This has been in planning for a while now. Finally we were ready to start. I picked up the supplies yesterday from Bauhaus in town.
6mm wood, 5mm plastic, wooden angled moulding, and metal edging.
This desert cork is for the floor, I ordered it a little while ago.
The cork is 60cmx90cm.....so that meant the floor needed to be a touch bigger than that.
For the walls I got:
2x 91.5cmx50cm (1x6mm-wood and 1x5mm-plastic)
2x 61.5cmx50cm (1x6mm-wood and 1x5mm-plastic)
For the base (to put the cork on) I got:
91.5cmx61.5cmx0.6cm wood.
For the metal edging I got 4x4.5cmx2.5cm
the wooden edging is 15mmx35mm. Again I got 4.
16mm screws...they did pop up through the wood but that's fine, it helps keep the cork in place and the wooden edging is over the top of where the screws come up through the wood.
No glue or silicon used at all.
I'm going to add lots of pics so if anyone wants to look at them and make their own playpen/cage/habitat they can see exactly how we made ours.
Note: The cork is just for fun. Daisy has a huge digging pit and I wanted to give her a different floor experience in her playpen. When she's older and moves into the playpen permanently I'll add substrate to it, Nice and deep for her. You can make it exactly like this without the cork floor and it will be just as good. It was just silliness from me that made it with a cork floor
Now it's not totally finished, I need to finish the top with nice edging/moulding and then it'll be perfect. But I needed to see how big it was going to be before I could do that. More shopping this week