HOUSE FOR KOTE

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When designing a game complex for a cat, the idea arose of making a hanging house on the ground floor. Main requirements: lightweight, durable, stable construction from improvised materials. I did not want to spend extra money on the basis for the house, the cardboard box was unlikely to withstand active use for a long time, the house would have been heavy from wooden blocks and plywood. Therefore, four five-liter plastic bottles were prepared for the house, a leopard fleece section, a synthetic winterizer section, carpet trimmings, adhesive tape, glue, thread and a needle.
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 stiffeners and our design. Carefully put a rectangle of synthetic winterizer into each bottle, make folds at the bottom of the bottle and in the shoulders so that the synthetic winterizer lies flat, stitch along the edge through the synthetic winterizer and plastic.

Then, just as well, we put a fleece rectangle into the workpiece and also flash it. We collect the bottles all together, stitch all the joints through, through fabrics 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, cut a hole of a smaller diameter in the fabric, make small cuts and sheathe the edge of the entrance. For greater strength, we wrap the house with tape several times, with tape we 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 battery, the cat slept only there, since the plastic base heats up quickly and keeps heat very well; the fleece mattress closes the bottle joints; the house is soft and comfortable.

The next stage is the preparation of the house for embedding it in the complex. First you need to refine it.

We fit his fleece. We sew a wide strip of fleece, the length of which is the perimeter of the house, into the pipe, on the one hand we twist the edge and stitch it, insert the cord elastic, put the pipe on the house, tighten the elastic around the neck of the bottles, fix it tightly, but not quite end-to-end, so that there is a small supply. Then we tighten the fabric a little around each neck and stitch it. On the bottom of the house in the corners we make folds and sew the fabric so that the fleece fits snugly everywhere and there are no bubbles. At the entrance of the fleece, we cut exactly along the edge, sew the fleece with the inner trim.

We add decorative finishes to the tone of the game complex, on the lower edge we glue a strip of carpet 5 cm wide and a strip around the entrance, you can sew on strips for strength. We glue small triangular pieces of carpet on the top of the house, the shoulders of the bottles, and the house immediately takes on an elegant and slightly unusual look.

The last stage: we hang the house on the bar between the pipes of the complex on jute twine, tightly pull the bottle handles to each other and fix the twine. The house is ready.