When is your hamster fetish out of control? When your hamster has a better crib than you do. When Apartment Therapy blogs about your rodent's abode–not yours. A girl named Martina made her hamster Sonic a cage out of an IKEA Expedit bookcase. I'm no expert, but this has got to be the dopest hamster house on the planet. Martina finds traditional cages “indescribably ugly” and too cramped for hamsters.

It even has a “deep space” for tunneling. Is it wrong to be jealous of a hamster? Go here for Martina's very thorough Flickr documentation of the hamster house construction process.

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