Hello you stunning readers you!
You know how I said that my hubs and I were working on an incredibly amazing project? The time has come to show it off the the world! In my last post I introduced you to our newest family member, the lovely Lucy. She is soooo much fun! She loves to play and digs sliding on the kitchen floor (it kills me every time). From the moment we brought her home we couldn't figure out one very important thing... where do we put the liter box? As my blog title indicates, we live in a one bedroom apartment so we don't really have an abundance of space. We decided that we needed to get creative. So we headed to the local thrift store and found this:
This end table has defiantly seen better days. But this project was all about thinking out side of the box... literally. And at $3, if we trashed it we wouldn't feel to guilty. With some spray paint, power tools, and a lot of elbow grease the side table now looks like this:
Yes that is the same table. And I LOVE it!
The new handles are a HUGE improvement. It gave the end table a huge leap out of the early 80's.
I spray painted the whole thing black and antiqued it with sand paper. But it was missing some thing. So I added some lovely stencil designs to the front and top. It gave it the color and definition that I was hoping for as well as contribute to the antiqued feel I was going for. Here is a shot of the front:
And here is one of the top:
Now you may be thinking "Well that is a great looking table, but how does this tie in with Lucy and the liter box?". Let me show you...
This is the kitty door on the side. The kitty door leads to the hidden liter box inside the end table. That's right, I said inside:
This is where the hubs and the power tools come in. He was sweet enough to cut a hole in the side for the kitty door and vent in the back (we had to give her fresh air in there- sorry, didn't take a picture of the vent). He loves using power tools.
We placed a mat on the bottom so that it was 1: softer on her little paws and 2: collect a little liter. There is a good 4-5 inches between the door and the liter box so she has a little room in there.
I wish that I could take credit for this genius idea but I can't. I found it here:
Our version is not as big as hers because we have a smaller home and a smaller cat. But we also added one other addition. Because our table did not have the cracks in the wood for light we had to find some way to add some light in that dark little box. So we got a little light and placed it on the door:
This little light makes for one much happier kitty.
Well folks, it's time I go get dinner started. Plus I think some one is ready for me to get off the computer:
Have a safe and happy week!
That's way smart! And it looks really great. I especially love the stencils.
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