Pooch palaces that make four-legged friends
right at home
By Paul
Hagey, Friday, January 6, 2012.
Inman
News®
"Basset hound house," a project by
Japanese design firm Fauna Plus Design. ImageFauna
Plus Design
Ever thought of designing a living room
for your Gucci-pampered puppy? How about a second-level perch or shin-level views for the plus-one
member of the family?
"What I don't understand is why
all homes are not built with the 'whole' family in mind," said David
Beart, who runs the online magazine Professor's
House and is planning to build a $1 million pet-friendly house from the ground up in Calgary,
Canada.
Still in the preplanning stages, David Beart's pet-friendly home in Canada
will feature pet-accessible entrances and doorways and
low-volatile-organic-compound-containing paints, among other interior and
exterior features, he said.
Kobe, Japan-based Fauna Plus
Design (http://www.fauna.jp/) makes dogs an explicit part of their home design. The firm's dog-friendly
design approach is about aesthetics as much as it is practicalities, said an
assistant to Keiji Hirose, lead architect at Fauna Plus Design. "One day
(Keiji Hirose) realized that it's a challenge for many pet owners to keep their
homes beautiful, so he started to design houses based on animal behavior,"
said the assistant.
The award-winning "Papillon dogs
home," in Kakogawa, Japan, by Fauna Plus Design. Image/Fauna Plus
Design
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