Stylish urban goat sheds
Stylish urban goat sheds
As President of the Goat Justice League and proprietor of this website, designers from all over the world contact me and ask, “Jennie, how are today’s stylish urban dairy goats living? What is the newest in goat shed and goat garden design?” Here is my answer.
For Didi’s Christmas gift, Tom commissioned a Ballard metal artist to design and build this special gateway into Rosie and Phyllis’ yard. The design subtly communicates, “welcome to our goat yard.”
Located in the corner of the yard, the goat garden room adds interest and charm. On summer evenings, the Burpee-Beirele family dines outdoors while their goats chew their cud and look on.
Didi maintains that no modern goat yard is complete without a pile of rubble to add interest and keep hooves healthy. Here, Rosie and Phyllis enjoy their “goat mountain.”
Concerned that their goats were not getting the intellectual stimulation necessary for today’s modern world, Tom built this goat play structure. Phyllis and Rosie like to climb it and then butt one another off.
brown goat, Lavender
white & black, Ophelia
In the evenings or on rainy days, Phyllis and Rosie are able to retreat into their lovely goat cottage. The small cottage was originally designed as a detached home office by Seattle’s prominent architect and interior designer, Grace Schlitt. After Tom and Didi bought the home, they decided to remodel it for the doelings they would soon be adopting. Upon hearing that Tom and Didi were remodeling the shed for their goats, Ms. Schlitt was overheard to say “Why the **** didn’t they just convert the tool shed?” This led some goat activists to wonder whether Ms. Schlitt understands the aesthetic needs of the modern dairy animal.
When Tom and Didi Burpee/Beirele purchased their home in the northern corner of the Madrona neighborhood overlooking Lake Washington, they did not know they were destined to purchase goats. However, when the Seattle City Council pronounced goats as permissible pets, before Tom knew it, Didi and their two daughters, Ada and Mette, were asking, “Don’t you think that what we need are two mini-dairy goats to grace our stylish back yard?” Tom, who is now the Goat Justice League’s Vice President in Charge of all two guys who think it’s a good idea to keep goats in the back yard, had no choice but to reply,”yes” to the bevy of goat loving females with whom he dwells.
Today, Tom and Didi are the proud caretakers of two does, who go by the names, Rosie Fluffy Socks (aka Rosie) and Phyllis Schulman (aka Phyllis).
THE VINH GOAT RESIDENCE