"Our house is a very very fine house": the song, the meaning, and yes, we made a doormat about it

September 22, 2026
"Our house is a very very fine house": all weather doormat

It's a lyric before it's anything else. "Our house is a very, very, very fine house" opens the second verse of "Our House," the 1970 song Graham Nash wrote for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young after moving in with Joni Mitchell. Thi sis too cute to believe, but he wrote it the same afternoon he bought her two cats!

"Our house is a very very fine house" cats doormat

Two cats in the yard, a fire lit, a simple picture of a home two people built together. Fifty-some years later it's still the line people type into Google when they can't place where they've heard it, or when they want to caption a photo of their own overcrowded, cat-run household.

Which is exactly what our version is for. We took the lyric at face value — and put it on a doormat for anyone whose living room the cats have fully annexed.

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