You love your bunny, and you know how much they enjoy their floor time and space. If you’ve recently been searching around online, you might’ve caught on to people who are creating entire rooms for their rabbits.
If you have a spare room or a section that you could use for your bunnies, we’re going to walk you through how to make the whole set up front to back. Ultimately the design will be up to you.
Find a Suitable Space
You don’t necessarily have to devote an entire room for your rabbit. But a rabbit room will need a decent amount of space. You have tons of options to get creative here. Once you have the spacing figured out, you need to make sure that all of their belongings will fit nicely in the space.
Catalog Your Materials
Materials will be up to you depending on the type of rabbit room you plan to make. If you want to section off a part of your home, you will need a few things to get you started. Depending on the plans you’re following, you need to make a detailed list of necessary supplies.
Decide on Levels and Placement
Your rabbit is going to want to run, jump, and play. To give them adequate activity time, you want to create multiple levels, hideouts, nooks, and crannies.
There are tons of pop-up boxes, platforms, and ramps that you can provide to your rabbits. You can make it home yourself with a few simple supplies, while others require in-store purchases.
The entire concept of giving your rabbit more room is to provide them with more fun things to do. Your rabbit should have various activities and stations to keep them occupied and safe.
Secure the Flooring
Because of the room for accidents and masses, putting something down to protect your flooring is absolutely essential.
If you are putting your rabbit room in an area with carpet, you need to make sure that no waste or debris will seep into it. Having some type of mat, plastic, or rubber placement down will prevent tarnishing the floors underneath.
Litter Training Rabbits
If your rabbits have an entirely private room, you might be surprised to know how easy it is to litter train them. The larger the space, the larger the waste. You’re going to have to clean up their droppings continuously.
They will be scattered all over the cage unless your rabbit channels their bathroom habits to a specific space. If you’re interested and litter training rabbits, the process might be a little bit simpler than what you would imagine.
Smaller critters can pick up litter training quite well due to their natural desire to only potty in a particular area.
Much like a cat, you can provide your rabbit a litter box to do their business, and you can sift through and change it out as needed. That will help to keep your rabbit’s little room tidy and fresh.
Rabbit Room Ideas
1. Cooper the Pooper DIY Rabbit Room
This Cooper the Popper DIY Rabbit Room goes over the materials and process for making an awesome rabbit enclosure. There is no video with step-by-step instructions, but if you’re construction savvy, you can fill in the blanks.
The blog walks you through the list of materials you need to get started. You will have to buy wood, have tools on hand, and have experience with building.
2. Manor Pet Housing Rabbit Enrichment Hides
Manor Pet Housing Rabbit Enrichment Hides shows you a gallery of impressively built enclosures for indoor use. While the company specializes in crafting homes for rabbit owners, you can also nab a few neat ideas to use on your own.
All you will have to do is self-research your supplies, measure your room, and start building with your own plans. If you are a handy person who is tool savvy, recreating some of these designs might be a cakewalk for you.
3. Manor Pet Housing Customer Set Up Ideas
In addition to sparking your imagination with endless rabbit room enclosure ideas, Manor Pet Housing also gives you some setup ideas.
Rather than being a step-by-step tutorial, these rabbit play stations give you lots of cool options. There are tons of pictures of fun areas your rabbit can explore within their enclosure.
You will still need to look up measurements if you plan to build a cage around these hides and ramps. But this can give you a really excellent sense of inspiration for how you’ll fill up your rabbit room.
4. DIY Bunny Cage
In this YouTube video, you will see a timelapse of a large indoor bunny room for your pal. This DIY bunny cage is easy enough to put together, although the video does not list materials or exact measurements for each piece.
This option would be perfect for someone who knows a bit about craftsmanship, able to replicate what they show. They include every last detail in the video to give you a good mental image of what you will need. The ending measurements are 75” x 32” x 30”—but you can tailor the project to fit your space.
5. Live Sweet Blog Indoor Bunny Enclosures
The Live Sweet Blog Indoor Bunny Enclosure page gives you many repurposing ideas for your rabbit room. They show examples of old hutches, dressers, and other furniture pieces—turning dated into banging homes for your bunny.
You can create open concepts or cages depending on your preference. It teaches you how to make your rabbit room private or spacious.
Final Thoughts
No matter the setup you pick, you can make a safe haven for your bunny. There are tons of exciting ideas all over the web. You can make it as intricate or simple as you wish, but one thing is for sure—your rabbit will appreciate the extra space.
If you litter train your rabbit, it’s all the better. It will make your clean-up duties so much easier, allowing the enclosure to stay sanitary.
Featured Image Credit: G_O_S, Shutterstock
Ashley Bates is a freelance dog writer and pet enthusiast who is currently studying the art of animal therapy. A mother to four human children— and 23 furry and feathery kids, too – Ashley volunteers at local shelters, advocates for animal well-being, and rescues every creature she finds. Her mission is to create awareness, education, and entertainment about pets to prevent homelessness. Her specialties are cats and dogs.
