Pet Perch is a place to come home to your favorite four-legged family member. It’s a place inside the front door for shoes, keys, and the favorite leash. The Pet Perch is comprised of a functional exterior and a soft, protected interior for dogs and cats alike. Soft edges of routed plywood are rounded for pet safety and create fun nooks and crannies for pets to rest, eat and wait for you to come home.
Contributor: Abilene Millwork & Fine Cabinetry
Every family is unique – some have dogs, some have cats, and others have both. The Graft House explores the expression that happens when dogs and cats get along in one home. This house encourages the curiosity of the cate to explore the vertical maze of the floating platforms above as the dog remains close to the comfort of a bed below. As opposite as they may be, dogs and cats have a common place in the Graft House.
Contributor: Wood Haus Millwork
Having evolved from its decidedly prim and proper Victorian era origin as a “tea trolley” in the late-1800s, the Cocktail Cart is now seen as a glamorous vehicle to distribute celebratory libations in style. This design|build team took their obsession with mobile apertifs and married it with their love for four-legged friends, and voila: Bar(k)ART was born. This Cocktail Cart/Small Pet Bed hybrid features elegant proportions, a delicate yet sturdy welded steel frame with brass details, and lavishly exotic hardwoods. Bar(k)ART’s transitional design will roll right into any living room with a double-shot of cosmopolitan luxury.
Created to fit in with beachy resort-style furniture, The Salty Dog is designed to be your pet’s own staycation oasis that can seamlessly double as a piece of household decor for your home. The inspiration derived from the “dog days of summer at the beach” and the Salty Dog, a summertime cocktail that influenced the color palette chosen – grapefruit citrus tones mixed with green mint leaves. The organic, cocoon-like form provides the feeling of a protected enclave, while the cleanable exterior material is woven through the frame to allow more breathability. The top surface of the piece features a planter to add a touch of greenery for a holistic and natural design upgrade. So let your pet lay back, turn on the sound of crashing waves with a noise machine, bring them a refreshing bowl of water, and let them experience complete relaxation in this furniture piece designed for the dog with a touch of wanderlust.
During this time of social distancing, pets have maximized their time and attention with us by taking over our workspaces as their own. The “Best Friend Desk” takes on the challenges of working with attention-seeking, spatially-unaware, homebody pets by providing alternate lodgings and entrainment all the while functioning as a workspace for the work-from-home human. The streamlined, complementary curved desk inherently allows for multiple levels of lounging perches and places for playful interlocking with one another. Along with a see-through glass worktop, it permits everyone to be comfortably seen and engaged no matter the species. Thus creating and claiming, for both pet and hman, the “Best Friend Desk”.
Contributors: Alamo Glass; Creative Metal Solutions, LLC; East Texas Leather Outfit; Excel Steel; Lebeau Millwork
Side table. No, dog bed? Huh? Cat cave? The Double Take can serve both dogs and cats (if you’re lucky you’ll find both cuddling within) by thoughtfully containing essential amenities for your dog/cat in a side table. This carefully designed table, a concrete mass containing an articulable wooden form, hides a murphy-style fold-away bed – open up, your furry friend is nearby; closed, you’ve managed to store away their bed, freeing up whatever awkward corner it had previously been stored in. Even in its closed position, the wood form creates a tunnel/cave condition you’re likely to find your cat spying on you from…all this while being the most artful object in your home.
Contributor: Woodwright Hardwood Floor Company
Wanting to design an elegant piece that would work in any home size, the design integrates form and function, providing space for all of a cat’s needs – sleep, eat, play, scratch, and a concealed space to do its business. Solid and open elements allow cats to survey the room while also having space to hide. Two separate bedding elements, one a cotton cushion and another a thickly woven hammock, make the design friendly for multi-cate homes.
Looking for your next straycation destination? Visit Pro-Cat-Stination Station, the purrrfect getaway retreat for all your feline needs! Take a cat nap in a hammock on a hot Summer’s day or enjoy endless hours of hissterical entertainment with the chic scratch pad base. Finish your stay with a perch on the land pawd, a ‘Grin-n-Tonic’ in paw, for an elegant vista view of your own personal cat-topia. Escape the rat race and book your next getaway today at Pro-Cat-Stination Station.
Contributors: Waterjet Works; Regal Plastics
The Gardenview Paw-villion provides the feeling of being cocooned by a protective, sculptural canopy, like a favorite blanket draped over a dog’s crate. At the bottom, sliding panels allow for both privacy and customizable views in different directions. Designed from the dog’s perspective, this wooden pavilion is a relaxing shelter that also gives the dog the experience of being connected to his or her humans and surrounding garden activities. White oak wood related to natural comfort and is a resilient choice for the outdoors. The sliding panels simultaneously allow for natural air ventilation, while the full height entrance lets hot air escape.
Contributors: The Woodwork Shop in Fort Worth; Spinneybeck/FiltzFelt
Merging the traditional doghouse with flat pack construction, portaPUP is composed of 5 pieces of wood allowing for simple assembly without fasteners into a rigid, portable shelter. The panels are made of locally sourced cedar, lightweight for ease of travel/portability and resistance to moisture and sunlight, making it an ideal doghouse on the go. The flat pack design and structure allow for freedom of movement and can be assembled and disassembled in an instant. Intersecting areas of portaPUP create storage space while assembled. Strategic perforations and voids allow portaPUP to breathe while providing shade, creating a comfortable and tranquil space for all dogs seeking an escape from the Texas heat.
Contributor: Carpentry Associates