This is a very unnecessary
but fun project…I’m building the cat a little house. For the past 3 years, this
cardboard box that I turned into a ‘bunker’ has been sitting in our front room.
The cat loves it and hides in there all the time, so we have been unwilling to
throw it out.
Then I saw this cool
cardboard cat house online, made of hexagons and square pieces. The angles are
a little complicated, a hexagon is all 120 degree angles, but I wasn’t sure
what the angle where the hexagons and squares met was. So I built a 3D model
out of cardboard and I’m very glad I did. All the angles turned out to be 120
degrees…but with 9” sides on the hexagons, the structure was way too big…about 24”
high.
Ultimately I decided to
scale it down to 7” sides on the hexagons. Using ¼” plywood I started tracing
my pieces and cutting them out with angled edges so they but together nicely.
To strengthen the joints (and have something to nail into) I cut 1x1x5.5”
strips of pine with a 120 degree on one side.
I managed to assemble 75% of
it before running out of nails and time. I am trying to decide what shape to
cut the opening as; it will be in the middle of one of the hexagons. The model
online had it shaped like a cat head but alternately I was thinking of a circle
for flexibility (if the cat didn’t like jumping the 6” to get it, I could just
rotate the structure so the entry hexagon was closer to the ground)
And now we know: the cat is
already using the cardboard one so Tom thought I should just keep that instead
of re-building with wood…but never minding how huge it is, it will get grotty
again.
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