Adjusting your bedroom interior design to pets
The question comes from a woman has a large dog who often sleeps on the floor, the medium dog occasionally sleeps on the bed and one cat does sleep with us most nights for most of the night. She has two dog pillows on the floor, but would like some ideas for alternative pet solutions.
Toni Berry who works at Marie Antoinette Custom Home Interiors replies: “I too have a dog and a cat indoors. There is nothing healthier for the soul than sharing our homes with our pets. I recently watched an episode of Martha Stewart and she, too, has a herd of dogs living in her home. She even keeps a bowl of water by the kitchen door where the dogs enter and she washes their feet in it. Then she dries their feet and lets them loose in the house.
I’m not quite that diligent but I do let my basset hound have the run of the place on a regular basis. And our cat is a reigning queen. I’m not sure you really need alternatives, but here are some tips on making your home look more presentable with pets living there.
Dog and cat beds come in a variety of sizes, shapes and fabric colors. Try to coordinate the fabric on the dog bed with the rest of the fabrics being used in the room. For example, our family room is decorated in a rustic theme. I have pine woods and the upholstery is camel, red and dark blue. I have covered my dog’s bed with a plaid blanket in the same colors.
Also to make it easy on me, this blanket just lies on top of his bed, so I can pick it up and throw it in the wash weekly. That’s a lot easier than unzipping and unstuffing and then stuffing (a dog bed) again.
I have repeated the same idea in our living room using a more formal fabric, one that blends in with the floor so it doesn’t stand out. The cat bed on my living room couch also coordinates with the couch upholstery and at a glance just looks like another throw pillow.
The idea here is to include the dog and cat beds as design elements and give them the same importance and consideration that you would any other object in the room. Your pets’ eating and drinking bowls, if in the kitchen, can also be themed after the design of the rest of family’s china. After all, pets are family.”
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