Painted Cat Door DIY

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Lucy our little kitten found our way into our hearts this past Easter. Aliceana asked for a cat for Easter, and we said, “No, absolutely not. You already have a dog and a cat.” Then Lucy showed up in our driveway the Thursday before Easter and now Aliceana has a playful companion at her side 24 hours a day, even when she’s sleeping. Princess was rescued too, she was going to go back to the Humane Society and instead we took her in and couldn’t imagine our mornings without her constant sassiness. Princess is the one modeling in the above picture, and yes she can get through the cat door no problem, she looks huge, but it’s mostly lots and lots of fluffy fur.

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We love Rachael Ray’s Nutrish dog treats and wet cat food, we had to give Trio some treats too. Afterall the cat door is mostly to keep him out of the cats’ areas. I love that whether intended for dogs or cats, Nutrish recipes are made with simple, wholesome ingredients like real meat or fish, and do not contain poultry by-product meal or fillers.

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This week we got to work on a project just for our rescued cats. We wanted to move their spaces for food and litter boxes to the basement but didn’t want to accidentally lock them in or out, so we decided a cat door would be our best route.

After researching cat doors and sizing out our cats we chose a simple door, all you really have to do is use a jigsaw to cut out the template and screw in the pieces, but I took it a few steps further to make it a lot cuter.

First off, we cut out the hole for the cat door then sanded, primed and painted our door a nice purple color.

Then I painted a colorful house design on the door using some simple acrylic paints. I made a rectangle shape for a house shape, another pink rectangle, and a pink triangle. Then I painted a fish on the triangle “roof” of the house. I outlined the whole design with an acrylic paint marker and lettered the word “meow” on top. I decided going in that it would look better more cartoony, so I wouldn’t stress over straight lines over the molding, and I like the effect.

It was just a couple extra steps and it makes it look so much more inviting than your standard white cat door.

The cats loved it. I sat on the other side of the door coaxing them to come through for the first time, it took daring Lucy 2 minutes before she was through, Princess took 6 full minutes of convincing. Now they go in and out like it’s a fun house, they love being able to explore all three levels of our house now. Lucy likes to zoom in and out, and she doesn’t model for pictures as nicely.

 

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Are any of your pets rescues? Tell me about them in the comments below!