The Googie Cat Bed! Fun for your Cat and Your Home! It's a Give-Away!!

"Eeey!!" said in the tone of Arthur Fonzarelli  (better known as "Fonzie" from Happy Days!). Grab your poodle skirt (that's right, grab your POODLE skirt, they didn't make cat skirts in the '50s, they DID have kitten heels, but I digress...) and your cat, we are going to time travel back to the 1950's with Googie Cat Beds!

The Googie Cat Bed
:Photo Courtesy of Tom Davies

Being a child of the 50's (did I REALLY just ADMIT that?), I was tickled when I first saw Googie Cat Beds featured on a number of blogs that are written by  some of my cat blogger friends.

I was even MORE tickled when Tom Davies of:

 generously afforded me  the opportunity to review one! 

I vividly,(and fondly) remember formica kitchen counter tops and the fun 50's fare that was placed on top of them, and when I watch Cody loving on his Googie Cat Bed, with the formica and plywood sides, the memories come flooding back! When I view the Googie Cat Bed I want to grab my hula hoop and do the Twist!

The Googie Cat Bed is one of less than a handful of items, that when it arrived at my home, Cody IMMEDIATELY set out to investigate it! It was truly love at first sight!

Tom Davies, the artist/craftsman/designer behind Davies Decor and the Googie Cat Beds wanted FUN items for his hum-drum home, (by his own admission, his home,  "looked like so many other homes, full of flat-pack, off-the-shelf furnishings that lacked personality and worn, hand-me-down furniture too uncool even for my parents.It got to the point where I was embarrassed to have people over. Sad, but true.I wanted to reset my home with fun, unique stuff that I knew no one else would have, but where would I get it?"

What did he do?

He created them for himself! 

Here is a bit of history about Tom, (one other connection that we discovered that we share is that we are both originally from Cleveland, Ohio!, Tom is yet another fine example of how "Cleveland Rocks!")

Tom Davies
Photo Courtesy of
http://www.daviesdecor.com/

"After working for over ten years as a web designer and art director in corporate art and marketing departments, Tom Davies decided to stop pushing pixels around a computer screen and to start making real objects that exist in the real world.

Trained as an artist in Massachusetts and forever designing and building, Tom combines his skills as an artist and furniture maker with his natural (one might say compulsive) attention to detail. His home is filled with handmade objects of his own original design.

Tom has been asked “Where did you get that?” by guests in his home often enough that he has now launched daviesdecor.com as a way to share his creations, including his unique architecturally inspired cat furniture, with the rest of the world." 

Cody isn't the only one who loves the Googie Cat Bed. I DO TOO! It reminds me of a stool/chair I had, (yes, in the mid to late 1950's) that was also lovingly hand-built. My mind immediately flashed back to that stool when I first saw the Googie Cat Bed! What great memories it brings back!

It is rare to find fun, stylish and quality HAND-BUILT items in the world we live in now. The Googie Cat Bed transports me back to a a time of innocence and , fun, The Googie Cat Bed "celebrates the spirited optimism of postwar America."

Don't think that CATS are the ONLY ones 

who want a Googie Cat Bed!!!

After reading and viewing the Googie Cat Bed I bet YOU and YOUR cat want one too! They are available on Amazon and of course on DaviesDecor.com, BUT TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY!!!

Tom has generously offered ONE READER OF THIS BLOG the opportunity to WIN a Googie Cat Bed! (A $250 value!) All you have to do is enter on the rafflecopter below. The give-away is open to EVERYONE...BUT....the beds are only able to be shipped throughout the U.S. (If a reader located outside of the U.S. would like to enter for an American friend, they are more than welcome to do so!) THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON NOVEMBER 18th, 2014.

ALSO if you order a Googie Cat Bed, BEFORE DECEMBER 31ST, 2014 (which by the way would be a PAWTASTIC item to surprise your cat(s) with during the holidays,) if you use the code: googieholiday at checkout you will get:

FREE SHIPPING!!

Now, put your paws to the keyboard and enter away! GOOD LUCK!!!!
a Rafflecopter giveaway


But wait! There's more!!! Check out this video featuring another amazing product from Davies Decor! The Post and Beam Cat House!!









In full Disclosure:I was compensated for featuring the Googie Cat Bed and for hosting a give-away. I was also sent a Googie Cat Bed for Cody to try---he LOVES IT! Receiving compensation in NO way influenced this  review. I only feature products that either I (or Cody), personally use, would use, or that I  feel would be of interest to my readers, I do NOT feature products that I do NOT believe in, regardless if whether or not I receive compensation.