Creating a great pet nook with custom cabinets not only gives your best furry friend a place of their own, but keeps all their supplies neatly organized.

From keeping food out of sight to making leashes easier to grab, a pet nook can be completely customized to your pet’s needs. You can even transform pet crates to look far more sophisticated.

Pet nooks don’t have to be large. The great news is custom cabinets fit into both small and large spaces, so you’re free to design based on what fits your space.

Consider Pairing With The Mud Room

A great place to add your pet nook with custom cabinets is the mud room. You likely already have cabinets built in to your mud room to help organize shoes, sporting equipment, coats and more. Adding a nook for your pet’s bed and a pull out drawer in a bench for pet food and supplies easily transforms your mud room into a partial pet nook too.

If you have the space, you might add an entire new section to the mud room. This could include custom cabinets with organizational features for your pet supplies. It could also include bedding and even a litter box for kitties.

If you don’t have a mud room or don’t want to change anything up, you can also add your pet nook to your laundry room, bathroom or use that small space under the stairs or other small spaces.

Hide Away Food And Water

Hate the idea of food and water spilling all over your floors? Maybe you have a baby or small child that thinks kibble is for them instead of the dog. Either way, create a pet nook with custom cabinets that hides the food and water while your pet doesn’t need it.

A pull out drawer with a food and water bowl keeps things clean and tidy. You can even have a section that keeps the food and water bowl from spilling into the drawer itself. This prevents the water from hurting the wood. Simply pull out the section, clean it out and put it back. Then, have a cabinet containing a pull out bin of food with a scoop. You can even include one with treats.

Transform Crates

Crates are often a necessity for some pets. From helping them feel safe during a thunderstorm to preventing them from tearing things up when you’re not at home, pet crates are useful. But, they look terrible. Instead, create a pet nook with custom cabinets that transform the crates.

For instance, Havenly has a list of great ideas including one that makes the crate look like a kitchen cabinet with drawers. This gives you space for supplies and the doors (which are just frames for the crate door) open to allow easy access in and out. It’s cute and simple.

Turn Cabinets Into Play Areas

The custom cabinets in your pet nook don’t have to be just for storage. Transform the nook into a play area as well. This works great for smaller pets, such as cats. For example, you might have tiered cabinets that work as steps to reach a window to look out. Or, add sharpening featured to make it easy to climb and jump between cabinets and shelves.

For dogs, you could have gates that pull out from under the cabinets. Or, have doors that connect together when open to create a gated play area for your puppy. Those cabinets could contain favorite toys for the puppy to pull out and play with.

Create Pet Nook Furniture

Thanks to creating a pet nook with custom cabinets, the nook doesn’t just have to be for your pet. For instance, turn your nightstand into both a place for your lamp and a pet bed. You can create built-in living room cabinets that add a pull-out pet bed or shelves for kitties to sleep.

Even a desk or craft area can double as a pet nook with some custom cabinets to aid with storage and give your pet a safe, comfortable place to relax.

Ready to create a pet nook with custom cabinets for your pet? Contact us today to discuss your ideas.

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Have you ever wished that you’d have a place for pets where they could eat their food in a more private area and without a feeding dish that might get lost?

A lot of our pets prefer to eat their food without being out in the open (especially cats), and dogs can sometimes make a mess when having to eat out of a regular bowl. Particularly with a hungry dog, they may knock the dish around, requiring you to clean up dog (or human) food off the floor.

A popular new trend is pet feeding stations that can be incorporated directly into kitchen cabinetry. It’s a specialized project we can do for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry. But because this is a very customized type of project, we’ll work closely with you to see how you want it designed. With our expertise in cabinetry, incorporating a pet feeding station can also be designed to accommodate the assumed preferences of your own pet.

Incorporating Feeding Dishes into the Cabinet Base

We’ve had clients who enjoy having a pullout base on a kitchen cabinet with built-in feeding bowls. This can eliminate the problem of the feeding bowls tipping over and causing spills while your dog or cat tears into their food. And with a surface around it that’s easily cleanable, you don’t have to worry about the food getting on the floor or leaving stains elsewhere. With the ability to pull the base in or out as an option, you can also control how much your pet eats in a day if you leave food in the dish all the time.

Keep in mind these built-in feeding dishes can be on a cabinet containing plenty of shelf space for your own things. It can even be built in to the side of a kitchen island if you so choose.

Feeding Stations Under Cabinetry

Some pets refuse to eat unless they can have some privacy. If you’ve noticed your pet is that way, why not incorporate a pet feeding station under cabinetry or shelving in your kitchen? We can design shelving or cabinetry with a niche space underneath that allows your pet to go in and eat without being disturbed. At the same time, you have cabinet and shelving space above the station so you can easily gain access to kitchen supplies without disturbing your pets while they eat.

Variations on the Feeding Stations

We can design those built-in feeding dishes so it’s adjustable to the height of your dog, cat, or other pet. There isn’t any set height, and you don’t want your dog or cat to have to be uncomfortable trying to eat out of their bowls. It can even be designed to be adjusted gradually as your dog goes from a puppy to an adult.

Even more enclosed areas can be designed with a little door if your pet wants complete privacy as you work in your kitchen. Very few pets enjoy us watching them eat, just like most of us don’t either. So let us incorporate a little peace of mind for your pet while designing new cabinetry for your kitchen or other room in your home.

Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can work with you on designing a pet feeding station that works the best for you and your pet. Kitchens should always be a fun place where your family congregates, and making your pet comfortable there is just as important as thinking of yourself.

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