We suggest you learn how to make a dog kennel. The kennel can be asymmetric, classic, on racks, tropical style and original from plywood triangles.
If you know how to make a kennel for a dog, you will make a cozy house for a human friend. Measure your pet and the booth will be the same size. You can make it from what you have in stock.
How to make a doghouse out of planks?
Just a few planks will be needed to create a cozy nest for your beloved animal.
Such a house is indispensable in summer when it is hot. The boards stuffed on top of the canvases exclude the possibility of the house getting wet. But if you want to prevent a drop of rain from falling, then put a roof covering here.
If the sizes shown here are right for you, then use them. If the dog is small, then you can use the presented inches as centimeters. But if the pet is large, then you need to keep in mind that the dimensions are given in inches. But they are easy to translate into centimeters, if you know that 1 cm is 0.39 inches.
Then:
- the height of the house will be 91.5 cm;
- width 102 cm;
- depth 135 cm.
To make this house, take:
- board available;
- four bars or thick boards for racks;
- thick planks for the base of the roof;
- metal corners;
- self-tapping screws;
- instruments.
First you need to make a base, for this, fasten 4 thick boards or bars to make a rectangle. Fix them with screws and corners. Fill the top tightly with the boards, which will become the floors. Now fasten four wide boards or bars at the corners. Begin making the walls of the structure by fixing each plank between two blocks.
If you want the walls to be solid, then stuff the boards tightly against each other without gaps.
Saw off two identical planks at an angle. Install this roof base on one side. Four small boards will support him. In the same way, you need to make the base on the other side.
Fasten a wide board between them by placing it on the edge.
Here's how to make a dog house next. Take 9 finished planks that will become the roof. You will need to attach 9 on one side and 9 on the other side.
Place a children's mattress inside so that the animal is comfortable to rest here.
The next house is modern, your pet will feel comfortable in it both in winter and in summer.
But first you need to work hard, and first prepare everything you need. It:
- lumber;
- plywood;
- insulating foam;
- angled plastic nozzle;
- roofing materials;
- silicone sealant;
- nuts with bolts;
- screws;
- staples;
- polyurethane construction glue;
- melamine;
- external cladding;
- paints and facade primer;
- roof struts.
First you need to assemble the main frame using beams and melamine. And the OSB sheet will help create the floor frame. Fasten these panels using staples, screws, construction glue. Then you need to cover the wood with silicone sealant.
See how the roof is created. Use plywood and melamine for it.
To make your own doghouse further, create ventilation inside the roof. To do this, you need to drill round holes, reinforce them and fix the metal mesh on top.
Now you need to attach the outer layer to the top of the roof using construction glue and staples. After the glue has dried, prime all surfaces and paint them twice.
If the house for the dog will be on legs, then take aluminum plates and screw them to the cylindrical legs.
Then these devices are painted.
Make the walls, like the ceiling with the floor, of pine. Outside, use textured OSB siding, and inside you need to decorate the house with melamine.
One of the panels will become a door.
In another, you need to embed a window and seal it with silicone.
It remains to prime the walls, paint them and attach them to the corner posts. To make the corners of the house beautiful, decorate them with PVC pipes. First, they need to be primed and painted, and then fixed by taking long screws.
Here's how to make a dog booth with your own hands, so that your beloved animal is warm and comfortable in it at any time of the year. If you want to get acquainted with the original project for a small animal, watch the next master class with step by step photos.
How to make an original home dog kennel?
To make such a charming house, you need to take:
- sheet plywood, preferably birch veneer;
- boards;
- drill;
- drill;
- circular saw.
You will see the list of necessary items in the next photo.
Measure the height of your pet to make sure your dog booth is the right size. In this case, it is 14 inches.
This will be the length of the sides of the equilateral triangles. Draw them on the plywood and then saw off.
You will also need to measure and saw off the corner supports. They are sawn off at an angle of 42 degrees.
Take sandpaper and sand the wood pieces with it. Now you need to attach the corner blocks to the plywood triangles. Use a screwdriver or drill and self-tapping screws for this.
Fasten the structure.
To make the doorway wider, cut off excess from the triangles located here.
Take a few extra blocks of wood and attach them to the base to make the house more stable. This is how to make a kennel for a dog of an original look.
If you want the environment to resemble a tropical island, then make a house for your favorite animal in this style. Going out into the courtyard, you will feel like on the island.
How to make a tropical style doghouse?
The animal will not be hot near such a house, as a spacious visor will protect from the sun. And the artificial grass will not fade and will always look attractive.
Take:
- sheet plywood;
- jigsaw;
- drill;
- bamboo siding;
- bamboo stalks;
- artificial grass;
- artificial vine.
Assemble the plywood sheets by securing them with wooden picket fences and self-tapping screws. This house needs to be finished with bamboo siding so that the structure resembles a tropical one.
Windows can be made from old photo frames. Finish the door using small branches or small diameter bamboo sticks.
Here's how to make a dog house next. Glue the bamboo sticks that you cut into equal straight lines. Secure them to the base. Secure this roof with four uprights.
You can decorate the roof with a real or artificial vine. Make a sign on which write the name of your favorite pet and attach it next to the door.
Do-it-yourself classic dog house
First you need to make the floor, then attach the bars to it, which will become the frame of the house. Saw off two bars at an angle of 45 degrees, place them and fix them in the upper part of the wall, the same workpiece should be on the other side of the wall. This is the base of the roof. Sheathe it and the walls with planks.
Install the bars so that they form the entrance to the house. Board this wall too.
Now attach masking tape to avoid mixing colors and paint the house in two contrasting colors.
Place a pet mattress inside the building so that it snuggles into its beautiful home.
Asymmetric dog kennel
If you do not want to stick to the classic forms, then you can make this type of dog house.
You will need to take painted blocks and fold 5 types of boards from this lumber.
Now from the first set, make a base for the floor. Attach plywood here. From the remaining 4 sets, you need to make a base for the walls and roof.
Saw out sheets of cardboard to size, sheathe the sides of the roof and walls.
Also, plywood needs to be laid on the roof, then painted. When the paint is dry, lay the secure shingles. Treat the entrance and corners of the house by nailing painted planks here. Here's how to make an asymmetrical dog house.
There are other interesting projects as well.
How to make a plywood booth with your own hands?
This material is versatile and allows you to make small houses for animals.
First, make blanks of layouts cut from plywood. Also from this material you need to cut the base of the roof.
Determine what size the door is, you will also saw it out of plywood.
Also saw off the pieces of the desired size. Use them and the sawn sheets of plywood to assemble the base of the dog house.
Make the floor and roof. Connect the elements with corners and bars.
Now feel like real artists and paint the dog house as you wish.
Siding can be made from wooden pallets. To do this, you need to disassemble the pallets and saw off these boards so that they become of the desired size.
Cover the painted booth with them.
Use cedar shingles as shingles or you can cover the roof with the selected roofing material, especially if it was left over from the construction of the main house.
From a pair of boards, make a visor, attaching them to the bars. Cover the top with cedar shingles and attach this sun shade in place.
You can make the roof openable, then in the heat it will be possible to ventilate the kennel. To do this, attach the halves of the door hinges to one side of the roof, and fix the paired sets on the upper parts of the roof. This will help the dog to have some extra fun. After all, she can jump into such a kennel through this hole.
If you have a large empty wooden barrel, then you can learn how to make a dog kennel and bed from such a container.
In conclusion, we suggest looking at how to make a kennel with your own hands. An accelerated master class will allow you to see the stages of all work in just 10 minutes.
How to make a booth for a shepherd dog with your own hands, tells the second video lesson.
