The NeoClassic is a richly crafted, substantial showpiece - worthy of a prominent spot on your home’s patio, balcony, sunroom, or anywhere indoors. It is designed to compliment almost any architectural style, and to make interior designers giddy with joy helping you choose bedding, blankets, pillows, plants...

We wanted it to look like pottery or stone but be fairly easy to move around, so its cast in plastic, textured and painted (more about that in the sidebar to the right).

The NeoClassic pet retreat home is big enough to accomodate a cocker spaniel, small enough to feel cozy to my MinPins and my Yorkie.

Even today, I think dogs still have some basic coding in them that prefers a cave to sleep in, to feel protected, to use as a perch or launching point. I’ve noticed my dogs sleep curled up, so the round shape just makes sense. Dogs love it, we can tell you from experience!

Here’s how it’s made

• Your plant! In a warm climate, it provides shade. In a cool climate it provides color, and possibly the soil becomes a heat sink, although we’ve never tested that. In any climate, eventually, your plant will zero out the carbon footprint of manufacturing and shipping the doghouse. The plant does not come with your pet shelter - we would never deprive you the joy of choosing a plant at your local nursery.
• The PLANT BOWL is about 29” wide and almost 11” tall.
• There are 3 holes in the bottom of the bowl, this one on the left provides water drainage. The centered hole allows the bowl and saucer to be bolted to the pet chamber (Bolt not shown).
• This hole is sunk into a void in the bottom of the bowl, it provides water line access so that the planter can be added to your automatic watering system if you like. A watering tube comes up through (P) in the bottom of the chamber (K), up a hidden tube in the back wall which exits the top of the chamber, through a rubber seal (J) and the saucer hole (I) and this hole (D), to your plant above.
• Rubber gasket.
• The SAUCER is about 26“ wide and 3.5” tall.
• hese line details are repeated in the balcony below. They are part of an overall design created to allow the pet retreat fit with almost any architectural style.
• Irrigation pass-through hole.
• Rubber gasket to prevent water leakage to the chamber below.
• The DOGHOUSE CHAMBER is made of a recycleable plastic. It’s 32.25” wide and it’s a little over 32” tall. Overall, the doghouse, saucer and plant bowl are 45“ tall. Dogs the size of Cocker Spaniels and smaller will fit.
• A beveled door hood helps to keep rain out. The door opening is 16.5” high and 11” wide.
• The inside of the chamber is 31” wide at it’s widest. The walls curve smoothly into the floor to make cleaning easier - no corner or edge.
• The floor of the chamber is sloped ever so slightly to the door so rainwater will drain out, should it get inside.
• THE BALCONY. Your pet steps up about 7.5” to get inside. Placing the floor a little above ground level helps keep the floor dry and a little cleaner.
• This is the entry to the tube that is hidden in the back wall, going up to the center of the chamber’s “roof.” See note (D) above.
• This slot in the base allows your water line access should you hook the pet retreat up to your automatic watering system.