Does anyone else plan their decor around their pets?
I recently purchased some wonderful rattan furniture from Cobra Cane in Collingwood, Victoria. The furniture, was wonderfully solid, in hard to come by natural rattan and cane and suited my 1960's home, but had beige cushions.
I had been looking for some rattan furniture for my sun room for a number of years, as it so suits my plants and 60's bird's eye pine feature wall, which I love!
Another pet friendly prerequisite was the couch had to be at least a three-seater, long enough for me to stretch out on and laze with my beloved dog and cat. It passed that criteria with ease!
All I could think about those beige cushions was the disaster they would be with my whippet and black and white cat sharing them with me; I knew it would show every mark, from muddy paws, to blobs of black and white hair when the cat sheds, to marks from bones smuggled in from outside, when my very smart dog opens the door and sneaks a long buried one inside, only to gnaw away on it, on the furniture until caught out!
Ugh!
The old fabric suitably hid all such challenges posed by pets, successfully over nearly two decades!
I happily paid a little extra to have some groovy 60's green retro, pet friendly looking fabric slip covers made.
Hopefully, they too will not make the pitfalls of pet ownership too obvious either!
Now all of us are enjoying our new furniture!
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5 years agoGlorious saga of your cat, the furniture and the renovation Lupton Interior Design. Furniture soiling in those circumstances is payback for such feline inconvenience, the best way she could! Our animals are so good at teaching us vital design lessons!
Love your own interiors pictured there too!
I live by the rule 'the animals always come first', drummed into me by my dad, as a child and embedded into my thinking to this day!
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoJulie, Minnie looks gorgeous. My Claude was dumped at the school I worked at aged 6 months. Just at that desexing age. He brought me endless joy and was loved by all my neighbours, whom he regularly visited. He was a very out there boy. So gregarious too. He was a darling. I do think he may have been abused at some point though as he had a particular aversion to men with loud voices and sudden movements.
My previous moggies all adopted me and were absolute angels. One even saved my dad's life by stopping him from lifting a bale of hay at chest height, that contained a snake!
Full story click on this link http://www.petsandplants.com.au/blog/sheeba-the-cat-that-saved-a-life
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We even consulted an animal psychologist to get some strategies to deal with her as at one stage I had to keep my back to the wall to walk along my hallway, lest I be attacked!
My legs were covered in cat scratches and she would claw me from behind if I was sitting at my kitchen table. Thankfully throughout that ordeal, she never targeted her canine brother in the way she targeted me!
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Some really great stock and fabulous service!
Reasonably priced too!
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Print on the slip covers is very African!
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