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A Comfortable, Sustainable and Agile Cat House For Your Feline Friends

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Cat owners understand the importance of providing a comfortable and engaging space for their feline friends. KOTE, a series of playful cat houses, stands out as a perfect blend of design, sustainability, and functionality. Available in two sizes and crafted from plywood and felt, these cat houses offer a cozy haven for cats of all breeds.

Designer: Ross Sorokovyi, (mudu studio)

Kote cat houses come in two sizes, ensuring that both smaller and larger breeds have a space tailored just for them. The KOTE_S, with dimensions of 480x240x240mm, is ideal for petite felines, while the KOTE_L, measuring 720x240x240mm, provides ample room for larger cats. This thoughtful sizing ensures that every cat can enjoy the benefits of a Kote cat house.

Crafted from plywood, these cat houses prioritize sustainability and durability. Wood is an eco-friendly material that not only ensures the longevity of the product but also adds a touch of natural warmth to your home. The use of plywood aligns with the growing trend of environmentally conscious pet products, allowing cat owners to make a choice that benefits both their pets and the planet.

The design of these cat houses goes beyond functionality, incorporating curved edges that give the structures a softer and more appealing look. This attention to detail not only enhances the visual appeal of the cat houses but also ensures that they seamlessly integrate into modern home decor.

Kote cat houses feature strategically placed holes on alternative edges, turning the simple act of entering and exiting into an engaging playtime activity for your feline companion. This interactive design encourages physical activity, mental stimulation, and a sense of exploration, keeping your cat entertained and active.

The interior of each Kote cat house is lined with felt cushioning, providing a soft and comfortable space for your pet to rest. The cozy environment is designed to make your cat feel secure and at ease, ensuring that this cat house becomes their favorite spot for relaxation.

Maintaining a clean and hygienic environment for your cat is made easy with these cat houses. The structures can be easily disassembled, allowing pet owners to clean every nook and cranny thoroughly. This feature ensures that your cat’s living space remains fresh and sanitary, promoting their overall well-being. Whether your feline friend is small or large, the Kote cat house offers a stylish and functional solution that enhances your home while prioritizing the well-being of your beloved pet.

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Petpartment is a space for both you and your feline buddies

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For those who have cats (or any pets for that matter) at home, I can imagine that it’s a constant balance of keeping them entertained and also keeping them from ransacking your space. I am not a pet owner (ooohing and aaahing at cute pets is the only thing I can do) but I see my friends trying to solve this issue by getting all kinds of accessories and tools for their fur babies, including the very instagrammable cat trees. But what if you have a small space and you need something that can be both for you and your cat?

Designer: S2Victor Design Studios

Petpartment is a concept for a space for both the cat and the cat owner so you can have a “beautiful life with your beloved pets”. What makes it different from the usual cat trees is that it doesn’t just let your cat be like Obi-Wan Kenobi and have the higher ground. It’s actually meant to be decorative and functional for both of you and hide those interiors that you don’t want them to harm while they’re playing or going about their day.

The architecture of this pet apartment is well thought out and actually has four different angles with different functions as well. The front view is a showcase of the material used which is red oak and stainless steel. It looks like a bookshelf but instead of filling it with books, you can fill it with a cat or two. But there’s also room for books as the left side has storage space for both your stuff and your cat’s snacks, toys, etc. I just don’t know if I can trust cats to be around my beloved books but that’s just me, a non-pet person.

The right side is where your cats are meant to go crazy since it’s designed as their playground. The rear view is meant to be their “viewing deck” if the Petpartment is placed near a window. So there you have it, four different views and angles to play around if you need your cat’s apartment within your apartment be something that you can use too. It’s a nice piece of furniture to have in your space, maybe even if you don’t have any pets at all.

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A cardboard cat house stripped down to its bare essentials delivers affordability, portability and fun

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Petsy is a cat house made from the bare essentials—just cardboard.

Cats don’t need much, even a cardboard box will do. Moments after opening one from a shipment, your cat’s already found their hideaway, zen zone for the day. When they’re not in the mood for cuddling, a cardboard box is their personal playpen and private hideaway.

Designer: Ekaterina Vagurina

If cats are so agreeable when it comes to new digs, why spend more money than you have to? Ekaterina Vagurina used just cardboard to give rise to her cat house called Petsy to encourage cat owners to skip carpeted cat towers and opt instead for an affordable and simple cardboard house.

Resembling the shape of an actual house, Petsy keeps a wide and lofty internal volume for cats to stretch and curl up to their heart’s content. Unadorned and unpainted, Petsy is a no-nonsense cat house that’s stripped down to its bare essentials—just the cardboard. In fact, if Petsy were to hit the markets, the entire house could be shipped as-is, no extra packaging necessary.

Cats are known to be curious and temperamental at the same time. They like to supervise, but good luck supervising them. Petsy comes with a large front door that only your cat will be small enough to slip into, as well as perforated holes on both ends of the house. On one end, a large circular hole allows your cat to poke their head through, while smaller perforations on the opposite end are just the right size for your cat to paw at the outside.

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This flatpack cat tower comes with integrated scratching posts and a top bed for functionality and comfort!

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Float is a flatpack cat tower with built-in scratching pads that can be assembled in just a few steps.

Keeping cats entertained is a losing game. With all of the toys we buy for our feline friends, they still seem to prefer the armchair for scratching and balls of yarn for chasing. But then, that rare piece of furniture comes along made specifically for them that becomes their favorite spot for a midafternoon cat nap.

It might come through as a scratching post that catches their claws in just the right spots, or a cushioned bed that’s snugger than the corner of the couch. Or, it might be Float, a four-tier cat tower designed by João Teixeira that blends versatile design with comfort and simplicity.

Amounting four levels, Float is a flatpack cat tower with integrated features like scratching posts and movable seat rests. Following a client’s specifications and criteria, Teixeira designed Float so that it would blend into any modern home. Taking on a Scandinavian-inspired overall look, Float achieves a minimalist profile through natural, unstained wooden rods as well as cool, gray felt cushions.

From its final look to its assembly process, Float was designed to optimize functionality and versatility. Opting for a vertical, single tower build, Float is aptly sized for smaller homes as well as larger living rooms, fitting snugly in any corner of the room. Comprised of only a few parts, Float has been given a plywood base that bolsters wooden rods connected to one another by elastic tubing.

Throughout the main wooden rod’s length, Teixeira incorporated scratching posts so that cats will always be within paw’s reach of a scratchy surface. Before tightening the whole tower together, cat owners can adjust the distance between each felt pad as well as the overall height of the Float cat tower. Based on an assembly process of threaded wooden rods, the height can be adjusted by adding or removing modules.

Designer: João Teixeira

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Designed for cats, this magnetic modular climbing wall system is for your pets of all sizes and ages!

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Nyanpeki is a modular climbing wall system for cats that boasts an easy assembly and removal process, complete with magnetized felt components that provide jumping spots and hideouts for your cat to enjoy throughout the day and night.

There’s hardly anything more exciting for cat owners than new furniture designed for their feline friends. From scratching towers to chirping bird toys, and from cardboard papers to tissue paper, cats have no problem finding ways to entertain themselves. So when product designs come out that encourage cats to climb and scratch to their paw’s delight, cats make a jungle gym out of them.

The Nyanpeki, which translates to Cat Wall, from LIXIL Corporation is a modular climbing wall system that incorporates hiding spots and felt scratching posts for cats to play and rest for the rest of their days. Built for cat owners to create a unique playground for their cats, the Nyanpeki is formed from a magnetized assembly system that can just as easily attach to walls as it can be removed.

Designed for cats of all shapes, sizes, ages, and health conditions, the Nyanpeki can be adjusted throughout its shelf life to adapt to your cat’s changing needs. As your cat grows in age, the Nyanpeki’s height can be adjusted to meet your cat’s lumbar movements and changing jumping abilities. Modular by design, consumers can purchase single modules to create endless configurations and add baskets and felt hideouts to preexisting wall systems.

By creating a climbing system that remains on the wall, users will be able to keep their living space free from the clutter that cat toys bring. The modules attach to walls with little to no hardware required, making for an easy assembly and cleanup process. Additionally, each module boasts a load-bearing design to ensure that they have sufficient strength to hold up cats and for cats to jump from module to module. Awarded with recognition from Good Design Awards, the Nyanpeki received the honor in the Hobby goods and pet care supplies category.

Designer: LIXIL Corporation

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This modern apartment has a suspended glass cabin which is goals for cat lovers and their pets!

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Cats and humans have different needs and both love personal space – so can these two spaces coexist without compromise? InDot Design created a whole modern apartment that revolves around a glass ‘cat cabin’ which is seamlessly integrated into modern interior aesthetics. No more eye-sore cat trees that don’t fit in with your style! The team broke the previous form of partition walls and placed glass boxes in the space to form a spatial field. You can watch your cats while they watch you and both can still have defined boundaries. The cat cabin is like a floating glass box with a circular iron tube as the main support which also serves as a playful element for your pets.

The CMF of glass, wood, and black accents has been maintained with the cat cabin as well as the house so it all looks like one homogenous, open space. The aesthetics are warm, linear, and clean. “On the plane configuration, the living room and study are open, the yellow block at the rear is the cat house, and the red wall is the workspace of the hostess. Use a couch combined with the cat house; we put a glass suspended space in the space so that the layers overlap. The space also has a different sense of penetration,” explains the team.

The suspended cat cabin is measured in size and a viewing platform is deliberately opened in the window to face the views while the ceiling and side of the box are designed with solid wood grilles which are both light and breathable. It extends from the entrance porch cabinet to the living room cabinet. The open behind the sofa is the study room. The seam on the side of the desk is a space where you can move around. Open the wall of the study room and the guest room to form a back-shaped moving line. It is a field of light and shadow, and it has also become a fuzzy zone of the game of life. This apartment is interior design goal for cat parents, but it is the ultimate cool home for cats

Designer: Zheng Minghui Armin Cheng

This DIY paper cat house makes a quirky hiding place fit for your feline friends!

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We can learn a thing or two from cats– they never get bored. If there’s a box in the house, you can bet your cat will find it and make a day of it. We have a symbiotic relationship that way– we buy a product and cats play in its packaging. The benefit for them is playing in a box, while ours is that we get to watch them play in a box. To make our role a little more exciting, Taesung Yoon designed Pulpet, a DIY paper cat house.

Pulpet initially consists of eco-friendly paper cutouts, which are ultimately handcrafted and put together to assemble a cat house in the shape of a geometric, sitting cat. Users can easily assemble Pulpet without any additional building components. Prepared with all the necessary contents for assembly, Pulpet is easily constructed by adhering the geometric faces together to form the shape of a cat. If like me, the shape of a cat doesn’t readily come to your creative eye, an assembly manual comes included with the paper house cutouts.

To make Pulpet eco-friendly, Taesung Yoon sourced FSC-certified paper material harvested from forests that are responsibly managed and environmentally conscious. Since cats can’t help but scratch and claw at cardboard, Taesung Yoon chose paper material that doesn’t puncture easily and won’t elicit any scratching from your cat. Further enhancing Pulpet’s durability factor, the paper comes equipped with lightfast technology so that Pulpet’s black exterior won’t fade in sunlight, measures a neutral pH level, and uses chlorine-free bleaching pulp, which protects both your cat and the environment.

Designer: Taesung Yoon

Shaped in the image of a sitting cat, Pulpet is instantly recognizable to your feline friend.

Larger than the average-sized cat, Pulpet is large enough to fit any cat but small enough to fit into any interior space.

The matte black shading of Pulpet provides a personal hiding place for your cat.

Cats love to hide in boxes because they recall hunting instincts.

Precise measuring of each assembly piece is crucial for building Pulpet.

Through adhesive backing, each piece of Pulpet can easily be attached to and detached from one another.

This modular cat furniture is designed to be a lounge for you and your pet!

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Since everyone is staying home, a lot of our attention has been captured by the furniture around us which has got thinking about how it can be more multifunctional, space-saving, and aesthetic. Furniture design is moving towards a more flexible direction and CatYou in a Circle is a wonderful display of modular pieces that work for both humans and pets.

The set includes a floor sofa and a coffee table that aims to create a relaxing space for cats and their owners to have some downtime. Urban homes are only getting smaller and cat owners are faced with challenges to keep their pets entertained without taking up too much space. During quarantine, it has become more of a lesson as we share our space with them 24/7. The designer administered a questionnaire and after 233 responses it was found one-third of the cat owners living under 50 square meters. The four main problems that the design needed to solve based on their feedback were – not enough hiding space, cat furniture occupies too much living space, renovation is often not an option, and people want to have enough room to bond with their cats during playtime. The goal was to incorporate the behavior of people and cats in one design that worked to create a functional and playful space for both.

People in small living spaces use low furniture (such as rugs, floor chairs) to build intimate relaxing areas while cats prefer covert spaces, but due to the limited space, there are not many places to hide or play. CatYou in a Circle didn’t want to separate the pets from their owners so it is designed to cleverly bring them together while also maintaining boundaries. The hollow armrests and backrest offer cats a playground and hiding territory while the coffee table provides a place to sleep. The woven bamboo texture makes it possible for owners to see their cats even when they are hiding and play with through its holes. The size of holes is different in different parts of the furniture to adapt to the needs of the pet as well as humans. The backrest holes are smaller to make the cats feel more secure. But holes above are bigger so that when people lean on the sofa, they can see through the backrest and find their cats underneath. The armrest holes are bigger to offer more opportunities to interact. But holes above it are smaller to make resting your arms more comfortable. There are also two large holes on each side of armrests that allow the curious cats to pop their heads or hands out.

To make it more comfortable and cozy, fabric cushions are placed at the bottom of the armrests and the coffee table. They are skin-friendly and also absorb smell so it works especially well for smaller homes. The cushions are laundry-friendly and the armrests can be stretched out or pushed back in depending on the space and needs. The bamboo adds a touch of warmth and keeps it airy and visually light. Most cat furniture on the market is focused on either just the pet or just the interior aesthetic for the owners, it is rare to find pet furniture that works for the behavioral and spatial needs of both while still upholding the standards of style. CatYou in a Circle emphasizes the concept of “passive companion”, which leaves an autonomous space for cats. Flexible furniture should be extended to pets as well, after all, our house belongs more to them than it does to us!

Designer: Jack Dogson

This modular cat home is customized for your pet’s lifetime happiness

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Browsing through Pinterest for your dream homes is so 2019, in 2020 we are browsing through pet homes and I am not ‘kitten’ when I say that cats certainly have cooler options than we ever will. They don’t pay rent and that is always going to be the coolest part but the pet homes are truly taking an artistic turn and I don’t mind having this modern cat home that is specifically customized for your feline friend’s happiness to last a lifetime! The design has been mindful of 3 elements – the space, the cat, and the person. Space is shared between the cat and the owner and this pet product works in the favor of that symbiotic relationship – all the cat’s needs are met and the owner’s interior space/style remains undisturbed.

The designer has imagined everything your pet needs to live their best life possible and included it in the details of this modular cat house. Every traditional shape and element has been reimagined to add a fresh perspective. The scratching board, for example, has been created to evoke an emotional response from the cat and make it a pleasant experience not bound by the stereotypical forms but still meeting the behavioral need to dig/scratch. Play around with the shape and structure, create something that works for you and your pet and if your pet gets bored easily, just switch up the arrangement and voila, a whole new apartment! The scratch pads can be set up in various different ways to increase the playing area while still being a practical element. “It is a balance between new and old. I have used our most common materials and structures in life to design new design styles, extend the life cycle of products, reduce product costs from another angle, and strengthen the relationship between brands and users by expanding product forms and functions,” says the designer.

It uses a familiar frame structure and it is flexible to the owner’s space and the cat’s demands – it also works for multiple cats! Sisal balls and corrugated paper complete the structure and encourage cats to behave as they would in their natural element, the choice of materials makes them more comfortable and the earthy tones bring a zen energy to the environment it is in. It integrates the human-cat-space elements into one pet product which is more entertaining, useful, and cost-effective because it serves multiple purposes. The cat house is adaptable and expandable to suit your flexible lifestyle. Add soft cushions, some toys, a litter box and you have a beautiful cat home with a minimal aesthetic that will fit your style and space!

Designer: He Yuhui

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This geometric pet house will ease your separation anxiety

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Dog houses are can be too high-end looking or too casual and either way, they draw attention in the room. If you are someone who wants to always be able to see their pets and are equally particular about your interior design aesthetic, then the Casano dog house was made for you!

Casano has a light and airy feel that extends to the room it is placed in, especially if you have a smaller apartment then it is a well-designed alternative to the traditional bulky dog house. It gives your pet a natural territorial separation while blending in seamlessly with your interior settings. It is created with a simple black iron frame that adds minimal elegance to your existing decor. The choice of using an iron frame for the build was so that the upkeep and care can be minimal. The floorboard is made of 15 mm thick laminated maple lumber – you can add a cushion to match the color scheme and for a little extra comfort.

The geometric visuals of the Casano make it stand out from the out pet houses in the market. Pets will have a feeling of “my space” where they can wind down and have some distance from the people in the house while the owners can put their separation anxiety at rest because they will still be able to see their best friend.

Casano is a winner of the iF Design Award for the year 2020.

Designer: Kazutoshi Miura of Miuka Design