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This is the project I’ve gotten the most compliments on for it’s ingenuity and requests to build replicas for others. My first commission piece. :-) (although relatives don’t pay very well) It’s not pretty or particularly difficult. The finish is…well there is no finish. I like it because it solved a problem. Where to put the litter box?
So I cut a hole in the wall between one of the bathrooms and the garage, built a box, added rope light, and made a door. Bingo, problem solved. Litter box and associated smell and litter dust is hidden away. Everyone’s happy, even the cats.
I mean come on, what cat wouldn’t like a lighted litter box with some privacy? :-)
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While designing this my wife and I discussed the possibility of putting this on an exterior wall and putting the box outside. Of course that would mean some insulation and maybe some siding to match the house, but the point is, it doesn’t necessarily need to go in the garage or start in a bathroom, that’s just easier.
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lew
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#1 posted 1591 days ago
This is Super Cool!- Or should I say the “Cat’s Meow”? :^)
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#2 posted 1591 days ago
Great Idea!! I wish my bathroom backed up to the garage now. Thanks for sharing.
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#3 posted 1591 days ago
I have got to show my daughter this. I wish I could think of a way to do it at her house. It would keep the stupid dog out of it. (you don’t want to know).
-- Berta in NC
cpt_hammer
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#4 posted 1591 days ago
I did roughly the same idea in my old house in Georgia, but I didn’t frame the door entrance or build a box since it went straight into the laundry room where I already kept the litter box. I wish I could do something similiar in my new house, but so far, haven’t come up with any good ideas of where to exactly put the cat litter box or the doorway. I’ll figure it out eventually.
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#5 posted 1590 days ago
brilliant!
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#6 posted 1590 days ago
Peloton, Welcome to LumberJocks. What a great solution to a common problem. Thansk for sharing.
CtL
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#7 posted 1590 days ago
what a great idea just showed it to my wife big mastake I i have to build one too.
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jim1953
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#8 posted 1589 days ago
Wow Thats Cool Great idea
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Jerry
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#9 posted 1480 days ago
That is the cat’s a**
thanks for sharing a great idea!!
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#10 posted 1479 days ago
This is the Cats
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#11 posted 1388 days ago
i’ve got a “hidden” litter box as well – it beats the hell out of the traditional exposed kind.
but this passage through the bathroom is SWEET. i love how the molding matches and everything. very nice work on this.
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#12 posted 1275 days ago
I wish I was a cat.
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Lisa
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#13 posted 221 days ago
What an inventive solution! Love it! Considering combining two ideas (yours and http://lumberjocks.com/projects/36291) by placing the entry hole in the back for entry from the next room (guest bathroom) and using the countertop and drawer space in the adjacent laundry room. :)
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