Cute! How big, how much? I need a door stop for every freaking door in my house because my cat closes doors and shuts himself in rooms.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/253724755/concrete-door-stopper-concrete-home?ref=related-9&ep_click=1

It will seem a bit crazy to..... umm, ship concrete from Poland, but I couldn't find anything else that had the features I wanted (forgot to mention that in one case they are for french doors that open out, so need to be ok outdoors).

Nice, Mtn!

Here is one of mine:

Love them-- perfect for a beach house and most especially your design aesthetic!

Really perfect for your beach house Mtn.

We have a cast bronze cat doorstop that a friend of our great-grandfather's made for him in Alsace (when it was part of Germany), and we inherited it from our Alsatian grandmother. My brother almost put in in our moving sale, but I retrieved it when a friend wanted to buy it, and I explained to her that it was a family heirloom from Europe, and since she was from Europe (Holland) she understood and let me keep it. I can't believe my brother was going to sell it! I'll post a photo of it later. It would be perfect for a house in which one's cat closes the doors!

Love that! I use animals. Have a Labrador holding a kitchen door open, a squirrel holding a bedroom door open etc.

Mtn, those are charming and practical as well: The rope makes it easy to pick up and move. Did you seriously have them shipped from Poland? You probably could have found someone to make them for you!

best years, how'd you train the squirrel to hold the door? And more impossibly, train the lab not to chase the squirrel?

Cindy, that's adorable and a great idea!

When my mom passed away I knew I wanted them, but didn't need bookends. Was happy to find a good alternate use.

Living in a mountain valley where breezes are channeled through so much of the time, good doorstops are must out here. That said, I can never find ones that look good, do the job well AND are tall enough to easily reach to quicly to move. Those cement ones would be fairly easy to make. Hmmmmm!

Those are perfect for your beach house Mtn.

In our beach house, I have 2 types of door stops. For a couple of doors, I use large rocks that I found, where else, at the beach. For another, I use a glass canister with a lid filled with smaller rocks from the beach. They all work great and except for the glass canister, cost nothing.

That zip code door stop is very cute!

Ooh, I have rocks from our beach, and I have glass canisters from the hotel restaurant I worked at years ago. Bingo! I might do rocks on the bottom, with shells filling out the top.

Then there's the meteorite from Michigan worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...

I like the simplicity. Wonder if the rope is internally tied to a bit of horizontal rebar, then the pour. Where I live the grommet surrounding the rope would have to be a good stainlesss steel or something non-rusting. The price on the Etsy ones seems very good as by the time one bought all the supplies ... this would be a fun project.

ETA: I just found a DIY video for making your own. They do a smaller one in this vid. For a larger heavier one I would figure out a way to reinforce the handle so it wouldn't pull out with a heftier load.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=02f9QK6pdIo

Hey, get one with your street number on it for outside your porch!

I too had the thought that the idea is what is interesting and execution seems easy. But I bought 4 of them and shipping was like $40 so not really so awful and I figured by the time I bought all the stuff and found just the right rope, etc.... meh. And i looked at other concrete fabricators and because it would be custom and one off, it would not be cheaper. YMMV. The zip code ones are really really cute.

LOL, bp, we were just up there for the long w/e and I took some more photos to try to plan out what we might do.

Mtn, I could easily see you making some of these to the customization of friends homes. Very cool gifts!

Here's my 19th Century German cat doorstop:

It might be a bit dusty in this photo - and this is our old front door, which would close by itself. The new door stays where you put it.

Cats would make door door stops. They can't bear a closed door.