Houzz TV: Watch These Rescued Cats Make a House Their Playland

When Peter Cohen bought his house, it came with a couple of roaming outdoor cats. After tragedy befell one, and nearly the other, he began rescuing cats and bringing them inside his Goleta, California, home (near Santa Barbara). Before he knew it, he had well over a dozen indoor cats (the number is always fluctuating).

To keep them occupied, Cohen, a home builder, began designing and constructing elaborate catwalks, tunnels, platforms and perches throughout his house. So far he’s spent nearly $40,000, including for specially designed closets with exhaust fans to keep litter-box odors at bay. Meanwhile, five Roomba robot vacuum cleaners prowl the floors for cat hair. This is one house you’ve got to see to believe.

In the home office shown here, cats can climb up a rope-wrapped pole and either hop to adjacent platforms or descend a spiral walkway. “I thought maybe the cats would just look at it, but they use it all,” Cohen says. “It’s like a freeway sometimes with them all over the place.”


In the master bedroom, the cats can enter through a tunnel over the door and make their way up a couple of floating shelves to a loft area with cat beds beneath skylights.


Near the entrance to the home, which Cohen shares with his partner and his business partner, the cats have a wavy catwalk above the door. There’s also a pond full of koi fish to hold their attention. Don’t worry; Cohen says none of the cats have ever tried catching one.


Also in the home office, more floating shelves keep the cats off the workstation.

Watch the video, then read the full story: Incredible Home Catwalks Make for Purr-fectly Happy Felines

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