Make Doggie Stairs - Mini Style

How did we come up with the idea to make doggie stairs, mini style?

Our neighbors at an RV park, Margaret and Jack, had a dilemma. Their West Highland Yorkie, CG, was too small to get up on their bed. Every morning, one of them would have to get out of bed to hoist her up.

We had just made a full sized set of steps (see Build Doggie Steps) to give them, but the stairs were too wide for the space next to their bed.

Below are details as to how we took those Doggie Steps (shown at right) and turned them into Mini Doggie Stairs.

We decided on 5.5 inches (140mm), making them close to 6 inches (150mm) wide with the carpeting applied.

THE FIRST STEPS:

• Removed the carpet running along the top and front of the steps
• Cut the plywood steps and supports as straight as possible 5.5 inches (140mm) from one edge (top of photo at right)
• Removed the screws from the step pieces to be discarded (bottom of photo)
• Moved the loose side against the 5.5 inch steps
• Screwed the new steps and loose side into the supporting 2x2 pieces
• Made sure there was no wobble-had to unscrew and reapply to attain this

ADDING THE CARPET:

• Cut the carpet for the back end to overlap the new width by a couple of inches
• Covered the back flap with the side piece and tacked it all in place
• Cut the carpet that was to run along the tops and front of the steps to extend 3 inches (75mm) beyond the new side
• Created flaps by cutting into the carpet at the corners of the steps
• Tacked the top pieces in place at the corners of the steps
• Tucked the flaps over the sides to make it look neat and tacked in place

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