My family and I recently moved back into our house after being overseas for 8 years. As it turns out, our renter had been very welcoming to all of the neighborhood cats and our backyard has become a bit of a cat vacation spot. We love cats, however our youngest seems to be allergic. We wanted to make sure when the cats visit (or get locked out) they have a warm place to relax, especially in Winter (We live in Ontario, Canada and it can get cold....)

I took this opportunity to also teach some of the local kids some basic building skills, cat care, and the responsibility of owning a cat. I also decided to use only basis tools (as the kids were around). I had a look through Instructables and the web and found a couple of projects that I believe I have improved upon, but please let me know if there are improvements to be made to my version. Thanks to feiheck (cat house), pdjinc.com (cat house), MacGyver9 (cat condo) and mazzupappa (cat shelter) for the inspiration

The other bonus of this build is that 90% of the materials I had laying around from our recent renovation work which meant this project was very affordable.