Cool!

That is OUTRAGEOUSLY great! Brilliant.

You certainly are an "empress of creativity" ~ wow. Lucky birdies.

This is fantastic. This is making me rethink my position on birds. Wow.

I love this, your finches are lucky birds! It is so much more attractive than the commercial cages available. My cockatiels would thrive in such a spacious, beautiful environment. I don't think I'll hack up my teak armoire anytime soon, though. Thanks for the inspiration.

whoa....very cool.

beautiful

THAT is truly awesome. And it seems no one wants armoires anymore, thanks to the advent of flat-screen TVs. Brilliant!

Very clever...and well-executed too!

This is an impressive DIY project. I hate most armoires (too big, clunky, and heavy) and think they should be chopped up for kindling. This one looks SO much better as a bird cage.

Soooo gorgeous. I'm floored.

This is beautiful, and a nice size for the birds too (the most important thing!). I wish I'd had this idea!

I wish I had seen this before I gor rid of my armoire.

A-mazing.

Fabulous.
This beautiful cage would work well for all sorts of pets.

Time for me to go looking for an old armoire to hack up...

That is so beautiful! I'm content with watching the birds outside my window, but if I wanted some as pets, I would definitely try something like this!

I really love this and have two cockatiels. Very inspiring.

this is wonderful. i'm forwarding this post to my boyfriends aunt who hates her birdcage, and has been trying to sell her armoire on CL for weeks now. sometimes these things just fall into place. thanks :)

This is incredibly awesome. Amy is a genius.

Seems to me something like this would work much better for teh bunnehs than the earlier hack - add in some levels and you've got a fantastic bunny cage! Easy to clean and beautiful too...

Wow, this is gorgeous, I love it. My cockateil would love this, although I don't think space allows at the moment. I just hope she made sure to use all nontoxic paints - and I hope any readers who try to copy this will do so as well. Birds are incredibly sensitive to chemicals, and they like chewing on stuff. I used to work at a bird store, and we always told customers that if they paint birdcages, they should use paints that are advertised as child-safe, and let the piece air out.

That's very creative & beautiful!

wildly creative....great repurposing!!! livc brought up a good point about the paint...bunnies chew everything too so nontoxic paint is very important.

Yeahhhhh... I wish I could do this with our birds, I think the parakeets would dig this, and I wouldn't be afraid of them being in one of these... but our parrots? I know one of 'em would break out in 5 minutes... :D

Beautiful! Lucky birds.

I love it, when I had finches I thought about an avairy, but never thought it would be easy to make a beautiful one. This is very nice.

I did this for my bearded dragon. I bought an old TV cabinet on craiglist, painted it, put mesh on the back and had custom sliding glass reception desk style doors put on the front. Then hung my UVB and heat lights from the top. It works great!

In her post, Amy mentions using nontoxic paints. One other thing to consider is that most birds are also sensitive to the odors emitted by curing MDF and some kinds of treated wood.

While this design would be a great aviary for finches, it would be totally unsuitable for larger birds who like to chew...

Unless the mesh is stainless steel, I would caution any bird owners to do some research on metal toxicity before building something like this. Galvanized mesh has zinc, which is toxic. If this mesh is used, special consideration has to be given to the type, and as much zinc as possible removed from it. It should never be used with birds that chew or use their mouths to climb.

Additionally, paint that's "nontoxic" to humans is far different from something that's "nontoxic" to birds. For example, zinc is toxic to birds and a paint should not contain it. Also, birds have incredibly sensitive respiratory systems. Something as simple fumes from candles, VoCs, or teflon cookware can kill them. If they chew, the paint, the wood (some woods or wood treatments are toxic to birds) or the finish underneath the paint could be deadly. Bar spacing and strength should also be considered to avoid heads getting caught.

I'm a big proponent of aviaries and large cages for bird. This aviary is lovely and might work well for smaller birds like finches. However, I'd encourage anyone considering making this, or even getting birds, to do their research.

That is very nice looking! (i would not have the room)

i do not have birds now, in the past i have had,
- Cockatiels.
- Love Birds.
etc,

birds are a little messy, and cheerful!!

washington state.

YOU WIN!!! Best hack in this contest!

Great idea! It reminds me of my childhood friend and her bird that would always wake me up when we had sleepovers. And...it had to wake up super early!

This is just sweet, so cool, so resourceful, beautiful, imaginative...I Love this!

Outrageou! Love it!