I feel like hamster UA-camrs are a dying breed, and I'm so happy to have found you. Not only do you have super unique ideas but the quality of your videos are also really nice! It's a gem of a channel :)
Aw, thank you!! You deserve all the hearts ❤❤❤ 😀 I wish I could do UA-cam full time. I have so many things to share and very limited time to film and edit them. I hope people continue to start UA-cam channels. I hardly watch TV anymore. I mostly watch UA-cam. I prefer the content on UA-cam, and I love being able to pause and go back if I missed something. Another thing I love about UA-cam is how much I learn from others. It surprises me when I have conversations with people and I realize how much I know about so many things, thanks to UA-camrs 🙂
Wow! This is very creative! I think the cloud backround is really cute as well! Can't wait to watch the whole video through! 😃 Glad to see you posted again, honestly I like how you don't have a upload schedule, it makes each upload a surprise lol.
Thank you! I had to have the cloud background, even though I knew my hamsters would destroy it, and they have LOL. Yes, my schedule is upload whenever I finally finish a video and whenever I get the chance. Apparently Noon on Monday is not a good time to upload, but I couldn't wait any longer. It's been way too long already 🙂
This is amazing! I love how you took the extra time and effort to lay out everything you did in detail. This came at a perfect time too as I'm trying to make plans for a double decker cage . I'm so excited for the setup tours!! :)
Thank you! I added chapters to the video so if you want to make it you can easily skip around to the parts you need. I'm excited to share the cage set ups. This cage is great for cage tours because of the glass front. 🙂
Woah!!! This looks amazing! I have 2 Niteangel enclosures and i'm working on building a playpen that covers a section of my room where the cages are! This is next level-- my jaw dropped when I saw the cover image!! Amazing work! :D
what a creative idea! I love how it turned out and the cloud background is super cute!! I’d love to build this but as a super short person I bet cleaning the top would be a huge challenge lol
@@HammyTime have you ever made a raised mesh lid on a plastic tote? It’s supposed to give more clearance for a wheel and platforms so you can have deeper bedding. I’m trying to figure out the best way to make them using some of your methods from your totes too.
@@TeaCupSimmer I've never made a raised lid but I have seen them. I can't remember where. You could cut out curved sides, like arches, out of wire hardware cloth, and then sew them to the top hardware cloth piece with wire. You could zip tie them, but there might be too many gaps. Wire hardware cloth is hard to cut and work with. I always cut myself, so wear gloves and even eye protection if you can. You would need to bend out the bottom a little to be able to attach to the lid with zip ties or wire. 🙂
I've been waiting for someone to design a diy for something like this. Thank you for sharing! While I won't be doing a big build like this for a while, I took my notes and can start planning it out until I'm ready to build. I currently already have 2 linnmon diys so I want to try to attach them together since I already did most of the work but we'll wait and see!
@@HammyTime I do like them separate but for space wise, it makes sense to stack them. I've actually been talking about it for a few months and then boom, your video is uploaded lol instead of buying all new materials, just use what I already have. I'd only have to buy the longer tabletops and remove the sides I already have on so I can attach them together.
@@budgetwithcam Yup! 2 Lagkapten tabletops and that's it. You may have to make a new lid for the bottom cage but hopefully it's not to much more work. 🙂
Evie looks kinda like my new hamster Crookshanks! Ever since I saw her in the hobbit house platform video, I thought it would be cool to have a hamster with her fur coloring since she's so pretty. Now I have Crookshanks, when I got him his coloring reminded me of Evie. 🙂
Aww, congrats on Crookshanks! I love their coloring too. They kind of remind me of golden retrievers. Evie is goofy like a lot of golden retrievers I know. I'll tell Evie she has a twin 🙂
Wow! That looks awesome! I honestly think, though, cleaning it would be such a pain, haha At 20:44, though, that Ikea looks so similar to the Ikea I go to!
Thank you! I mostly spot clean. My Syrian hamster, Evie will bring up all her dirty bedding from her burrow and pile it up next to the glass where I can easily get it and remove it. My dwarf hamster, Theo has tunneled every inch of his bedding, so his latrines are probably in several places, which gives them time to dry out, so I don't have to clean as often. Sometimes he brings up dirty bedding too and I remove it. 🙂
Thank you. I would have made a bigger one but at the time the price of materials was astronomical because of supply issues. The price of wood alone was ridiculous. I always liked Vanilla Ham Ham’s IKEA Linnmon cage, and because the IKEA cost of materials was so affordable I decided to modify her design. I’m content with the size because it’s tall enough to get 10” of bedding and still have room for everything at the surface for my hamster to enjoy. Each enclosure takes 6 bags of the largest packs of bedding you can buy to fill up just one of the enclosures. Each bag costs approx $20. The doors on the side is the best part about this cage. My hamsters love the side door. A playpen is a must, especially for a Syrian hamster. It doesn’t matter how large your enclosure may be, a Syrian will always want to get past any and every wall they see lol. The only changes I have made is I had to line the bottom and sides with tile to stop my Syrian from chewing through the wood. He managed to chew a hole in the bottom corner and was able to escape. He was able to get out and back in because it was low to the ground. I discovered the hole when I was cleaning and found wood bits on the floor. He was asleep in his burrow. He must of had a blast coming and going as he pleased for a few days lol. I felt bad fixing it. It may be possible to make this cage with larger IKEA materials. They have different sizes of table tops and glass tops that might work to expand the size. You may have to get glass custom cut to size elsewhere.
Thank you! It took a couple of days to make. I did it on a weekend. I spent more money than I needed to because I added the doors. I didn't add up the cost because I didn't want to see how much I spent 😬 Most of the things I had to buy were priced higher than normal because of the supply problems and inflation. Ikea is still affordable which is one of the reasons I chose to make this. 🙂
@@HammyTime well you did a really good job!!!! I don’t think I would have added it all up ether!! As long has your hammy loves it!!! That’s all that matters really!!!! 💕💕
Yep I have that drain cover in my bathroom sink!😂 But this is just gorgeous-I’m a mouse mom❣️But how long did it take you to do all of that?! You’ve really blown my mind 🤯….lol 💚
I use one in the sink too lol 😆I was considering mice for the top enclosure 😀 It took me a long time because I was making it up as I went along. I also like to complicate things for myself like making custom brackets to hold the glass on. If I made another it wouldn't take as long because I know exactly what to do. The only thing I would do differently is ceramic tile the floor and sides to prevent chewing. My current Syrian hamster managed to chew his way out in the corner. He's in the bottom enclosure so he was able to come and go as he pleased for a few days before I discovered it lol 🤣 If hamsters can get back into their enclosures they will come back. I had to use a strong wood filler and then used sheets of glass to cover the bottom and sides. Overall I'm very happy with it. I wish it was bigger but I had to work with IKEA parts at the time so I was limited. I built it when the price of wood was at its highest.
@@HammyTime yes with the wood that often happens but there are so many beautiful wood enclosures. You did an excellent job, I'm sure you could make some good money doing this for others! I was even thinking if I knew you would $150 be enough for u to do it, lol though I know you probably hadn't thought about it, I'd have pulled every strand of hair out trying to do that🥴and I don't have the space anyway, just fantasizing. ☺
@@ROSE_reddy Thank you! I would not have the time to make these to sell, and the cost of materials, and my labor would put it well above what most people would want to pay. Bin cages would be better to make to sell, but I don’t plan to 🙂
Hey, thank you so much for posting this. I'm interested in building this cage but it looks like the appropriate sized glass top is no longer available. Do you have any ideas on what I could use instead for the glass panel if I still want to use the linnmon tabletops?
If it's sold out it will be back in stock soon. I had to pick up mine from the store because there were none available online. Shortly after I got mine they were available online again of course. If you can't get glass from IKEA you can try a home improvement store or a local glass company. You can have it custom cut. Acrylic glass would be great, but unfortunately it's very expensive. Acrylic costs more than glass. Try call a glass company to get prices. I avoided that process and used the IKEA glass, so I don't know any specific place to order glass from. 🙂
Oops! Actually, I had to order my glass online. I picked up the table tops from the store. The glass goes out of stock a lot and then gets restocked eventually. The glass was back in stock at the store right after I ordered mine online.
Thank you for subscribing! I used bin cages before this build. You can get 50 gallon storage bins from target and Walmart. I like bin cages because all you need to do is cut out a window on the lid and attach wire mesh hardware cloth and you're done. 🙂
I used IKEA table tops. Hamsters can chew through any wood so you can put tile on the inside floor and sides to protect it. In my experience it's the Syrian hamsters that may chew their enclosures.
Also I'm asking again😂😒😂how do you have time to do all this and be a parent, I saw how clean your sink was the bendy bridge video. (😒 Seriously I'm a mess😳😂)
I don't use it anymore, but I still have it incase I ever need it. I made it for a special needs hamster and because she seemed to really like it, I used it for my other hamsters at the time too. I used it for a couple of years. The washing and drying can be a chore. I use paper bedding now because I like the look of it and it does absorb odors better than the washable bedding. 🙂
Ulcer if people need to find pet friendly paint you can usually go to your Sherwin-Williams and they will mix it up for you so just so you know that little tidbit of information I have painted some pet projects and I had to go to Sherwin-Williams and they mix me up some pet friendly paint
I have five and a half because one lives in the foundation of my house and I can't get her to come out been trying to forever 2 weeks now she'll come out she just don't fall for the traps. Also how do you do you find the time
Oh no! I hope you can find her. Hopefully she will find her way back. I had 2 hamsters, years ago, that got out because I left a door open and they would explore the house all night. Fortunately, they made it back to their cages and slept longer than usual.
@@HammyTime I got her back but she has a head tilt and trouble walking. I found her because the dog wanted to go out and go to the restroom and as I was taking him out he wrapped around me and made it that stop with his face on the ground and it took me a second to realize what was going on thank goodness he did not seem to bite her too hard and he did have her in his mouth but she had no injuries she is walking in circles after I was finally April to get her to stand back up and she was falling over she's lost a lot of weight she was pretty seriously dehydrated. But I don't think any of the head tilt and falling over was caused by the puppy because she was doing it on the security camera that I had watching where she was at so that we're hoping that it's an ear infection she goes to the vet Tuesday
@@jenniferhouse1939 Oh! I'm so glad you got her back! I would have suspected a stroke but an ear infection sounds like a possibility. Dehydration and who knows what she may have eaten. Do you have Critical Care? You can try giving her some of that to boost her nutrition and immunity until she goes to the vet. I give it to my elderly hams once a week. I hope she can make a full recovery. At least she's warm and safe now 🙂
This setup is. Sick. my brother and myself plan on asking. Our parents to get us a hamster, this. Is. The setup I plan to build but I do have a question where do I get a circular saw. And the other saw? And is there an alternative to those. Tools? I am 13.and my. Brother is 9
Thank you! You will definitely need your parent's help with the build. It was the first time I ever used a circular saw and I was nervous. The wood is easy to cut but the saw itself can be very dangerous if not used properly. It's scary even when used properly. Maybe you can have your parents cut the pieces for you and you can put it together. The glass is fragile so you would need help with that too. The saws are very expensive so you would want to ask your parents to help you figure out how to get the pieces cut. 🙂
I feel like hamster UA-camrs are a dying breed, and I'm so happy to have found you. Not only do you have super unique ideas but the quality of your videos are also really nice! It's a gem of a channel :)
Aw, thank you!! You deserve all the hearts ❤❤❤ 😀 I wish I could do UA-cam full time. I have so many things to share and very limited time to film and edit them. I hope people continue to start UA-cam channels. I hardly watch TV anymore. I mostly watch UA-cam. I prefer the content on UA-cam, and I love being able to pause and go back if I missed something. Another thing I love about UA-cam is how much I learn from others. It surprises me when I have conversations with people and I realize how much I know about so many things, thanks to UA-camrs 🙂
Wow! This is very creative! I think the cloud backround is really cute as well! Can't wait to watch the whole video through! 😃 Glad to see you posted again, honestly I like how you don't have a upload schedule, it makes each upload a surprise lol.
Thank you! I had to have the cloud background, even though I knew my hamsters would destroy it, and they have LOL. Yes, my schedule is upload whenever I finally finish a video and whenever I get the chance. Apparently Noon on Monday is not a good time to upload, but I couldn't wait any longer. It's been way too long already 🙂
This is amazing! I love how you took the extra time and effort to lay out everything you did in detail. This came at a perfect time too as I'm trying to make plans for a double decker cage . I'm so excited for the setup tours!! :)
Thank you! I added chapters to the video so if you want to make it you can easily skip around to the parts you need. I'm excited to share the cage set ups. This cage is great for cage tours because of the glass front. 🙂
You are INSANLEY creative and handy! This was so cool to watch, the enclosures look absolutely amazing 👏
Thank you! You get an extra big heart ❤😀
@@HammyTime Haha, thanks!
4 months later and I realize I spelled insanely wrong 😅 🤣
Woah!!! This looks amazing! I have 2 Niteangel enclosures and i'm working on building a playpen that covers a section of my room where the cages are! This is next level-- my jaw dropped when I saw the cover image!! Amazing work! :D
Thank you! The Niteangle cages were all sold out when I made this. I would have got them if available at the time. Your hams will love the playpen! 🙂
@@HammyTime I really hope you can get them one day! :D And thank you
what a creative idea! I love how it turned out and the cloud background is super cute!! I’d love to build this but as a super short person I bet cleaning the top would be a huge challenge lol
Thank you! I'm short too. I have to use a stepping stool 😆
Oh my gosh same, I'm super short 😭
I’d pay someone to make it, and I’m tall❣️
Can’t wait for the full cage tour
Thank you! I got all the video taken. I just need to finish editing it. 🙂
@@HammyTime have you ever made a raised mesh lid on a plastic tote? It’s supposed to give more clearance for a wheel and platforms so you can have deeper bedding. I’m trying to figure out the best way to make them using some of your methods from your totes too.
@@TeaCupSimmer I've never made a raised lid but I have seen them. I can't remember where. You could cut out curved sides, like arches, out of wire hardware cloth, and then sew them to the top hardware cloth piece with wire. You could zip tie them, but there might be too many gaps. Wire hardware cloth is hard to cut and work with. I always cut myself, so wear gloves and even eye protection if you can. You would need to bend out the bottom a little to be able to attach to the lid with zip ties or wire. 🙂
I've been waiting for someone to design a diy for something like this. Thank you for sharing! While I won't be doing a big build like this for a while, I took my notes and can start planning it out until I'm ready to build. I currently already have 2 linnmon diys so I want to try to attach them together since I already did most of the work but we'll wait and see!
Attaching them together is a great idea. There's a lot of different ways to build a cage. I'm sure your hams will appreciate yours 🙂
@@HammyTime I do like them separate but for space wise, it makes sense to stack them. I've actually been talking about it for a few months and then boom, your video is uploaded lol instead of buying all new materials, just use what I already have. I'd only have to buy the longer tabletops and remove the sides I already have on so I can attach them together.
@@budgetwithcam Yup! 2 Lagkapten tabletops and that's it. You may have to make a new lid for the bottom cage but hopefully it's not to much more work. 🙂
The doors are genius
Thank you! My hamsters wait by the door to come out to the playpen 🙂
Evie looks kinda like my new hamster Crookshanks! Ever since I saw her in the hobbit house platform video, I thought it would be cool to have a hamster with her fur coloring since she's so pretty. Now I have Crookshanks, when I got him his coloring reminded me of Evie. 🙂
Aww, congrats on Crookshanks! I love their coloring too. They kind of remind me of golden retrievers. Evie is goofy like a lot of golden retrievers I know. I'll tell Evie she has a twin 🙂
Wow! That looks awesome! I honestly think, though, cleaning it would be such a pain, haha
At 20:44, though, that Ikea looks so similar to the Ikea I go to!
Thank you! I mostly spot clean. My Syrian hamster, Evie will bring up all her dirty bedding from her burrow and pile it up next to the glass where I can easily get it and remove it. My dwarf hamster, Theo has tunneled every inch of his bedding, so his latrines are probably in several places, which gives them time to dry out, so I don't have to clean as often. Sometimes he brings up dirty bedding too and I remove it. 🙂
@@HammyTime aww.. lucky! My hammy makes it hard to spot clean haha!
Yay!! I love your videos
Thank you! It was a lot of work, but it doesn't have to be. I have to complicate everything 😆
Just wish it was bigger…not big enough but an awesome build my friend 🤗🤗
Thank you. I would have made a bigger one but at the time the price of materials was astronomical because of supply issues. The price of wood alone was ridiculous. I always liked Vanilla Ham Ham’s IKEA Linnmon cage, and because the IKEA cost of materials was so affordable I decided to modify her design. I’m content with the size because it’s tall enough to get 10” of bedding and still have room for everything at the surface for my hamster to enjoy. Each enclosure takes 6 bags of the largest packs of bedding you can buy to fill up just one of the enclosures. Each bag costs approx $20. The doors on the side is the best part about this cage. My hamsters love the side door. A playpen is a must, especially for a Syrian hamster. It doesn’t matter how large your enclosure may be, a Syrian will always want to get past any and every wall they see lol. The only changes I have made is I had to line the bottom and sides with tile to stop my Syrian from chewing through the wood. He managed to chew a hole in the bottom corner and was able to escape. He was able to get out and back in because it was low to the ground. I discovered the hole when I was cleaning and found wood bits on the floor. He was asleep in his burrow. He must of had a blast coming and going as he pleased for a few days lol. I felt bad fixing it. It may be possible to make this cage with larger IKEA materials. They have different sizes of table tops and glass tops that might work to expand the size. You may have to get glass custom cut to size elsewhere.
Omg.. new video, I am so excited! 💗
Thank you! 🙂❤
@@HammyTime I really like your ideas and hamsters ;)
Great work!
Thank you! 🙂
How long did it take you to make!!! Plus how much did it cost you to make!!!! Looks amazing ❤️
Thank you! It took a couple of days to make. I did it on a weekend. I spent more money than I needed to because I added the doors. I didn't add up the cost because I didn't want to see how much I spent 😬 Most of the things I had to buy were priced higher than normal because of the supply problems and inflation. Ikea is still affordable which is one of the reasons I chose to make this. 🙂
@@HammyTime well you did a really good job!!!! I don’t think I would have added it all up ether!! As long has your hammy loves it!!! That’s all that matters really!!!! 💕💕
Yep I have that drain cover in my bathroom sink!😂 But this is just gorgeous-I’m a mouse mom❣️But how long did it take you to do all of that?! You’ve really blown my mind 🤯….lol 💚
I use one in the sink too lol 😆I was considering mice for the top enclosure 😀 It took me a long time because I was making it up as I went along. I also like to complicate things for myself like making custom brackets to hold the glass on. If I made another it wouldn't take as long because I know exactly what to do. The only thing I would do differently is ceramic tile the floor and sides to prevent chewing. My current Syrian hamster managed to chew his way out in the corner. He's in the bottom enclosure so he was able to come and go as he pleased for a few days before I discovered it lol 🤣 If hamsters can get back into their enclosures they will come back. I had to use a strong wood filler and then used sheets of glass to cover the bottom and sides. Overall I'm very happy with it. I wish it was bigger but I had to work with IKEA parts at the time so I was limited. I built it when the price of wood was at its highest.
@@HammyTime yes with the wood that often happens but there are so many beautiful wood enclosures. You did an excellent job, I'm sure you could make some good money doing this for others! I was even thinking if I knew you would $150 be enough for u to do it, lol though I know you probably hadn't thought about it, I'd have pulled every strand of hair out trying to do that🥴and I don't have the space anyway, just fantasizing. ☺
@@ROSE_reddy Thank you! I would not have the time to make these to sell, and the cost of materials, and my labor would put it well above what most people would want to pay. Bin cages would be better to make to sell, but I don’t plan to 🙂
Hey, thank you so much for posting this. I'm interested in building this cage but it looks like the appropriate sized glass top is no longer available. Do you have any ideas on what I could use instead for the glass panel if I still want to use the linnmon tabletops?
If it's sold out it will be back in stock soon. I had to pick up mine from the store because there were none available online. Shortly after I got mine they were available online again of course. If you can't get glass from IKEA you can try a home improvement store or a local glass company. You can have it custom cut. Acrylic glass would be great, but unfortunately it's very expensive. Acrylic costs more than glass. Try call a glass company to get prices. I avoided that process and used the IKEA glass, so I don't know any specific place to order glass from. 🙂
Oops! Actually, I had to order my glass online. I picked up the table tops from the store. The glass goes out of stock a lot and then gets restocked eventually. The glass was back in stock at the store right after I ordered mine online.
@@HammyTime i really appreciate your responses :)) I checked back on the site last night and was able to snag the glass as well!
@@herpdederp12 Yay! 😀
Just subscribed ! I’m trying to get a bigger cage because mine is small, but my 2 other hamsters have 50 gallon tanks
Thank you for subscribing! I used bin cages before this build. You can get 50 gallon storage bins from target and Walmart. I like bin cages because all you need to do is cut out a window on the lid and attach wire mesh hardware cloth and you're done. 🙂
@@HammyTime thank you! I usually look for bin cages
What wood did u use and can hamster chew there way out?
I used IKEA table tops. Hamsters can chew through any wood so you can put tile on the inside floor and sides to protect it. In my experience it's the Syrian hamsters that may chew their enclosures.
Are you still using the washable bedding
Also I'm asking again😂😒😂how do you have time to do all this and be a parent, I saw how clean your sink was the bendy bridge video. (😒 Seriously I'm a mess😳😂)
I don't use it anymore, but I still have it incase I ever need it. I made it for a special needs hamster and because she seemed to really like it, I used it for my other hamsters at the time too. I used it for a couple of years. The washing and drying can be a chore. I use paper bedding now because I like the look of it and it does absorb odors better than the washable bedding. 🙂
Ulcer if people need to find pet friendly paint you can usually go to your Sherwin-Williams and they will mix it up for you so just so you know that little tidbit of information I have painted some pet projects and I had to go to Sherwin-Williams and they mix me up some pet friendly paint
I didn't know they could do that. Thanks!
How tall is this double cage?
The sides are IKEA Lagkapten tabletops which are 55 1/8 in tall.
Ermahgerd....🥰😍🥰😍finally someone call this an obsession other than myself because I too and seriously obsessed I've got six syrians
I have five and a half because one lives in the foundation of my house and I can't get her to come out been trying to forever 2 weeks now she'll come out she just don't fall for the traps.
Also how do you do you find the time
Oh no! I hope you can find her. Hopefully she will find her way back. I had 2 hamsters, years ago, that got out because I left a door open and they would explore the house all night. Fortunately, they made it back to their cages and slept longer than usual.
@@HammyTime I got her back but she has a head tilt and trouble walking. I found her because the dog wanted to go out and go to the restroom and as I was taking him out he wrapped around me and made it that stop with his face on the ground and it took me a second to realize what was going on thank goodness he did not seem to bite her too hard and he did have her in his mouth but she had no injuries she is walking in circles after I was finally April to get her to stand back up and she was falling over she's lost a lot of weight she was pretty seriously dehydrated. But I don't think any of the head tilt and falling over was caused by the puppy because she was doing it on the security camera that I had watching where she was at so that we're hoping that it's an ear infection she goes to the vet Tuesday
@@jenniferhouse1939 Oh! I'm so glad you got her back! I would have suspected a stroke but an ear infection sounds like a possibility. Dehydration and who knows what she may have eaten. Do you have Critical Care? You can try giving her some of that to boost her nutrition and immunity until she goes to the vet. I give it to my elderly hams once a week. I hope she can make a full recovery. At least she's warm and safe now 🙂
This setup is. Sick. my brother and myself plan on asking. Our parents to get us a hamster, this. Is. The setup I plan to build but I do have a question where do I get a circular saw. And the other saw? And is there an alternative to those. Tools? I am 13.and my. Brother is 9
Thank you! You will definitely need your parent's help with the build. It was the first time I ever used a circular saw and I was nervous. The wood is easy to cut but the saw itself can be very dangerous if not used properly. It's scary even when used properly. Maybe you can have your parents cut the pieces for you and you can put it together. The glass is fragile so you would need help with that too. The saws are very expensive so you would want to ask your parents to help you figure out how to get the pieces cut. 🙂
@@HammyTime thank u for replying I think your hamster is very cute 🐹
Very inexpensive! I will try doing this. I already have made a base but still need the glass
That's what I love about the Linnmon cage. It's affordable and the parts are from Ikea. I had to wait on the glass too. 🙂