Places to sleep or play

Cats live in 3 dimensional spaces. When your 2 dimensional space (we humans tend to live in length and width, rather than climbing heights too) is limited, you can still create great spaces for your cats by using height.  Walls, fences, trees - anything can give you additional places for cats to play and sleep. 

Don't be worried  about materials either.  Whether you are on a tight budget, feel deeply about resources (reduce, reuse, recycle), or are building as you go, using lots of different materials will make your cat's life more exciting.  I use found materials, natural materials (tree trimmings), and recycled stuff from the garden as it develops. About the only new materials I used was the mesh used for the catproof fencing.

In one corner of the garden I created a hammock/climbing step out of an old baluster thrown out by someone down the road renovating their verandah, and some weedmat initially used to clear a new section of garden (I don't use sprays to kill grass).  The corner is very popular, as the cats have many levels to climb and spend many happy hours watching the neighbours from the top ones.  The hammock is now a favourite too, it seems to collect a little sun at the right time of day for a snooze, and it is usually dry as any rain quickly runs through it.