Beyond the doors you step onto a balcony providing a veritable treetop view of the neighborhood. Wicker furniture provides a comfortable place to sit and talk, to look out over the city, to listen to the sounds of the city, or to relax at the end of the day. And, since cats and comfort are all but inseparable, a large spotted outdoor cat has taken on the thankless and never-ending job of quality control. This tireless soul selflessly tests the furniture for the proper degree of comfort, tests the sunbeams for a sufficient degree of warmth, tests the roof for the proper degree of resistance to rain, and ensures that the catnip plants show the proper degree of respect for the comfort quality control cat. And, having a very busy schedule, the quality control cat has no time to indulge in idle chit-chat or the human adulation so richly deserved; a half-glimpsed tail vanishing over the rooftop tends to be the most frequently permitted view granted to mere humans.