[Smudger]

The two indoor living areas will each have a cat-flap that allows access to an outdoor run for each guinnea/rabbit pair-they won't be having free run of the back garden! The runs themselves are probably 3' square each, made of wooden frames covered with wire-mesh with a very small grid. Each run is topped with a sturdy lid-one half is the same mesh as the sides, the other is a sheet of wood which provides a shaded area. I plan to have a small brick wall buried under the perimeter of each run, to prevent escape via tunnelling, and will secure the runs to the floor (probably with metal tent pegs), and the lids to the runs (probably with some suitable shop-bought catches).

I just decided (after a chat with my dad) to insulate the floor of the shed with thick polystyrene sheets, and to cover those with some packs of tongue and groove chipboard flooring (the stuff you use in attics).

All in all, this should hopefully be a little palace!