I’m just a horrible person. I forgot to put up these pictures of the cat stairs I made for Princess last month!
Try to ignore the popcorn ceiling… that’s what I do, anyway.
The materials used were one 2×2 sheet of particleboard, 5 white metal shelf brackets, 15 drywall screws, 10 short wood screws, white shelf paper, and Elmer’s glue.
I had the lovely people at the hardware store trim the sheet of particleboard into one long piece and three smaller ’steps’. If I did this project again, however, I would not use particleboard, simply because it is a pain to cover and real wood would have been nicer to look at. I was originally worried about the weight of wood boards, but now I’m pretty sure the brackets could hold it.
I purchased enough shelf brackets to support Princess’ weight and not tear a huge hole in the wall. I originally wanted floating shelves, but she is over 15 lbs. and I just didn’t want to risk it. These brackets were also extremely inexpensive, and I barely notice them. The lovely brushed nickel brackets only held 5 lbs. each and were $15 apiece.
I originally had planned to make them lower, but Bax would have antagonized Princess to no end defeating the purpose of the stairs.
Princess now LOVES her little private balcony, and takes her dinner up there, where she can dramatically push her food dish over the edge to signify that she is starving to death and wasting away to nothing. She and Bax also play tag a lot, during which she likes to cheat and run to the top of these :)
