Building a Multi-level Cat Condo - Page3

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Construction continued ...

The promenade deck looked great with The Chick's professional carpeting job.  However, in the interest of finishing this project before we began collecting social security, we took a shortcut on the other carpeted areas.

We cut our remaining carpet strips to the area of each platform we wanted to cover, and used latex adhesive to glue it down.  I usually have a bucket or two of this stuff lying around for corpsing skeletons, but this was the first time I actually used it for its intended purpose.
Just spread the adhesive with a putty knife, then carefully lay down your carpet.  This dried in about 8 hours, so there is plenty of time to slide things around if you need to.

Using a hot glue gun, we tacked fringe around all the edges where we had short-cutted the carpet.  We almost bought 7 1/2 yards of those little fuzzy balls that you see hanging from the players' hats in a mariachi band.  Somehow that just kept making me think AMC Pacer, so we went instead with a burgundy fringe that wouldn't look out of place hanging from a lamp in a house of ill-repute.  A "cat house" fringe, if you will.

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