Pet-Friendly Interior Design
Pet-owners are going beyond decorative elements, such as hidden kitty litters and fancy pet doors, in their quest for a pet-friendly home. Check out the “dog overlook” on the right and the “Doggy Detox” below.
Chris Rudolph, a Chicago architect, built his home to include these elements specifically to accommodate his pet Labradors. The dog overlook lets the dogs know “where their humans are without running all over the place”. The Doggy Detox is a tiled shower with a hand-held showerhead and storage spots for doggy towels and shampoos. It is where the beloved pets get clean after a trip outside.
Rudolph - like many of the millions of pet owners in the U.S. who spent $36 billion on their four-legged friends in 2005, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association - has become part of the growing American trend of creating a home with sensitivity toward pets’ housekeeping and style needs.
Other adjustments homeowners make for their pets include using easy-to-wash slipcovers, replacing carpeting with wood floors, and installing ramps for aging or infirm pets.
Read more at the Pueblo Chieftain.
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1 opinion for Pet-Friendly Interior Design
R & M Johnston
Jul 9, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Your blog is an excellent interior design resource for people who love their pets like us :) We are a young couple trying our best to build a small sustainable, green and eco-friendly home in the downtown core of oil city Calgary, Canada. We are also blogging our way through the whole experience! It may be an eco-friendly home, but we want it to look the best that it can.
We are now at the stage where we have to start thinking about interior design choices. This includes our own research looking through stacks of decorators catalog and talking to interior design professionals in calgary. Your site has definitely given us some helpful advice. Please stop by and take a peek at http://www.ramsayhome.com.
-R & M Johnston
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