So, my girlfriend has just moved to town (Which is among the reasons that I've failed to keep to anything like a regular posting schedule), and she has a cat.

Her cat, being of a certain age, and being, well, a cat, is not expected to have an easy time adjusting. So, as any caring cat-owner would, my girlfriend means to bribe the cat into being happy.

More specifically, we figure that if we made her a nice cat condo (they call them that because "cathouse" was already taken), it would ease her transition to the new environment.

So we had a looksee and found that those tiny little carpeted pedestals are actually surprisingly expensive. And, as my beloved is really rather fond of her cat, she wanted to furnish her with something extravagant -- and we tok a look, and whatever the prices were, they weren't even willing to display them on the floor models for fear of scaring off the customers.

Well, it occurred to me that I could almost certainly build one of these for a fraction of the cost. So I fired up Poser (Blender or Visio would have been closer to the right tool for the job, but I've hardly ever used Visio, and Blender's UI seems to have been designed by a blind autistic Nazi) and came up with a design.

This rendering is not quite the final design, but it's pretty close. Construction s underway, and I'll have an itemized material and cost list as soon as I can find one.

In the mean time, I give you: Catopia