I haven't been around much the past 2 weeks as we've had our last move this year (6 in total including Holland due to my partners work) to settle in Bristol.

Our house has a dining room we don't need with hard floors and a cat flap so we've turned it into our animal room. I thought you guys might like to see our "Building Bella's doggy wardrobe project" and our renovated 6 foot tall cat castle .

It's 30 days now till we can go to Holland to collect Bella, so I'm REALLY enjoying preparing things for her!





Photo 1

We started off with a bedside table from IKEA.

We chose white as it looks like a childs mini wardrobe

We thought this would be a practical way to store her clothes for the cold weather, etc.





Photo 2

We inserted a hanging rail for her clothes and harness tops.

The actual coat hangers has to be made to 4.5 inches as baby/child hangers were 8 inches and too big.

The coat hangers were made from a long piece of wood (a dowel) cut down, an inch piece added to the top, then one of the small hooks screwed in to hang it up.





Photo 3

The finished doggy wardrobe has hooks on the doors for her collars/clickers etc.

There is also the top shelf for her brushes/leads.





Photo 4

The finished doggy wardrobe will be in the animal room, which was the dining room in our house but as it has hard floors and backs onto the garden we've made it the cat/dog room . The cat flap was originally a flap for a spaniel so the cats can use it but we seriously doubt Bella can get anywhere near it, if she can and we don't want her to use it we'll just fence a little area off for the cats access.





The cat castle , 6 feet tall!


The photos are all also on my flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/arietistar/


Any suggestions for more things i could add to our dog/cat animals room would be great!

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i love the idea you came up with for the hangers! im gonna make some, u should seriously try selling them on ebay!

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They needed quite a bit of filing to make the edges smooth . I was so surprised that i couldn't find tiny pet hangers on ebay.

Even these ones were 8.5 inches wide and Bellas tiny!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12-pks-blue-Cl...item5d296e4cff

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That is amazing!!! Great idea, I will have to borrow it!!! Great job!!

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I think Bella will need a couple of nice soft beds to sunbath in. It looks like the room has great windows. I'm sure the animals will love that room.

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A big thank you to the very talented Terri for my new siggy. They look great in purple.

It's very clever! I love the idea and you did such a fantastic job of putting it
all together. You could possibly add a monogram on the front of the door
or maybe her initial and a crown. LOL!

So glad the day is getting closer when you will be reunited

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definitely, two of her beds are with her in Holland. I'm going to be either covering them in a etro polka dot material theme or a cream fleecey theme to match the colours of the room

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The idea of creating a stencilled monogram is awesome! I was considering maybe some plaques with their names, also getting their best photos onto 3 small canvases for the wall you can't see which is blank .

Also getting her one of those rabbit type tubes to run through, soft and flexible.

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