Home office and hallway closet. No basement in this house. They don't fit in either of the bathrooms.

Just don't keep it in a human's bathroom. It is disgusting to sit on the toilet or wash your hands when cat feces are staring you in the face and up your nose. So gross, especially to visitors to your home. Just sayin'.

We scoop each times she uses the liter box so there is no (or little) smell. We keep it in the laundry room with a mat outside the box and one at the door from the room. She still manages to track a few in the hall (wood floor) but use a Hoover Linx cordless vac to clean up the bits she does track.

In the unfinished part of our basement.

In the garage. We have a cat door installed on the door that leads to the garage.

In our finished basement under the stairs hidden by a door with a cat door in it. In my last home it was in a small mud room.

I have two jumbo litter boxes in my office for my two cats. I have a litter-catching mat at the entrance to the boxes and most of extra litter stays there. A little makes its way out into the hall, but it's out of the way and I accept that it comes with having indoor cats. I scoop every day, sometimes more often if people are coming over. My office is out of the way so smells (plus good litter and good burying skills) don't make it into the rest of my small house.

The worst part is the dust, despite my litter (and many others) claiming to be 99.99% dust proof. There's dust. I also keep a little OXO dustpan and brush on a nearby shelf and sweep up the litter that comes out of the box.

It's good if you can just designate a certain area in an out of the way room. It does take up a bit of space, but I love my indoor-only cats and so it's just part of the deal.

In the laundry room, which is in a low traffic part of our house. We scoop every day. We don't feed our cats dry food, and have noticed that one benefit of wet only is that they go less and their boxes never smell unless one of them is sick. They scatter litter around the room, but it rarely comes back upstairs with them.

In the basement.

Susanzone, when I lived in a condo, there was NO other choice but the bathroom. I mean, my other rooms then were the kitchen, one of two bedrooms, or the living room.

I have three cats and one large box that I keep in the utility room, which is off the kitchen. It's in a place where I can scoop it several times a day, especially before I go to bed and when I get up in the morning.

Can you get rid of the box next to the door since you have others? Not long ago I bought a rug mat to lay under litter boxes after trying everything, and it works great! Got it from Walmart.

3 cats, 2 boxes. The boys share a box in the laundry room. I have a small rug in front of it along with a plastic tracking tray. I still have to vacuum in that room and the nearby hallway daily. Hanna has her own box that sits in the third bedroom aka junk room. Both boxes are scooped at least twice a day.

I put a litter box temporarily in the bathroom when an outside/inside cat became mostly inside. Well, it's still there. I keep thinking I want to move it but right now I don't have too many options. No entry to the cellar from upstairs. But I keep it clean at all times, like always flipping on the light and checking all day when I'm home to see if it needs scooped. I also use a corn based litter that is very good at keeping smells to nearly zero (unless "it" is fresh-ew). There is alot of dust as someone else mentioned. And there is tracking, even tho I have a folded vinyl tablecloth under the box.

I'm still leaning toward placing it in here, the computer room. The bathroom has tile tho and this room has old hardwood. Not as easy to clean up tracked or litter thrown out of the box. I'm wondering if the cat would adjust to a new placement easily.

I think most litter is pretty good at keeping smells to a minimum. Of course, my cats seem to reserve poop time for when I'm doing bills or makeup or some other office activity, and then I step out for a moment. I don't see where litter box smells are much worse than what can go on in a human bathroom.

2 cats, 2 boxes; same size pans both patrolled regularly multiple times a day. One in the laundry room the other in the powder room. We don't have too many guests but if we did, I would move the powder room one into my master bath temporarily. I like having one in the powder room because if someone leaves a poop bomb, I can scoop and dispose of it and let the exhaust fan take care of that room. Works well for me.....

"I'm wondering if the cat would adjust to a new placement easily."

I would keep the old litter box in place while letting the cat adjust to the new one. You might keep the old one anyway. The rule of thumb for litterboxes is one for each cat plus one extra. Of course, sometimes we are too limited by space to do that! My two cats have two boxes, one in the master bathroom and one in the almost never used guest room. The boxes are covered, so one never sees the poop.

While a vinyl tablecloth will be easy to clean, it won't catch and hold scattered bits of litter. Good litterbox mats that are grooved for catching litter are available on Amazon and various pet supply sites. They work!I I also keep a charged Dustbuster near each box for handy cleaning up. We had a cat who loved the Dustbuster. Whenever he heard it operating he would come running and bang it with his paw!

I keep a litter box in the master bathroom. The vanity is long with two sinks and the space in the middle is open to accomodate a vanity chair (which I don't have) so it fits nicely underneath. I use an old terry towel under the box along with a mat along side the box so very little litter gets tracked.

We have a small spare bedroom that is in reality a large storage room. The litter boxes are in there. There truly is no other space for them in the house. And litter mats so not much makes it out of that room.

We have one downstairs in the laundry room, and another upstairs in the bathroom adjoining the far back bedroom. In that one, the litterbox is actually a very large under-bed plastic tote that fits in the bathtub (we have no need to use the tub) perfectly.

We have 2 cats and 3 boxes. 2 are downstairs in the store room and one is in the master bath. We use clump n seal and have noticed far less tracking and dust as well as odor. We scoop daily plus our cats go outdoors too. We also use a washable mat that they walk on so it helps clean their feet.

If you look on pinterest there are all sorts of furniture and other ways of stowing cat boxes that are out of sight but still accessible for cat to use and human to clean.

In a (former) coat closet next to the door into the garage. I added a low shelf in the closet, under which I kept the litter box. The low shelf was used for brooms, mops, vacuum and carpet steam cleaner; other cleaning supplies were on higher shelves. The cat accessed the litter box from an opening cut into the side of the closet. Tracking litter wasn't a problem because I always had a rug on the floor at the garage entry.

Like Rory: attached garage w/ cat door.

I saw a tip somewhere to use an underbed storage box instead of a regular sized litter box & it does help to contain the litter. I have a mat under the box - an old woven rag rug that's easy to clean because it can go in the laundry.

Four indoor only cats-six boxes. 3 are in a hallway outside the spare room, 2 are in the spare room and one is near the door in the front room (that we never use). I have put down carpet tiles in the hall to catch all the litter and occasional messes when someone leans too far over the edge. We literally have no other place to put the boxes, as the garage bay door is open for DH's business 10 mos out of the year, and my laundry room is out in the garage too. Bathrooms are too small to acomodate boxes.

We clean them multiple times a day. But sometimes they will all use just one box during the day and it gets full so fast, but when we reduced the number of boxes we had problems. The front room box is seldom used, but once in a while someone gets in a snit with the others and will use it.

I dream of a house with a room dedicated to the cats, and one for the dogs, too if that were possible. I wish I could train the cats to use the toilets-THAT would be perfect-no more litter!

There are videos on line of cats who not only toilet but flush!

We have two in the laundry room. The downfall is our laundry room is off to the right when you come in the side entrance - that we and everyone else use all the time. I don't really want to see a litter box anywhere but if you have a cat, most likely you're going to have litter boxes. I don't want my cats using my toilets. I honestly don't know where I would put the boxes if I didn't have a LR. The way our bathrooms are laid out there really isn't room in there. I'd probably have to put them in our bedroom. If that were the case I'd definitely try to disguise it somehow by having something custom made and praying they use it. Maybe something with the back open with some space above since mine don't like lids.

The biggest issue is the mess on the floor. That's why they're in the store room downstairs where the floor is painted concrete or upstairs on tile. I'd be concerned about putting the boxes on even hardwood as the litter can be somewhat abrasive and get into the cracks. Also consider the dust factor. If I had to put it somewhere less than ideal, I'd think about putting a box inside a bigger bin so that the overflow of litter and such from their digging can be contained. I think robo does this?

I have questions for those who keep the litter box in the garage. How do you keep from accidentally opening the big garage door to the outside when the cat is in the garage? What if you came home and raised the door as the cat is using the litter box? I would be worried they would run out scared and get lost. And I guarantee mine would never step foot in the garage or litter box again. But mine are indoor only and a little skittish. I've always thought of maybe having a little "anteroom" built from the raised threshold out of the inside door, with another door going to the actual garage. Cats!

Right now I have 3 cats and 3 litter boxes in the "junk/storage" room and 1 more behind a screen in my bedroom. They are scooped as soon as they are used when I'm home and first thing when I get home after work.

Thanks for all the info! I plan on keeping one by the front door for now. I will move the other to my husband's office. We have a finicky cat. She hangs our in his office all of the time. I think she feels safe in there. Hopefully she will use it and we can relocate the second elsewhere (away from the front door). I also have one hidden in the bathroom.

We have ours in the garage too. My DH built a "pen" into the corner-right by the garage door going out to our garage. The doggy door is installed into our wall going into the pen. So cats do not get into the open area of the garage, so opening big garage door is not a problem. We open the gate to the "pen" to clean litter boxes. We built ours really tall-instead of having a top on it-so cats couldn't jump over it. But, we could easily put a top on if it ever was a problem, but for two years now, they have not ever gone over the top. In the winter (like now) we have a heat lamp-like for chickens-clamped to the side of it-it gives them heat and light for the dark garage. In the summer, I have a night light out there.

Thank you for explaining how you have yours set up, olliesmom.

Olliesmom, I would love to see a photo of that, if you're inclined to share. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the "where do we put it?" dilemma.

Ida, I was afraid someone might ask that! LOL! Our garage is such a mess-I promise when it's cleaned up, I will!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/117586240242857918/

Above is a link where we got the idea. Hopefully it works. Ours is actually on a platform about 1 ft tall, where I don't have to bend down as much to clean. I have two litter boxes in there. We have two cats.

As long as you have a clear corner next to your inside garage door, it should be no problem.

Oh also, we went to Home Depot and got the rubber runners in the rug department and put down as waterproof flooring for kitty accidents. But, I think what we are going to do this spring, is take that up and put down the stick-down type laminate tiles-because the rubber runner does slide around a bit. We also don't have the chicken wire-just wood going up the sides.

We are totally re-doing our garage this spring and we will probably be updating the kitty litter area a little too. My DH did it in a hurry!

Thanks, Olliesmom! That is a GREAT idea! Boy, I'd sure like to do something similar to get our downstairs litter box out of the house, and I think it should be pretty easy to install something just like this. Hmmmm. Will have to see how DH feels about putting a hole in the wall. ;-)

This is a timely thread for me as I had to move the cat box due to the installation of an extra security door which I lock every night. The cat box has been moved to my bathroom.

I am changing over from clay litter to clumping litter so I can scoop more effectively.

I will certainly make sure the area is tidy and recently scooped if I expect guests, but if the cat has to use the box then the cat has to use the box, the kind of people I invite into my home understand that I have pets and understand the reality of that.

3 boxes for 2 cats. 2 regular sized, one that is actually an under the bed storage box. All located in the basement. I use wheat based clumping litter.

The things we do for our pets! We have 5 cats and 6 boxes. We have them in a closet in our laundry room, in a closet in our master bath, and a few in the basement. We make them from Rubbermaid type storage totes, which helps contain the litter in the box and prevents accidents (one kitty accidentally pees over the edge of traditional, shorter boxes). For the ones in our living space, I put them on heavy duty area rugs from Home Depot or Lowes - they're sort of like water hog mats that can be hosed off. I also use large, washable incontinence pads on the floor surrounding the master closet box, just in case. The one in our master closet also sits on an appliance tray. My husband gave up his side of the master closet to accommodate that box for the cat who lives in our bedroom all of the time. I lined that side of the closet in plastic to keep the walls/shelving dust free, and hung a shower curtain to the entrance so litter dust doesn't make it over to my side. I scoop all of our boxes ALL THE TIME. I don't love having boxes in closets, but it works for now. I figure only about 7 or 8 more years of this and then we should be down to only 1 or 2 cats at most, and can accordingly reduce our litter boxes. Yippee!!