Many of you know that my “Studio” is actually our basement tricked out as a workshop and a repository for the overspill of the creative juices I leak on a constant basis.  It’s dark, but it works, and I like the cozy feel of a darker space.

I share my dungeon studio with only one other soul. Chuki-the-cat. Try as I might, the furry phenom seems to prefer lying on the jutting topography of my keyboard than his cozy pillow upstairs on the couch with Adam.  And he has only one possession down there: his litter box.  The current littler box is not up to Chuki’s discriminating decorating standards and it is true that there is no way to disguise these terrible Tupperware-like litter boxes as anything but a house for cat poop.

Inspired by a post on Shelterrific about SkyMall’s classy Kitty Commode, I decided to do a little search for other pretty litterbox shelters that won’t incite a home decorating intervention by marauding hosts of HGTV reality shows. Here’s what I found:

 Wicker Litterbox Cover from from Bay Isle available at Hunter K-9 Gear.  The design won’t meld into your house seamlessly (it will always be quite obvious that this is a litter box) but it is not expensive and the wicker structure and large cutouts on front and back will make it a brighter and less-smelly place for kitty.

Two Door Litter Box Cabinet available at catsplay.com. When price is no option this is a gorgeous piece of furniture. I wonder if it’s dark and scary inside if you’re a cat?

Rustic Alder Litterbox Cabinet with Sagauro Ribs from Catsplay.  It’s a slightly random but beautiful piece of furniture that will fit nicely into the remote, but still visible, areas of our home where the litter usually lives.

If your cat has an independent source of income and would be willing to chip in, you could afford the Litterbox Furniture Style F1 (catchy name…), also from Catsplay. You also have to have a fairly gigantic home in order to be able to dedicate this much real estate to housing animal poop, but the top section is handy to hide the bin of new litter. What’s the point of a designer litterbox if you’re gonna plunk an ugly plastic bin of  litter beside it?

 Chuki’s all for the Style F1 box, so I have to go proof-read his resume for his job interview to be able to afford it. He wants to sell flip-flops.