Mid Mod-ing the Cats

One of the difficulties of moving to a mid century modern home was that none of our furniture matched. So we got rid of most of it and started fresh. But the cats needed their cat condos so we brought those along. We have 3 cats - Annie the calico, Benny the terrorist, and Sunshine pictured below, who adopted us because our former neighbor did not take care of her. So she came along with us to Napa and, as you can tell, she is loving it here. We haven't been able to completely keep her inside (she was left out 24/7) but she comes in at night.

I equate the carpet covered cat condos to Frasier's dads chair - they're tacky looking, but oh so comfy.

Our calico, Annie, lounges in this thing all day. What cat wouldn't - with all the windows, she can gaze at birds all day! At least she isn't on the furniture....

I could sleep all day in this thing!

I started to look for a more modern looking cat condo and found a website called Modern Cat! This German design caught my eye.

But not the pricetag $2000 and up - yikes!
So we asked Jeff, the Eichler Siding guy, if he could design one like it. And this is what he came up with:

 

 Of course the big question was, would the cats like it? I stuck different pieces of fun fur on it and waited to see what would happen.

 Obviously Benny loves it! It is still unpainted and we have been trying to decide on colors. Should I go bright art piece? Or blend into the room? Either way, we love it!!

Annie may be a tougher sell. She loves that ugly, ratty cat condo!

Sigh.