so I wanted to make a window cat perch or window cat bed however you want to say it and I started looking around a different store bought ones that they have and then I started looking online at some different plans and ultimately I found this book called birdhouses and more it's by AJ hammer and over the years I've made several of AJ's projects and he's a great woodworker if you haven't checked out any of his books you should he does a really good job at making things simple and easy to understand and you know on this one I kind of went a little on my own and made things a little bit different which you should write if you find a plan that you really like or that you download or whatever don't be afraid to experiment with that a little bit and kind of make it your own this one was made well pretty much it was made entirely out of scrap lumber that I had in my garage but even if you have to buy the lumber for it there's just not a whole lot to it so you can do it for fairly fairly cheap and the carpet that I have on top is actually a bath mat that I picked up at Walmart or Target or one of those types of stores so the whole thing was pretty inexpensive I've got little suction cups on the windows that are kind of helping to support this but it's also held together with our it's strengthened I guess with the brackets that are on the bottom so anyways check out the video of how I made this and as always you can check out my website at woodlogger.com where I have more pictures about this project and other things going on in my shop so one of the first things I have to do is figure out the thickness of the boards that I'm going to need and that will make contact with the walls that are attached to the to the cat bed so what I did first or what I'm going to do first is actually measure the length from the wall to the end of my window sills and everyone's going to need a little bit different so for me mine is about two and five-eighths so I will make mine about two and five-eighths maybe two and three quarters digging myself a little bit of gap there and if you can imagine that this is the bed I'll have a like a support board that will actually from right up to it but it'll also need to make contact with the wall so I'm going to work on that neck the first things I had to do to get my cat bed was to actually cut the board that the bed's going to sit on I made this one 13 by 22 which is what he has in his plans in his book and it works perfect it's just the right size that I want to use one thing that I did do different though was that in the plan at least in the book he's using pine which ideally is probably what you want to do if you have some I've got so much left over 3/4 inch plywood that I really wanted to use it it's a little heavier than pine but I you know I think it'll hold up both that was one of the things one of the next things too was the the brackets out a gap that will be attached to it they're going to kind of go like a little bit like this you can imagine and these will actually attach to some wood and here again I have I got really lucky on this project I've got a lot of leftover scrap in this case I've got oak which I wouldn't normally recommend out for something like this um but I wonder why I had a lot of leftover but I did he'll have the leftover oak plywood and it's it's just the perfect width I mean it was already it was almost like I pre-cut it or something it's perfect so I'm going to be using a lot of these and I am going to do a little bit different problem from AJ's plan because the width of my window sills are so much thicker I'm going to use a full board for that so because I'm going to glued these up and cut these down to the sizes that I want and work on gluing that up hey so I wanted to point out one thing before I start on my miter saw we've never had multiple words especially smaller ones if there's stacks of them and in this case I've got you know the legs and kind of where they'll be joined one thing I always do or will try to do it's tape them up so that you have a consistent cut no matter no matter how many times you do it and that's that's really one of the biggest tricks in woodworking right is you want to have a consistent cut every single time so anyways I tape it up mark it and I just kind of to point that out for just a second so now what I want to do is I want to set my legs up um a little bit at the bottom of the cat pad in what I've decided on mine is you know I cut all these sort of smaller pieces and it's gonna look a little beefy and I kind of like that looking actually better than trying to do maybe a block like that that's thicker I don't know I'm just kind of purely preference on my part but uh really all I'm going to do for that is I'm just going to use some some glue and I think that'll do nicely and I'll be the clamp until it's dry all right well there you have it I'm going to let this dry up for a little bit and repeat the process again for the the other leg that I've got here okay so I've got my board for the bed and I've got it and I've attached these Englebright brackets that will be used when we attach the window and also to the brackets next up I've got my carpet and this carpet I you know I just picked this up at oh it's like a Walmart or Target um and you know what I would cheap on it puts it for our pet and I would if you don't if you have about leftover carpet that would work too next time I'm going to just kind of draw some marks either really just kind of cut marks as a guide so that I'll know when I make my cuts I can fold the carpet overalls tack it on and then tack it over this way as well I probably have to worry about so much on that side as I do this side because of the angle brackets I'm going to have to kind of tuck it around a little bit so it is I'm going to make my marks and cut that out next okay well I've got my carpet I'll cut out the way I want it I've got my angle bracket right there I'm going to go ahead and just pin pull these over and then just use staples to kind of hold everything in place and then I'll just go all the way around the board and kind of stretch it tight as I go and I do everything right it should stay pretty good okay let's take a look okay now I've got my carpet all ready to go so I've got my rails here that are that the that's going to sit on and really my next step now is to go ahead and install the angle brackets so it looks something like this when the bed is sitting on top of it and then this will actually sit against the wall so I'm going to going to install that now and really after that there's not much more okay so I've got my angle brackets on both of my legs right here my next step now is really to sort of take a measurement at my window to confirm how far back I want to have this sit depending on the width of my windowsill I mean want to go further closer to the window marlee I may want to scoot it back some so I'm going to take a measurement on my window and then the last step will be is to simply attach the bracket to the back well you know there is I got my angle bracket attached everything seems to be just fine there next up I just need to attach this to my window and I'm all done so check out my website at woodlogger.com or I'll put some more detailed pictures and some information about this projects and other things going on in my shop and if if you haven't already hit subscribe on YouTube be sure to hit subscribe so that you'll see more videos that I have going on there always a woodworking related and I just put them up there from time to time so I'll see you around