Cat – an animal who prefers to carry out the most part of the life lying. Considering this feature of pets, the retail chain stores offer a set of models of comfortable stove benches. But to the owner quite not less convenient bed for the favourite can make with own hands.
How to make the simplest stove bench for a cat
It is the simplest to build a stove bench in a box or an old suitcase. Sides of capacity will limit space and will make it cozier. Such stove bench is made in the form of a matrasik with soft filler. That to sew it, the material considering features of cats is required: they like to sharpen the claws and leave a lot of wool on a bed. Therefore fabric has to be rather dense, but not fleecy. Best of all sateen, crepe, a dense thick woolen cloth without pile will approach. As filler it is possible to use granules from expanded polystyrene, the sintepon cut on small pieces foam rubber.
The beginning of work – removal of measures. By means of a centimetric tape measure width and length of a box and cut out two cloths taking into account allowances for seams (0.5-0.8 cm) and heights of a matrasik (3-5 cm). Cloths are completely sewed from three parties, in the fourth leave an aperture for filler laying. After stuffing the tear is sewn up manually. If foam rubber or sintepon was used, the stove bench can be stitched in several places so that convex figures turned out: rhombuses, squares, circles. It considerably will decorate a product.
How to make a stove bench lodge
The stove bench lodge requires the sketch on which the desirable sizes are specified. The pattern is done so: calculate lodge face perimeter: the starting and finishing point – a roof ridge. This figure will correspond to cloth length. Its width – the desirable length of a lodge. Cut out a cloth of the found size taking into account allowances for seams. The second cloth has to be the bigger size: in it stove bench thickness is considered. To the first pattern add the doubled necessary size (bed thickness), an allowance for seams and cut out the second detail. Cloths are sewed, pristrachivy to each other from three parties. The long sack has to turn out. It is turned out on the face and note on it location of walls of a lodge. In an interval between them stack filler and sew it. A soft convenient floor – directly bed for the pet will turn out. Then start the device of walls of a lodge. For this purpose on both sides from a floor put dense cardboard and filler. Sew these materials. Similarly do the second wall. For a roof it is possible not to use foam rubber (sintepon), there will be enough cardboard. The opposite sides of a stove bench are sewed. They have to form a roof ridge. It is possible to leave a lodge through or to make for it a back wall.