Lenna from Toronto, Ontario got creative when she and her partner and their two cats downsized from 1400 sq. ft. to just 950. She needed a way to conceal the litter boxes without taking up valuable space. She hit the thrift stores and came home with two similar sized storage benches and set to work disguising them. Her dad helped by cutting openings in the end of each bench and finishing the edges with black electrical tape while Lenna and her mom covered the benches with this awesome black and white damask wallpaper and painted the trim black.
Lenna found just the right size plastic boxes for inside and placed black rubber bar mats
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While anyone who knows and is empathetic to feline needs will say an entry hall is NOT an appropriate place for a litterbox, as cats need quiet, calm and serene locations much as many humans do do “do their business”, these boxes are very attractive and creative, and would be wonderful in more private locations!
Thanks for your comment, but you will notice that a) the box entry is away from the front door, and b) it’s just my husband and I. In 3 years we have had visitors no more than a half dozen times, so that location has no more traffic than the rest of the apartment.
Hello Lenna,
Very nice and, you built this and made it yourself???
What a brilliant idea and beautiful! I love that the Kitties have enough room to move around in the bench and aren’t in a tiny little covered box like some of us have.
Thank goodness you had some help with cutting of the box and decorating it.
Fantastic idea and looks fabulous!!!
Ingenious and creative solution.
I have been using wooden box covers similar to this for many years. I have one added suggestion if anyone tries to do this for themselves. Wood really loves to absorb cat box odors, and if you leave the inside of the box uncovered, you will end up throwing it out within a year due to the odor that it absorbs. To solve this, either line the inside with a stiff plastic (look at hobby stores), or paint it with Spar Urethane (Minwax Helmsman can be found at most hardware stores). You can spray these surfaces down with cleaner when you do your periodic maintenance to the box.