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.
Made in the USA...

Leifers pet retreat homes are made in a deeply textured, highly rigid plastic, using a roto-molding process. The plastic is thick, over a quarter inch, but its designed so no edge shows. This makes it appear as if the walls are 1.25” or thicker. It’s a challenge to make this way, to get the stone-like texture and hide the irrigation tube in the wall of the chamber. But it really looks substantial and no one will know it’s not stone or pottery.

...to be pet safe

They are hand painted inside and out using UV resistant, lead-free, no- or low-VOC paints so they are completely pet safe. The paint has a stone-like grit to it, so the end result is an authentic pottery or stone texture and color.

We suggest natural fertilizers for your plant, simply because they’re near your pet.

Size and Weight

With the plant bowl and saucer the NeoClassic is 32.25” wide and 45” tall. With the tabletop installed instead, it’s 36.5” tall (the tabletop is 4.5” thick). It weighs 90 lbs.

Shipping

We are taking reservations now for delivery on or before January 31, 2009. We will notify you once we have the date confirmed. At that time you can cancel your reservation without any further obligation or confirm your order (color choice, price, shipping charges, special delivery instructions, etc). If you confirm your order, we’ll also ask you for a 10% deposit with the balance to be paid the day your house ships.

We are negotiating shipping rates with FedEx, UPS, DHL and other shippers to get you the very best price we can for shipping the house to you. Once we have the date and shipping methods confirmed, we will contact you to give you the full shipping price and times for delivery.

Applicable sales tax will apply to all Texas residents.

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