The Best of My Houzz: 50 Design-Loving Pets

Each week homeowners around the world open their doors to our contributing photographers, who profile their creative homes. While we love peeking at their interiors and hearing about their design decisions, their pets are just as much of a visual treat. Meet some of our favorite pugs, ponies and other animal friends who’ve made a stylish appearance in our My Houzz series.

Clara the parrot is free to fly around this artistic, furniture-hack-filled home in Israel.

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Charles the cat made the big move from Manhattan to Maui and seems to be adjusting to the laid-back Hawaiian lifestyle just fine.

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Ty the Chihuahua sits at his post on a chesterfield sofa, wearing a gentlemanly sweater.

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English bulldog Tater Tot is serious about having fun in this playful, candy-colored apartment in Manhattan. He’s sitting on a red chaise that anchors his owner’s library corner. Behind him the walls are decorated with a DIY wine cork project, a deconstructed Scooby-Doo lunchbox and a poster from a 1984 show of Jonathan Borofsky’s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Finley the cat is perched ever so elegantly on one of his favorite spots in a colorful home in Dallas.

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Bailey the Yorkie guards her owner’s favorite leather armchair. This home in Buford, Georgia, is decorated in a French country style with antique finds and small treasures.

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Mr. Martin feels right at home between art and design books. Book club, anyone?

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Luna the dog looks right at home in a corner nook in a West Asheville, North Carolina, home decorated with vintage frames displaying meaningful family keepsakes.

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How could you resist a gentle tablecloth tug from this sweet kitten named Delilah? The mint-green chair was painted by her very creative owner, Kristin Nicholas.

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Australian shepherds Oscar and Penny are just begging for someone to join them on this leather chaise. This is their owner’s creative space, housing a collection of inspirational items, books and a large easel for painting. The Chevrolet truck tailgate is a consignment find.

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Lakota, an Alaskan Malamute mix, is a happy camper in front of a wooden console displaying travel mementos.

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Mae the cat looks rather content in the master bedroom of this Austin, Texas, home. Behind her is a gallery wall of postcards by Yoshitomo Nara.

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Rocky and Sara Garza’s goldendoodle, Samson, strikes a pose in front of a Native American portrait that Sara’s grandmother painted.

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Merlin the Great Dane is no stranger to vintage style. He’s lounging on an old army cot on a patio in Tampa, Florida.

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Diego is thrilled to be lounging in a midcentury armchair and seems unimpressed by the grazing buffalo that looks on.

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This cat lolls against an aggregate walkway in Washington, absorbing its heat. “I can’t even remember the cats’ names,” says homeowner Cari Horning. “It’s just how it is. They’re farm cats. Mousers. They don’t come inside.”

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Fourteen acres in upstate New York give miniature horse Kokomo plenty of room for roaming. He’s joined by a barn full of other animals — six horses, four goats, five donkeys, nine cows, two barn cats, one house cat, two dogs, two parakeets, fish and ducks. Sometimes Kokomo’s owners will hitch on a small saddle so their granddaughter can ride him.

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Pumpkin the pygmy goat has been the pet of New Yorkers Jen and Dick Lanne for a long time. Jen describes her as “a sweet yet naughty creature that loves to get into everything!”

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Henry the dachshund is ready to take a ride down a slide to meet his owners on a family farm in Australia.

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Inez, Friendly, Big Red, Struggles and Eden are five hens that get to enjoy personalized nesting boxes and have plenty of surfaces on which to roam. The canvas sail above provides protection from the sun.

“My husband and I will go out and have a glass of wine in the coop from time to time,” says Michelle Pettigrew of Hillsborough, California. “We call it chicken therapy.”

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Australian border collie Sassy escapes the heat on York stone paving in the shade of a veranda. This pup is lucky to enjoy 70 acres of lush grazing land in the picturesque town of Sutton Forest, halfway between Sydney and Canberra in Australia.


Sassy is joined by Andrew, the resident peacock, who strolls the 70-acre property in all his splendor.

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Sherman the beagle relaxes on his owner’s bed in Austin, Texas, under a 1920s framed image that once hung in the home of the great-grandmother of one of the owners.

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Sophia the kitten takes in all the details of her surroundings, including an old carpenter’s table–turned–coffee table.

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Munchie is a rescue dog and is happy to share this screened-in porch, which doubles as a play area for a Dallas couple’s daughter, Goldie.

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Elvis, a dalmation mix, enjoys the design and color in this New Orleans Victorian.


Penny the cat listens in on family storytime taking place on a DIY banquette.

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This cat enjoys napping on a 19th-century spool bench in an upstairs loft-like space with vaulted ceilings and skylights.

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Lulu, a curly-haired dog, hangs out in the entry area of her Santa Cruz, California, home. She’s lying next to a painting of Enid Brock’s great-grandmother.

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Gypsy finds this built-in banquette a relaxing place from which to view neighboring houseboats in the San Francisco Bay.

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Kasey the Yorkshire terrier doesn’t seem to realize how lucky he is to run around in this Cape Cod, Massachusetts, beach house. Slim steel support beams encased in coffered ceiling moldings replaced the original home’s much larger wooden beams.


Beagle–Boston terrier mix Lucy lounges on a sectional that divides an open-plan living room. Behind Lucy hangs a “214” sign representing his owners’ wedding anniversary (Valentine’s Day) as well as a Dallas area code.

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Pugs Theo and Sydney blend right in with this neutral sofa and armchair on a lazy afternoon. Their guardian, Katie Gagnon, says, “All of my furniture is the color of my pugs, because they shed.”

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Aubrey and Kale Butcher’s curious beagle, Oliver, lounges on a neutral-colored sectional. Behind him are original built-in shelves with their backs painted to let the couple’s collection of vintage books and travel mementos stand out.

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Judas the cat adds a minimalist silhouette to jewelry and textile designer Caitlin Mociun’s eclectic apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The apartment was once a bar in the Brooklyn Navy Yard before it was gutted and converted into housing. High ceilings, painted brick, big windows and natural light mark the open and airy space.


Ginger the Yorkie relaxes on a convertible sofa bed under a gallery of dog silhouettes.

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Eager to pose for every picture, Burton blends in perfectly with the white and beachy interior of this California home.

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Thatcher leisurely strolls around his French country–style home in Dallas, which brims with flea market treasures, like these dining room chairs.

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Milo, a 13-year-old pug, poses unimpressed in front of a living room’s custom reclaimed-wood bookcases in a Pittsburgh home.

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DIY style suits Earl, a Bichon-terrier mix, who has claimed the couch in a Salt Lake City home described as a “sort of mutt.”

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Small dog, big space — Chihuahua Begonia is seen perched on her favorite couch in a San Francisco loft.

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Chocolate Lab Chico loves hanging out in this furniture retail shop attached to a family’s home in Australia.

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Candy the cat has lived in her Pittsburgh semicircular-shaped home since 1995 and was adopted by Bob Moore and Scott Wise after the death of Edith “Ditta” Lipkind, one of their home’s original owners.

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These Rhode Island Reds and Araucanas are hardy chickens that get to enjoy 7 sprawling acres in New Mansfield, Texas. They’re also a big help to their owners, Mary and Eddie Phillips. As the homeowners’ edible gardens progressed, hungry grasshoppers took a toll on the plants. “We didn’t want to use chemicals,” Mary says, “so predatory birds seemed like the best idea. What can be better than turning grasshoppers into eggs?”

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A family in Bennington, Vermont, shares their 100-acre property with numerous pets, including their Great Pyrenees, Sophie, and their Newfoundland, Grace.

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This adorable pig is in the company of many friends on a family’s 9-acre property in Horton, Alabama, including three horses, a donkey, five chickens, two dogs and two cats.

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Pictured here are three of five chickens belonging to Trey and Brianne Denton. The chickens roam freely around the couple’s yard in Dallas. “They help with bug control and ground fertilization,” says Trey.

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Mrs. Beeton and Mrs. Thatcher are two rescued pigs who live in rural Australia. They are in the company of an eclectic collection of animals: a former thoroughbred racehorse, Moose; two rescued steers, Helmet and Wilhelm; a rescued cat, Hildegard; and too many chickens and geese and runner ducks to mention by name.

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Energetic and curious, Ooghna, a Bernese mountain dog, obediently sits in front of a large pile of firewood in the yard of a rustic-style New Hampshire home.

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