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Loyal Luxe Cardboard Chalet…For Cats

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The Quebequois company Loyal Luxe only has one product so far, but it’s a good one. Everyone knows that cats love cardboard boxes, and the Loyal Luxe Canadian chalet is a very stylish cardboard box for very stylish cats. It ships as a single, flat piece of cardboard, which can be assembled at home without any special tools. At $19 CDN apiece, the chalet is an affordable gift for the cat or the cat lover in your life.

As an added bonus, the chalet is made of recycled cardboard. As a second added bonus, the two industrial designers who run the company have extremely cool names: Maud Beauchamp and Marie-Pier Guilmain. They write that they “intend to rethink the aesthetic and practical aspects of products made for living creatures — either with fur or feathers — with which [we] share our lives.” We wish them well and will be looking out for what they do next.

Guinea Pig Halloween

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Just a sampling of the weirdness, wildness, and occasional over-the-top cuteness that awaits at the Halloween Pets pool on Flickr.

[Photo from piggelicious, via Flickr]

A Space-Saving, Classy Perch for Cats

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Love cats, loathe carpet-covered cat roosts. Are you with me?

At This Old House’s The Hardware Aisle, Meghan Dockendorf writes about wall-mounted cat beds. Thought this was a great idea, and one that reminds me both of our Small Spaces issue (out in October; we are working on it now), and our post about Mr. Sambolini a while back.

Akemi Tanaka’s “Curve” cat bed is available on Supermarket.

Weekend Warriors: Mr. Sambolini’s Solution for a Messy Litter Box

Welcome to “Weekend Warriors.” Every Friday, we run a shining example of a reader’s recent makings—to say TGIF and send you off right into your own weekend’s projects.

Jack and Barbara Tibbetts love their cat, Mr. Sambolini the Magnificent; scattered litter from Mr. Sambolini’s box, not so much. So they designed something really Magnificent—a litter-box enclosure that contains the mess and looks more like “an attractive storage chest” than a sandy mess.

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Barbara writes:

Inspired by other folks’ projects, we decided that our cat’s litter box area needed a do-over. Previously, it was set on a rug remnant with a louvered shutter screen to provide privacy. The scatter and dust were a continuous issue.
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