Tutorial: DIY Cat Tree / Condo / Resort from Cardboard
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- Upcycled cardboard box to cat resort
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- cat condo made of cardboard box that shipped an oven
I don’t mean to brag, but I totally built a badass cat condo from cardboard boxes and tubes that were being thrown out behind an appliance store. Two boxes the size of a kitchen stove plus the strong supports and tubing from them creates one awesome cat house with three different levels.
I’m going to be posting pictures and a brief tutorial on this totally recycled, upcycled, and re-useful cat condo from cardboard I built soon. This post is the motivation for that.
Update: I’ve added some outside pictures here to wet your appetites. Basically there is a bottom floor, a middle floor, and a top floor with another box on top of that. Of course there is a hole on the second floor and the top floor so they can easily get from one to the other from within the resort. It’s held together with zip ties in strategic places to hold it all together and support the weight of the cats.
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A little background:
I really dig computers and what they can do for us these days. I started out with AOL 3.0 and was about 15/16 at the time. A good friend and neighbor of mine weren’t satisfied with just chatting and emailing other people, nor were we interested in news, so we ventured out to see what this Internet was capable of. We began by making AOL do things it wasn’t meant to do. We found excitement in free software, we used tools others created to easily boot other people off AOL, or lag their computers. We felt power in making our own websites and providing information we thought was useful to others. (We actually rode our bikes around town and wrote down payphone numbers and posted them online so we could call the local mall, taco stand, or even Disneyland, just to see who’d answer.) We were fascinated by midi files because it meant we could listen to some horrible sounds that vaguely reminded us of a popular song on the radio or from Star Wars. Of course that was before MP3 files became popular. We even figured out a way to gain access to a coupon spitting computer at the mall via the Internet and change some background pictures to reflect our love for Star Wars. Editing a computer remotely and driving over to the mall to see the changes in person was a glorious event (although very stupid of us, but hey we weren’t even 18 yet.).
Those memories still fuel my lust for more knowledge of computers and the awesome power they hold for us today. Through out the years I’ve been able to use my computer as a stereo, movie player, answering machine, FM radio, photo editing, web page creation, journal, personal assistant, video game console, communications tool (text, audio & video), photograph slideshow,… and the list keeps going and growing.
I’ve always been interested in sharing my knowledge and getting others to see the capabilities a simple computer can do. Sure not everything is worth the time to set up and use on a daily basis (yet), but things are only getting easier.
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