Cat Room Ideas for Small Apartments

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A cat room in a small apartment is rarely a whole room. It is a corner, a window, a closet or a strip of wall handed over to the cat on purpose, so the rest of the home stops being an obstacle course.

Start with cat room ideas for a small apartment if you are planning a spare room or corner from scratch, or cat corner ideas for the living room if the cat shares your main room. When the space has to look like your home rather than a pet store, cat room decor ideas covers colors, materials and furniture that pass both tests, and cat closet ideas turns dead storage space into a hideaway. Everything here is sized for renters: measured in inches, and no-drill wherever there is a choice.

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