apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Is that a computer tower there to the right? If it is, a cat would particularly love a warm hideout like that.

LOVE IT!

I love this!

I love it, and so would my dogs! (two small dogs, each of them has a crate to sleep in my bedroom...I would love to have built-ins with a dog nook.)

The example shown is a bit too small for either of my dogs (enormous Papillon and slightly smaller Pomeranian/dachshund mix), but I bet, if I were planning built-ins, that I could figure out a way around it. I could put a linen cabinet above the dog nook, or a window seat.

Great idea except that the bed is directly in front of the dog door, which means going out isn't a problem, but coming back in, the flap will whack into the bed. Even if it does open sufficiently to let the dog back in, the dog now tracks whatever's on her paws on and in the bed. So, great idea; flawed in execution.

At the firm where I intern (Hart-Davidson Designs), we actually designed something similar to this for 2 HUGE dogs. What we did was have 2 huge cages with the lift up doors built-in underneath a countertop. There were doors on each side so the cages could be accessed from the front (which opens to the kitchen) and from the back (which opens into a mudroom)

The cages are open, only covered on top by the countertop/wall dividing the kitchen from the mudroom, and the walls on either side of them.

Adorable! Cavaliers rule.

I love the idea; if I get a dog in a few years (when I've moved to a place a bit bigger) I'd like to do something similar.

However, in this particular case, I do agree with lovemcm about the bed being in front of the flap. I'm also puzzled at what that other thing is in the right corner. It would be so much easier if that wasn't there and the dog bed would be in that corner. It'd leave the flap free.