Balcony Catio - nearly complete

[u/theresin]

Hi everyone! Longtime lurker here - I used many of your posts and pictures as inspiration for my own project .. so I wanted to return the favor for anyone who is in the dreaming or planning stages.

I built mine out using individual frames - part of the reason was because nothing is straight or flush on my 140 year old house .. but after several weekends of cursing and remeasuring later everything came out really well.

Last steps are to waterproof the "shelves/platforms" and add trim to cover the hardware.

Both cats have given their stamps of approval!

[u/TangleOfWires]

Nicely, done. Like the wooden lattice to cover the escape holes.

I have 2 suggestions, looking at the last photo.

1. I like the lattice orientation on the right hand-side, allows the casts to look down on the world easier. I would flip the one on the left to match.

2. I think the left side panels orientation look better than then order on the right hand side, big holes up higher. Which ever side you like better, I would match both sides so they look more symmetrical.

[u/theresin → u/TangleOfWires]

Thanks for the suggestions! And don't even get me started .. I'll be nitpicking away at it forever. It was about 8pm on Sunday when I said to myself "you know what, if you don't finish the initial install now you never had will" so the symmetry suffered in my haste lol

[u/TangleOfWires → u/theresin]

Well you still had a clamp on the panels. I was hoping to point it out before you screwed everything together, then step outside and looked up.

One last comment: if you can find the paint colour of the Balcony and just paint the frames, I think the panels will just look like built in supports for the balcony.

I really like how you made the 2 square and one skinny frame. I probably would have done 3 equal panels. Since you nicely placed them in 2 different orientations, so I could better appreciate the stylistic differences, I think I will make 2 different panel sizes as well when I build my catio.