Caviary Design

So I'm currently wading through endless university work, which of course makes me ever so creative and I have a few trillion cage designs in my head.


Now I've never actually built much, I love building but I'm a girl and unfortunately sexism is still rampant. Tools were for men. So I learned how to build things with a hammer and nails, the only things I was allowed. However I'm fairly confident that I can use power tools, as long as I have them. Besides Bunnings is always offering free classes. I've been promised a complete set of power tools when we move (mainly because someone wants a chook house and cages for a veggie garden) so my mind has been wandering about what I would like to build, or whether I'd rather simply buy cages.

I adore the look of these-http://www.gtmall.com.au/4-level-162cm-ferret-cat-bird-aviary-cage.html

another person on he forums has turned a similiar cage into four level bank, which looks great.

At the same time though there's a design in my head that would be very similar but I could make it myself out of the sheets of sturdy wire mesh and a bit of wire, it would be just as stable. Then I'd simply line the cages with corflute. The cage would be 1.8m long with 120cm of double doors at the front.... It would cost a bit less too.... To create the same thing out of two ferret cages would be $340 plus $190 for the corflute, so $530 total. But the material to create wire grid cages would be $250 at most plus $190 for corflute so $440, still pricey but it may be worth it.

Or I could build wood and wire cages, however they would be heavier and harder to sanitise...

So many options, guess I'll have to wait and see what area I have before deciding....