- 4 hours over 2 days
- About $60
Difficulty: Easy to moderate
Cutting the angles and keeping everything square can take some precision.
Your companion follows you everywhere—on walks to the park, down the driveway to get the mail, and even to bed at night. But when one hop doesn't quite cut it anymore, or arthritis makes the trip to bed too difficult, the addition of a handy ramp that collapses for storage and hides away pet bedding feels like a custom fit. In fact, if your pup is part of the 20 percent of adult dogs experts say suffer from osteoarthritis; the gentle incline could even help avoid injury.
As This Old House senior technical editor Mark Powers shows here, angled sides, fold down legs and a flip open top come together to make a functional bedroom accessory that'll get your companion where he wants to be—closer to you.
Plan to make one of these? Show us the finished project and you could be featured in This Old House magazine
