A Place for Everything

Disclaimer: If you haven’t been following the progress of the Doggie Domain, you may want to skip this post.  It is sorta silly, really, but I absolutely love having the means to make routine, repetitive daily tasks as easy and quickly done as possible.  With that end in mind,  it took a good deal of time and many changes in details to design the perfect dog-feeding cabinet. And, here it is–freshly installed with just two adjustments to be made tomorrow.  Chino did a great job building a  cabinet exactly to my specifications!

It’s on rollers so I can move it if I need to.

Top door opens to reveal the fridge needed to store opened cans of dog food. When Morrie learned to open the fridge door, it meant  moving the fridge from the bottom to the top of the cabinet.

Twin doors below the fridge open to reveal a shelf big enough for all three bowls to be stored, waiting to be filled with kibble at the next feeding.  I’m having a half shelf built above them for more storage.  I’ll still have easy access to all the bowls.

Next drawer down is big enough to store two large bags of dog food, side by side.  I’m having a division put in so I can store Frida’s food to the right and Morrie and Diego’s to the left.  I’ll pour bags directly into the drawers to save room.

The two bottom drawers store canned food, grooming supplies and dog biscuits–in a drawer Morrie can’t open.  See him checking it out?

Here it is all sealed up again, tight as a drum. The metal chest to the right will be removed as soon as the deep drawer for kibble has its divider installed tomorrow. If Chino can make another little storage container to cover up the electrical plug and cord, I will be happy.  Or perhaps a little stand to hang collars and leashes on?  What a luxury to be able to afford handmade furniture to your design in Mexico.  I’ve designed most of my furniture and love how utilitarian it is. This is the tenth piece Chino has made for me.

Okay, Bob.  Now it’s time to get revenge for the time I teased you about your post describing your new pan that you ordered on the internet.  I confess, this is much worse!  And I must admit I totally understand how exciting it is to have exactly the correct “tool” for something you need to do every day.  I just couldn’t resist ribbing you.  Now I’m having to pay the piper!!!