It all started many years ago when I made a very basic and down to earth catwalk for
our cats in the basement, we have improved on the design after much thought and inspiration,
and catwalk for kitty was born.
I have made three different models, the big cart, the main cart and the top cart.
And our cats love all three, there is Mimi in the big cart, there is all three cats on
our catwalk downstairs in the basement.
So our smallest is quite small and she loves running around all over the catwalks and exploring
and hiding and you can often find them all sleeping downstairs in the basement, each
in their own individual catwalk, there is Mimi with her head sticking in, I started
working outside in the garage, and things got too much, so I ended up getting a work
space, and I cut the tops and sides, spend all day just cutting the wood really, here
I am cutting some posh strips for the inside of the catwalks.
Each catwalk takes four strips, one on each corner, three quarter each square and run
the entire lengths of the top and the bottom inside, glued and screwed to make sure that
they are actually solid, wonít fall apart upon use.
So we have all three cats on anyone given catwalk at a time and they are pretty strong,
we put out everything that we have been able to throw at it, afterwards I take a template
and move a pencil and mark a nice rounded edge, then with my sand bar, I put a beautiful
rounded edge on all four corners of the top.
A timely process, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of attention, I then place a simple
template on the top and I cut out the opening, well this will only take moments, it does
get quite messy, especially if you are doing four to five at a time, then on the side,
we have various cut outs, depending on what the customer or the client asked for, so this
is a fish cut out, which I drew myself and I painstakingly cut out the templates myself
as well, in order to use them in future.
Here we have a small cat and a cat pull on this one, on one of the big cat designs, and
again if you mess up, the whole thing is messed up, you have to throw it away and start from
the scratch.
This is a popular design with the guys, they like the none pattern, so here we have a bunch
ready to be stained, so I stain them depending on again the customer's choice, from the various
range of stains, and we let those stains sit for like four to five days to make sure everything
holds on perfectly, and there is no harms from chemicals, then they are sealed with
a polythene finish.
Then I painstakingly carpet the top and the interior, to make sure these are as comfortable
as they can be for the cats, to play in, to sleep in and there I am very proud of my work.
There are two big carts, here is the main carts, I love this finish, clear wood with
a certain vanish and a sparkled carpet, here is a big cart with a pool cart window, and
another main cart.
We have made bigger and smaller and in fact here is an image from one of our customers,
very happy, here is one we painted white with a light brown carpet, this is actually why
I really enjoy this, the look and feel of this.
Again there is Mimi with Bugsy inside upon our wall downstairs which goes about seven
and a half feet tall, or eight feet to ceiling.
Community say that these catís lives have been changed since we gave them the run of
the house, here is a big cart, which I believe with jocko been stained with the bird cut
out windows and a light brown carpet, by twelve inches tall and twelve inches deep, there
is plenty of room for the cats go in, turn around, do U-turn inside of this, they are
very comfortable, very plush.
I have discovered my own way on how to lay the carpets so that it just seem less, pretty
secured in there.
And again this is our big cart model, interior, then you will see their support beams glued
and screwed, here we have the more popular design by the guys, I guess they donít want
that cutesy stuff, but this is nice, so I will actually use this by myself, itís nice
and open, still very strong, very plush, very airy design, I want to crawl in there myself.
These are sheet type and there is the cat cut out, again another big cart, four feet
long, twelve inches tall and twelve inches deep, this has a light cream carpet, this
is much more dents carpet and more expensive, the beautiful thing about the carpet is that
you can go to home depot and buy one foot width at a time by twelve feet, so one feet
in length will be enough to make four of this.
We donít just make those three catwalks, I make other things, so our cats could not
sit in the downstairs living room window, so I decided to make a full window catwalk,
something that we could not find anywhere, so I decided to make my own.
I had a furnished ledge initially on the bottom window, but now they have a full expansive
ledge on the bottom, make a climb, top to bottom, and the window basking sun.
These are our many stepping shelves and just like you see, they can walk up the wall, and
you buy them as you need them, place them where you need to, you can do it yourself,
buy the many stepping shelves, just glue them, put them together and screw them.
And it might match into your stores, and if not, there is plenty of sheet rock type of
security matching screws that you can get for hollow walls, these are quite popular.
Here we have the basic catwalks by four inches width and wide, at the bottom is a beautiful
finish wood, stained to your specifications, and on top is a lovely plush carpet.
These usually round around the perimeter of the room with many stepping shelves leading
up to this main catwalk, to which the cats come up and parade around the room, usually
about a feet or two below the ceiling.
These were shipped to a happy customer and they were fixed with hand rails to the wall,
here is a free standing cat shelve, a customer asked for a big cart shelve, but they wanted
a free standing in their kitchen, so we made this, here is a litter box and enclosed litter
box and this one actually had built in electric fan and when the cat is inside, you can gently
take away the fuse.
Thank you so much for watching, liking and subscribing, I have many more videos coming
your way.