)
Step 9: fire up the cat
The cat is enjoying a new home
As you can see, I was lucky and my cat liked her new home. I put some catnip inside just in case.
I will be glad to discuss this work with you in the comments or see photos of your cat houses.
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