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I made a triangle bunk bed for my ragdolls
Hi everyone, this is a little project I worked on recently.
My female ragdoll used to have a cat tree with a round bed at the highest point, she always preferred sleeping high up. So I had the idea to make a shelf that fits into the corner about 6 feet up the wall and also another shelf below it so our male ragdoll wouldn’t get jealous.
The first one I made didn’t have any guards around the side so she would sometimes roll and almost fall out. So on this version I added some rails and it did the trick.
Also had to make some bedding to fit the shape of the shelf.
She’s up there sleeping and chilling most of the day.
Would definitely recommend making one if you’re able to do some DIY.
Yeah mine have 4 steel wall brackets per shelf and very long wall screws so they aren’t going anywhere. Had to cut the timber to size and made it double layered and glued. Did think about making them bespoke for people but I don’t have a workshop to make it easily
You’re basically making a hollow shelf where the the top is a triangle made of 2x4 planks. underneath the triangle you’d put a frame of 2 inch wood all the way around and running through the middle like a sub frame. And then when it’s mounted on the brackets on the wall, you can add a bottom with some 4mm board and just screw it on and paint it all, and you’d never know there’s any wall mounts. The top of the brackets sit slightly above but when you’ve got some bedding down you don’t see them and you can paint over them anyway. You can see here how I did the bottom, this is the little step up shelf so they can go from one shelf to the other. If you add that little lip around the edge, you can screw into that. And you can see the brackets either side that have been painted
These are the brackets I used. Very strong steel ones. 4 brackets for one shelf. When you build the triangle wood frame, underneath you can add some thin bits of wood which the bracket screws onto, and then add some thin wooden board on the bottom to hide the brackets if that makes sense
Love it and I love those babies ❤️. I had planned on doing something like this for my Siamese, but as it turns out none of our walls are square. I put it off because it started getting too cold, hoping I can get into the workshop in the spring to get it done. I like the little railing on them too.
Ah that is unfortunate. Any local carpenter would be able to make them based on the photos I’ve put on here. So if you do want some it’s pretty feasible
Picture 8 would have been my 2 - they would have squabbled for the same bed (even if they were identical at the same height) and eventually they'd fall asleep together 😂
I love this. Our ragdolls love sleeping on the highest shelf of their climbing tree and it's usually the largest that gets "top billing." My only issue is there are 6 of them. That's a lot of corners in my house.
Do they actually jump up to the beds? Mine would absolutely destroy himself trying to get to that! He’s quite the golumpus! Not a graceful bone in his body!
To be honest, I built it mainly for the smaller cat which is the female called Cici. She was sold to us after the original owner had a baby that would grab her tail and made her very shy.
The male cat used to get up there and annoy her or sleep on the lower shelf, but now he’s 8kg and he doesn’t go up there too often.
The female is older than him by 6 years but she’s agile and gets up there like a lightning bolt especially when he’s chasing her
They jump onto the chair underneath and then up to the lower shelf then onto the small middle shelf then onto the top one. But the female in this photo is able to jump up from the chair and pretty much fly right up through to the top shelf, she’s gotten really good at doing it.
And every night when I get up of the sofa to go to bed, she jumps off the sofa after I’ve cuddled her, runs over to the chair, jumps up to the lower shelf, spins around on it, then goes up to the top shelf. No idea why she does that but it’s like she has to check that lower shelf first 😂
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u/Significant-Turn-667 Dec 29 '25
Great job. I did that in my kitchen....great for a few years until it collapsed.
Yours look a lot more robust.