Outdoor Cat Enclosures
FERNSTEAD Catio CW01
A 76-inch walk-in catio built from solid fir, galvanized hardware cloth and a real corrugated metal roof. Two full-height doors, three levels, and a rainproof shelter zone.
$299.00$349.00
Backyard structures for pets & gardens
Give the backyard back to the animals who live there.
Fernstead builds catios, coops, hutches, kennels and raised beds the way a good garden building is built — kiln-dried solid wood, galvanized mesh, a real pitched roof, and a manual you can actually follow.
The collection
Five structures, one backyard
Every Fernstead structure is built on the same frame system, in the same finishes, so a catio, a coop and a raised bed look like they belong to the same house.
Chicken Coops & Runs
FERNSTEAD Coop RB02
A walk-in barn-red coop and run for 8-12 birds, with a raised hen house, four nesting boxes, and a full-height human door you can actually stand up in.
$529.00$599.00
Rabbit Hutches
FERNSTEAD Hutch LW03
A two-story hutch with a full ground-level run, natural light wood finish, deep pull-out tray and a ramp your rabbit will actually use.
$239.00$279.00
Raised Garden Beds
FERNSTEAD Grow GB04
A 4x4 raised bed with a rigid hinged mesh canopy built in — not a floppy fabric cover. Keeps rabbits, squirrels, deer and cabbage moths out; lifts open for planting.
$249.00$289.00
Dog Houses & Kennels
FERNSTEAD Den DH05
An insulated, raised, solid-wood dog house with a covered porch, door flap and hinged roof — built for dogs that are actually outside in January.
$169.00$199.00
Why Fernstead
Built for the weather, not for the photograph
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Kiln-dried solid fir
Not particle board with a wood-look wrap. Kiln-dried solid fir, finished in a water-based exterior coating that will not flake off in the first winter.
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19-gauge galvanized mesh
Hardware cloth, batten-strapped at every edge. Chicken wire keeps birds in; it does not keep raccoons out. We use the heavier stuff everywhere.
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A roof that sheds water
Pitched corrugated steel with an overhang, not asphalt felt stapled to plywood that sags and leaks by the second season.
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Assembly you can finish
Every panel is laser-marked to match a full-color printed manual, with a QR code to a step-by-step video. Two people, under an hour, on most models.
✓Free US shippingTo the 48 contiguous states
✓Ships in parcel cartonsEach box under 50 lb — no freight appointment
✓90-day free partsMissing or damaged part? We ship a replacement free
✓2-year warrantyOn frame and hardware
Our story
The fern and the homestead
Fern for the green things that grow in the shade of a yard. Stead for a homestead — a place with a fence, a gate and animals in it. Fernstead is the point where those two meet: the part of a home that lives outdoors.
We started with one frustration. If you want a cat enclosure, a chicken coop or a covered raised bed that will still be standing in five years, you either pay a carpenter thousands of dollars or you buy something flat-packed that arrives warped, unmarked and short of screws.
So we build the middle. Real materials and real joinery, made in our own woodworking factory, packed into cartons a person can carry, with instructions written by someone who has actually assembled the thing.