Links are going to a totally different looking house, also with cats.

I'm getting the Mark Macek house (another Austin home with felines) on all the "house tour" links, like @asizzle says. I understand it's a holiday, but it'd be nice to get that fixed ASAP, please. Thanks! :) PS: Love all the cats, and glad to know there are folks with MORE cats than I have out there! ;)

I was confused until I got to the comments. Both are Austin houses--but they are different houses, so can you fix the links? Thanks!

And they sound like very nice, animal-loving people, but 8 cats AND cat artwork everywhere strikes me as a bit much. But I'll wait to see the tour.

Oops - blame it on 3-day weekend brain. Links fixed.

Love the bedroom photos with the cats ! and the photos with the humans relaxing with their sweet little pets. The bedroom is wonderful --well the entire house is great and the kitchen ! the kitchen is beautiful. I have to add ...the cat in the drawer is just adorable.

I love the patio furniture. Anyone know where they are from?

Love the concrete floors, stairs, and modern feel. So much light which is wonderfully reflected by the floors. My only suggestion as a librarian is to move your books on that wonderful vertical shelving unit to an inside wall and away from the window :)

I really like the house and how the cats were incorporated into the design. They're very cute.

Hi Matt and Leah, thank you for sharing your wonderful home and your adorable kitties! I loved every pic of your carefully furnished home (esp. that amazing kitchen table) and your deep connection to the furry ones. Do you guys have a blog or something, I would like to see even more? Greetings from another crazy cat lady!

Beautiful! I am just curious to know, how do you keep the kitties from eating your orchids and other toxic plants?

So. Great. It's given me some very useful ideas as we settle into our new home with our many (though not THAT many) critters.
Is it weird that I would really like to see a photo or two of your cat litter room? Your place is gorgeous, but that is the room that intrigues me most. Got any you could send in? Thanks!

I registered to say that I love concrete floors...especially yours. The overall style is beautifully clean and with the right touch of warmth, not from textiles, but from a lot of woods and greens. So friggin cat friendly!!

We have 9 cats, no I'm not competing, because we also have a household of 7 people so it's easy to spread the love. Your cats never get jealous and start fighting? Ours do : /

Oh and I saw Friends playing on your TV and my sisters and I still watch it religiously so it made me twice as excited. I want your home.

Love your home and all the cute kitties! :)
What are your tricks to making them not scratch the furniture. I have one cat and he can get scratch happy & ignore his cat scratcher.

What a great house and what beautiful kitties! I would have loved to see that DIY litter box room setup, just in case...you know...I ever find myself with a house, a handyman, and a couple more cats. :)

"The kitties use the bathroom" confused the hell out of me for a moment! AT, please remember that this is an exclusively American phrase. Other nationalities aren't as coy when it comes to describing natural functions and I know there are readers here from all over the world.

When I first moved to the States I was very confused when someone told me that he had 'taken his dog out to go to the bathroom'. He then said that the dog 'didn't go to the bathroom outside but then s*** on the rug inside'. From coy to explicit in one sentence!

Love the wood elements, all the windows and the color of the concrete floors and the outdoor space!

I expected even more AT pix of the cats, but loved the ones I saw, esp. of the cat in the under-bed drawer. So cute.

I'm surprised to not see larger art pieces or decor on those large walls, but clearly they like what they have, and cat photos in particular :)

Their condo assn. must have different rules than mine in the SF Bay Area, where each household is limited to 2 pets. (As much as I love cats, the max. rule makes sense to me. I'm in a 25-unit complex, and among the residents, we own at least 7 dogs and at least 8 cats -- 2 of which are mine)-- and those are just the ones I know of. ) But I give this couple LOTS of credit for managing to join together 2 households and 8 cats! That takes some patience and some ingenuity! :)

My mother had that exact white milk-glass candy dish on the coffee table the whole time I was growing up. Funny how much it startled me to see one in an environment so different from hers.

Absolutely beautiful patio and I love the dining table and chairs. Great juxtaposition.

@amaranta, everyone has their euphemisms, all over the world, and that happens to be an Americanism. I once had an older Irish lady tell me she was walking until her poodle dropped a penny. Other people say their pets "do their business", while others resort to baby talk (pee and poo). English people say they use the loo, Austrailians say the dunny. In some places "the WC" may still be in use. It's the beauty of language. I say stick with local (local to writer) patterns of speech.

This is a lovely home and your cats are adorable! Thank you for showing your slipcovered furniture and how elegant it can be. I have two little boys and have purchased a similar set for our furniture. :)

i adore your place , the white, wood and fur babies, My burmese used to open the drawer under the bed and sleep there, most I ever had in my little apartment, were two cats, but I think the more the merrier, They are all adorable.

At one time, we had 3 cats, then the really old one died (age 21 1/2) and one of the young ones died a few months (she wasn't quite 7 y/o and had complications from diabetes). That was 2 years ago, and on the weekend, we adopted another kitten. So now we have a cat who is almost 9 y/o and a kitten who is almost 9 weeks old! The little one is just a bundle of energy, on the go all the time, until she drops. We've got a number of toys and scratching posts and we've covered the couch that we bought only last fall. I figure I just don't want to take a chance on it just yet! (The older one is actually handling the little one ok - he's not thrilled, but he's dealing with it.)

So I commend you on being able to manage 8 cats, and btw, your place is lovely!

First, Love the cats! In a house this big you can easily have 8 cats, and if they can keep 8 cute cats out of the animal shelter that's awesome.

Second, I really like that the furniture is the right size for the space, and that it has room to breath. So nice.

Thanks for sharing your home.

Is Phoebe from "Friends" singing "Smelly Cat" in that one picture? If so, that's awesome.

Im not a cat person, but its very admirable that these folks care enough about animals to help them. And KUDOS for having a spotless house.

Wow - that's a lot of cats!

Stunning home! The amount of space is amazing... Lots of cool choices with furniture, and the cats, why the hell not!

Note to self: replace adorable dog with multiple cats in next House Tour for guaranteed Likes and comments.

@ RURAL AND RUEFUL Agreed! Local is good. However, the internet isn't 'local'. As you say, language is beautiful.

Leah here - thanks for all of the lovely comments! I love reading the animal stories the tour invokes. Pets are awesome.

As for cat tips -
@JAX217I wish I had a good one for furniture scratching. The couch under the slip cover fell victim to them years ago. Redirecting when they're kittens seems to have curtailed it a bit, but they still have their moments.

@AIMY For the plant eating, they've stayed away from trying to eat the orchids. For the others, we're big proponents of spraying them with water to train them away. I've also used the cayenne pepper trick - misting the plant with water and then sprinkling cayenne pepper, just the smell keeps them away.

@LAETITIAE the litter room is awesome. Let me see if I can find some photos.

Love your home! My favorite has to be the bedroom, it is so lovely and serene, and seeing all those cats hanging out in the bedroom put a smile on my face. Glad to see someone who loves cats as much as I do! I too would love to see the litter room!

Any information about the great looking cat food feeders?

So many cats and I love them all!

um, whoever this house belongs to, i still win: i have NINE cats.

I totally love that out door furniture

Anyone know where the bedding is from? Really nice.

I have 16 cats.

Not really.

16? That's nothing. I have 25+ furry feline friends.

And nope, not crazy.

Great floors!! We have them in our dungeon of a basement and I've always wished I could transport them up here. They are fabulous!!!

Lovin' the cat art, too. Your bedroom is just beautiful.

I got a sample of Flor to see how it was. I immediately thought it would make a great cat scratcher! :) At least if any of your kitties have the same idea you can change 'em out.

Best kitchen ever. Sleek and functional. So fun to see the cats in so many pics.

I like the comment about "accept that things will be scratched", because I am struggling with this right now. My cat just had a go at my ottoman, which she has mostly ignored since I bought it a year ago. Argh!!! I figure I'll recover it when there is no longer a "good side" to turn towards the room.

Lovely place! Very spacious and airy and your furniture only enhances it. Well done.
My favourite pic was #32 - the bar(??) where there is a kitty curled up in the wooden dish.

My only disappointment (and a big one) is that there was no picture with all 8 cats lined up - I was hoping for a glimpse of the whole menagerie.

Oh, forgot to say that I LOVE your dining room table.

@Romebe - very similar bedding it available (or was) at West Elm.

I thought I was going nuts here! I read "eight cats" but kept seeing the black and white one and the black one..and then I got to the bedroom photos and realized there were two fluffy black cats! All in all, I counted two black cats, one tuxedo cat, one gray tabby, and an orange cat. It was like playing I Spy!

Onto the house, though. I adore it. It's so functional and organized and comfortable! I like that the cats basically hang out wherever they want, including drawers and sinks. Clearly, you've realized that the feline overlords are going to ignore your wishes anyway, and hide in the sink when you need to use it :)

I need a Claritin just to look at this post.

Love this place and the kitties are an added bonus. As someone living in Austin with cats I appreciate the clean lines of their place and that the cats are part of the family.

Also, it's clear that the black and white kitty runs the house.

Wow, the light in that home is amazing. Each room is saturated with natural light. Love it.

In this case MCM stands not for Mid-Century Modern but for Multiple Cat Mania.

Ditto, MJS7640.

Gorgeous gorgeous home and I haven't had time to read the comments to see if this was addressed but I noticed the a lilly in the bedroom. I couldn't tell if it was fake but I hope so, as lillies are extremely poisonous to cats - even inhaling the pollen can give them nasty kidney problems.

http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants/lily.aspx

Patrick, LOL :))

Gorgeous!! I love it all.

And yes, that bedding is from West Elm -- we have the identical set. It's beautiful!

Great! I love the concrete floors and the wonderful windows in the kitchen. Such a clean & modern home. I don't know how you guys keep it so clean - amazing. Say hi to the kittehs for me.

I love cats, have had cats, but I think any and all pets should stay off of counters and dining tables. It takes a very small amount of work when they are kittens to teach them this.

DITTO to the 'litter box room' pic requests! I have 3 cats... and a diligent (amazing) hubby who cleans the box twice a day, but we still fight a daily battle with the flying cat hair and litter confetti! Every morning we wake up to sand dunes of litter, cascading across the living room floor ;/ We have hardwood floors throughout our house, and even though we keep the litter box in a separate room, and try the astro-turf mats, obstacle courses, etc etc... nothing seems to stop the tracking of litter EVERYWHERE...
Matt and Leah, please tell me you have a novel solution to this! I know you have to have the same problem... because fluffy cats with paw tufts= pockets of litter waiting to be deposited!

Love your home! Can you please tell me your source for the "angel cat" picture outside your kitchen? Also - like the concrete floors and considering for new home we will be building - what are your thoughts on them - love them? hate them? The cat in your bed drawer is absolutely adorable. I have 1 cat (1dog & 3 kids) that only likes to rest on clean folded laundry. Would also be interested in seeing your litter room.

@emilyryz - I agree, though I think it's like other aspects of training your pets in that you can only catch them while you're home. As soon as you leave, the cats are going to be all over the furniture anyway. The best thing to do is diligently wipe off the countertops every day when you get home, try your very best to train them not to jump on them while you are home, and understand that they'll most likely be all over them after you've left.

just curious to see the wonderful DIY space for the cat litter... after the big talk in the post.

The architecture drawers are reminiscent of the Brady Bunch. Like The Brady Bunch and Jetsons collided. I dont think Rosie liked cats. I simply love it!

Love all the cats!! I have 2, and wish I had 8.

Boy ya'll, I just couldn't understand why y'all kept asking about the litter room until I just realized that I had, in fact, left them out! Totally remedied. You'll find two photos of that cute DIY at the end of the gallery now! Apologies for that.

@JasonLoper -- thanks for fixing the links! Definitely a fabulous home -- thank you for sharing, @lheck! I'd love to see the litterbox room, too. I have four cats, and I keep their boxes in the "cat cave" -- a third bedroom in my house. (Yeah, I have too much space for one person, but it's great for four cats and one person!) I have the boxes placed as far from the bedroom door as possible, and the scattered litter has (so far) stayed in the cat cave. (Constantly sweeping up one room isn't nearly as bad as constantly sweeping/vacuuming up an entire house!) Your cats look lovely and happy -- congrats! :)

purrrrrrrrfect house for cats and humans

I love it. Love the modern clean sense of it all, the green and the natural elements of the pine table, the rooftop furniture - LOVE - combined with the heirloom pieces as well. It makes for a warm, clean, fresh atmosphere with depth and history. And the cats? Well. Let me say that it is awesome you provided them with such gorgeous and varied textures and "flavors" of places to lay for coolness (glass, counters, the pine table, the concrete floors) and for comfort - the lush bedding. How adorable. Cats are like living sculpture, breathing art, and their personalities bring a sense of animal mini-majesty to a place. You are graced indeed. :-) I DO WANT lol Isn't it great to have a furry family? I have two of my own. They rule our one bedroom apartment, and I WANT to get rid of the carpeting, but alas. Not my choice. And like others, the first thing I thought was "Where are the litter boxes?!"
About how it isn't exactly sanitary to "allow" them on the counters; I don't eat or prepare food on the counters directly. I wipe them down, and use cutting boards.I lay my prep-ware on paper towels while cooking. I will occasionally scold them if caught (rare), but cats are the Alphas, and they will mostly do as they please. They are independent, and clever enough to know that when you aren't around, all bets are called off. At least, by them. I love their sweet natures. Congratulations on having a beautiful, loving home you two! Or rather, you ten! <3

I LOVE the kitchen/dining room table. The warm, natural tones and lines of the wood slab play brilliantly off of the concrete floors. I love just how warm this home feels. With the floors and so much black, white and gray, the wood tones and natural elements through out the home are so inviting. This is the best house tour I've seen in a while! Well done.

Are we missing out on some cats? I think the photos only show six...

Your house is nice (lovely) but I need the rest of the cats.

I love that the cats have artwork in their "bathroom". So cute. I'm curious if the cats just wandered into shots or if they were purposely placed in the shots. If it was spontaneous, they're very social!

@vix vax I assure you that none of the kitties were posed! Well we might have placed one on the bed to get the biggest group shot we could, but most of them were just doing their adorable thing as I shot the space!

Um...I hope nobody's offended that I suggest sending the black-and-white cat's mug shot to www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com? You have a winning Kitler! Great tour, lovely couple.

This looks like a fun place to live! Your dining table is beautiful, and wow- everybody gets a personal litter box...what an ideal environment you've created for your cats. I love seeing well cared for animals. Bravo!

I LOVE this outdoor furniture, and have been looking for a long time for something with this great combination of modern and classic--does anyone know where it's from?

@alexisfromtexas - of all places, we found those feeding towers at Petco. While moderncat.net features lots of yummy modern cat things, apparently most people don't need towers like we do :)

petco link: http://tinyurl.com/7d6q4s2

@tenbar
the source for the "angel cat" art was a friend of mine who patiently pealed it off of a dumpster near South Congress. It's from a street artist that has posted these all around Austin.

Love the open modern style mixed with antiques and the cat culture.

:D

Absolutely beautiful. Way way way way way too much cat love for me.

Yayyy, Adrienne! Thank you for the repost on the photos! I've been checking back to this post to see if anything came up...