--- title: This Man Created a Simply Purr-fect Indoor Cat Playground in His House description: A builder from Goleta, Calif., has spent the past two decades converting his house into a kitty playground for his 15 rescue cats canonical: https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-26T08:42:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:14.417Z og:title: Man Turns Home Into Playground for Cats og:description: And it's simply purr-fect. og:url: https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Turns Home Into Playground for Cats twitter:description: And it's simply purr-fect. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Man Turned His Home Into a Purr-fect Playground for Cats by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 26, 2015 8:42 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 26, 2015 8:42 AM UTC A builder from Goleta, Calif., has spent the past two decades converting his house into a kitty playground. Peter Cohen spent tens of thousands of dollars building an elaborate home filled with colorful catwalks, hideouts, ramps and tunnels for his 15 rescue cats, the Huffington Post [reports](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/25/cat-playground-house-peter-cohen%5Fn%5F6541778.html). “I _never_ intended to have so many,” he [told](http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/home-remodeling-house-of-nekko-cat-paradise-pictures-photos-skywalk-tunnel-stairway-cats) the website Catster in an interview last year. “It is way too expensive and a tad too much work.” Despite the expense, Cohen and his roommate are happy that they’ve built a safe and fun, and also very bright, feline haven. “They give us unconditional love, and building the catwalks is one way of expressing my gratitude for that,” he said. \[[_Huffington Post_](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/25/cat-playground-house-peter-cohen%5Fn%5F6541778.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/"},"headline":"This Man Turned His Home Into a Purr-fect Playground for Cats","datePublished":"2015-01-26T08:42:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:14.417Z","description":"He calls it the House of Nekko, meaning cat in Japanese","url":"https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","cats","building","rescue","Renovation","remodeling"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3682102/cats-playground-peter-cohen-california-kittens/","name":"This Man Turned His Home Into a Purr-fect Playground for Cats"}}]}] ```