Free Bunny House Plans

Dory here…

Here we are, about one month into the quarantine, settling into this new temporary reality. When it first started, one of the biggest challenges my wife and I had was to find a way to keep our daughters busy. It also wouldn’t hurt them to learn a thing or two we might not otherwise have the chance to teach them.

They’ve always enjoyed working with tools (to the extent we would allow it) and we also had some spare wood in the garage from a deck project at the house. So we all agreed to head out and see what we could make from it. At the same time, the family had been talking about getting a pet, and we all agreed on a bunny. It didn’t take long for us to agree to design and build a house for our bunny, even if we didn’t have it yet.

Now just to be clear, I don’t know how bunnies live, so this was more or less a fun structure to create while spending time with my daughters and teaching them about design, software, measuring, cutting, fastening, and efficient use of material. I’d love to see someone remix it! At the end of the post I have a list of ideas and variations to this design you could make.

The link to download the PDF is after the images.

Screwing on the cedar siding. Made sure all the screws were in line and spaced the same distance apart on each board.
Screwing down the floor boards. When you’re 12 years old, you can sit like that to work in a small space.
Almost there…!
Pre-drilling holes for wheels. We actually used old wheels from a bed frame (because that’s what we had) but I would have preferred proper casters. They were a late addition to the design otherwise we would have installed them sooner!
Finished!!  The Bunny House, in all her morning glory…
Roof detail
Back side of the Bunny House
A clerestory window in a 7 sq. ft. structure? Sure!

Click the link to download your free plans: DORY AZAR ARCHITECT BUNNY HOUSE

So there you have it! Free plans for a Bunny House (that we don’t even have yet). Happy building! Please tag us in your progress!

Talk to you soon…

Dory.

P.S.: As promised, here’s a short list of remix ideas for these plans

Make it smaller for birds
Make it larger for dogs
Make it much larger for a shed
Use a corrugated metal siding/roofing instead of cedar
Increase the roof slope
Remove the wheels and base
Put doors and windows on it
Enclose the ends and hinge the roof, for a storage bin on wheels

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