Cat-Friendly Home Design
Interior design with cats in mind.
“It’s like feng shui for cats!”—backed by ethology.
Alana Stevenson provides consults on how your home layout, furniture arrangement, and placement of feline resources can improve your cat’s behavior and prevent or resolve feline behavior problems.
This isn’t just about home décor—it’s behavior modification and enrichment for cats through strategic environmental design. Small changes in how you structure your space can dramatically affect your cat’s behavior. With simple environmental adjustments, you can ease tension between cats, reduce inter-cat aggression, prevent play-aggression, and make your cat more affectionate. Correct locations = feline behavioral success.
Cat-Friendly Design Priorities
- Safety & Comfort — Helping cats feel safe and at ease
- Conflict Reduction — Reducing conflict between cats, other animals, and people
- Furniture Positioning — Arranging furniture for optimal cat behavior
- Enrichment Strategies — Environmental improvements that enhance your cat’s quality of life
- Vertical Spaces — Placement of cat shelves and perches
- Litter Box Setup — Litter box styles and locations
- Feeding Areas — Food and water bowl positioning
- Scratching Solutions — Scratching posts, pad styles, and placement
- Smart Fabric Choices — Fabric selections to deter or encourage scratching behavior
- Space Optimization — Increasing cat space in small homes and rooms
Online Cat-Friendly Home Design Consults
Online cat-friendly home design consults typically last 1–2 hours. Alana assesses your cat’s personality, behavior, and daily routine and reviews video clips of the rooms you’d like to modify. Recommendations are practical and can be implemented immediately.
We worked on re-designing the barn adjacent to our house for amazing cat space!
In the barn, Alana advised us on vertical surfaces, cat trees, litter box positioning, privacy areas and indoor enclosures which allow the cats to be happy and keep a comfortable distance from each other. In the house, we went over different rooms and furniture arrangements, as well as litter boxes and water placement to create the most comfortable cat areas.
With cat changes and other life events, we revisit these areas and rearrange them as appropriate! Our work together has been very important to me, my family and our cats! ~ Dr. Audrey Tracey & multiple kitties, Massachusetts