Lack of Lulu

Recently Megan from NotMartha posted tips and suggestions for hanging the Ikea Lack shelf. We have had a Lack shelf gathering dust in a spare bedroom ever since we bought our house. We just didn't have the space or place for it until recently. I suffer from couch-induced idiotness and cannot seem to buy a couch that works, so we used to have one of two couches up against our living room window which was the favorite lounging spot for the cat. Cat in a window? Of course. We got rid of this couch which left poor, poor, forlorn Lulu with no means to window gaze until Jeffery (not me) took pity on her and moved one of our dining room chairs to accommodate her need to spy on the neighbors:

I couldn't handle this at all. It was just too tacky for me. Wanting to appease both women in his life, Jeffery had the inspired idea to hang the Lack shelf under the window so the cat could lounge in affordable style and I could have my chair back:

I whipped up a custom cushion and our princess seems to approve. It's a little shallower than the chair so she has rolled off of it a few times much to my amusement.