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There was an addition put on to our house many years ago. It was originally  a hair salon that a lady ran out of the back of her house. But the last few years it has been the bedroom for the cats. They need their own bedroom at night because otherwise they race around the house like maniacs, party under the bed and sit on my head, which is not conducive to a good night’s sleep.

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This room was not pretty. With wood paneling floors, beat up, stained walls and an ugly blue door, it was not a room we were excited to show off. I had dreams of it one day being home to not only our cats, but a washer and dryer, and maybe even a desk.

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Eventually we ripped out the ugly shelving, the old closet, and painted the dank stained walls a nice light grey. It took a while to decide on what to do with the floors, but we finally decided to paint them with high gloss dark grey oil paint. This was the worst part of the process because the cats had to stay out of this room for many days while the paint dried. Which meant I did not sleep well for a while!

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After the floors were primed.

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Another tricky part of the process was the washer and dryer. The only hookups we had for such equipment was on the enclosed back porch, so we had to hire an electrician and a plumber to be able to install a washer and dryer in this room. During this process the cats stayed in our room with a sign on the door that said “Cats inside, do not open!”  But it got opened anyway and the cats nearly escaped for good!

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We traded out the old carpet cat tree that was falling apart, with some slick new modern cat furniture.

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When the walls and floor were down being painted, we took a trip to Ikea to get a new desk, a rug, some cabinets and a few other things to finish the room. The car was so stuffed we could not have bought one more thing!

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The cats love their new bedroom, and I love my new office/laundry room! A room that we never spent any time in, is now one of our favorite rooms.

6 Responses

  1. OMG, Sarah! This is an amazing transformation! It makes me want to turn our second bedroom (aka the office) into something more cat-friendly! I’d love to know where you got the cat furniture 🙂 I wish we could put shelves up under our windows like that, but we have radiators under all our windows 🙁 And I recently bought that rug too – it’s the best!!

  2. Whoa! It looks amazing! You are such a sweet cat momma to let them have a whole room to themselves! One of mine developed a new pesky habbit of climbing on the pillows in the middle of the night so I maybe I should take a page out of your book!

    Jamie

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