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Sensory Overload: Snuggly Pets On Cool Furniture
Desire To Inspire

What's cuter than your cute sofa? Your cute sofa beneath a cute puppy!...

An IKEA Home for Chickens
IKEA Hacker

In The New Yorker, Susan Orleans wrote about her experience raising chickens in upstate New York. Her article explained the raising popularity of chickens as pets, and mentioned this chicken coop ha...

DIY Dog Bed in an Art Deco Fireplace

Hi guys, I just wanted to share my dog's new bed I made last weekend — we have a disused fireplace in our living room and I thought it would be charming to make it into a doggy bed for our Shi...

Bird Bottle by Julie Rooney
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Aluminum, stainless steel, powdercoat Price Point: $142 "The Birdbottle is a modern update to the classic bird house of the colonial days. What once was a functional necessity in the col...

Look! Putting Up a Big Purple Martin House

One of my summer aspirations was to put up a birdhouse with Ursula. It was my latest dad and daughter project. We talked about it for weeks, did some research and then picked up a beautiful purple...

Caroline's In/Animate Collections
House Tour

Name: Caroline Location: Upper West Side, NYC Size: 1,500 square feet Years lived in: 21 years Trying to sum up Caroline’s home in a few short paragraphs is akin to putting on a straightjacket b...

How To: Create an Aviary from an Armoire

We have plenty of projects for dogs, cats, and even for bunnies, but finally here's one for the birds — an aviary created by using a old tv storage armoire!...

Modern Barn: Sheep Stable by 70F Architecture
ArchDaily

It's not often that you see a modern barn — this petting zoo in the Netherlands was built upon the foundation of a barn that burnt down. Located in a public park in Almere, the new petting zoo...

Cat Ladders & Stairs Around The World

I am not a cat person, but I found this blog that collects images of cat ladders fascinating. Simply and accurately described as "A picture gallery and a tribute to all the fantastic cat-ladders of ...

How To: Build a Modern Rabbit Hutch
design*sponge

This is a thorough and informative Do It Yourself project — design*sponge reader Nicole shares her instructions for turning an IKEA BESTA unit into a modern (and very attractive) rabbit hutch ...

Entryway Bench or... Kitty Litter Box!

Those Ikea hackers are a clever bunch who frequently use their hacking talents to improving the state of commercial litter boxes. We've long admired the Kattbank, that lovely litter box bench with t...

Look! Kitty-Shaped Cabinet Cutout

After all of the positive response to Katie's DIY No Mess Litter Boxes, we were inspired to find new ways to enclose kitty's litter box. The cat silhouette is a cabinet door cutout that admits your ...

Cat Cloud Cat Shelf

click thumbnails for larger pics Though many readers will prefer the DIY version of these Cat Stairs, we felt this Cat Cloud Shelf was a nice alternative to those who don't want to DIY... ...

Well-Designed Dog Furnishings & Accessories
The New York Times 1.29.09

The New York Times shops with Carleton Varney — the president and owner of the Manhattan interior design firm Dorothy Draper & Company — for this week's Shopping With feature. The mission?...

From The Kitchn: Eat Slow Bowl from Greedy Pup

We don't usually talk much about our pets at The Kitchn. But since it is Eating Light month, we couldn't pass up this bowl designed to help our canine friends lighten up and eat a little slower. &bu...

AT on Getting Your House in Order

While the daily financial news couldn't be more dramatic (is someone writing this stuff?), and here in NYC there is a palpable sense of disbelief in the air, I have no doubt that the fall out from t...

Aqua Design Amano: Aquarium Designer Takashi Amano

We received a tip from a reader to make sure we look at the aquarium designs of Takashi Amano before Pet Month ends — and we're glad we did! Using live plants and natural elements, Takashi Ama...

French 18th-Century Reproduction Dog Beds
Toulouse

Prestige Houses is a Toulouse-based company that makes historic reproduction dog (and cat) beds based on designs from the over-the-top days when Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI were running Versailles....

Good Questions: How Do You Store Pet Food?

It's pet month and I have a pet-inspired question: is there a pretty and practical way to store 6kg of chow? How about snacks and treats? I'd like to see some ideas how to have dog treats accessible b...

My Design's Dreamy!: Patricia's Climbing Pole

This is from our 2006 Pet Design Contest - All Other Entries are Here Design: The Climbing Pole Price: $40 Name: Patricia Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn Pet's Name: Cassidy and Jr. Cat Size & Type: ...

Kitty Washroom

Feline Furniture. We see a lot of Good Questions concerning cats and the art of disguising their litter boxes. While we've seen a number of solutions, including some good D.I.Y options, we're diggin...

Hot or Not?: Crazy Fish Tank Water Jug fountain

Even More Fish: Crazy fish tank water jug fountain...

September is Pet Design Month!

Gold Thread Pet Mattress for $3000 Oh yes it is. We've got only two weeks to go, blogging pet design for the home, and then we're into our 3rd Annual Fall Colors Contest (look out for our contest pa...

Best of Three: Homes with Pets

Liz's Herald Square Apartment with Go Go Cat and Koo Koo Kitty "3 cats, a turtle and a lizard - Yay pet month!" So say's Hollie in today's survey of what pets readers have at home. While Hollie defi...

AT Offline: The Pet Design Meetup 9.4.08
Dara Foster, Jed Crystal, Julia Szabo, Bill Hildendorf & Maria Rueda, Vanessa von Hessert

• What: AT Offline Design Meetup (info and signup here) • Members: 718 Last Thursday we hosted our 15th meetup and our first one solely on pet design. The crowd and the speakers were int...

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