Hand Built Hide Box

Ok, so I have recently enrolled in a hand built pottery class, and I'm thinking for my first project, of making a moist hide for my crested gecko Zar.

Moist Hide - a hide box that has a bottom and is covered completely except for a small entrance hole and usually filled with moist paper towels, earth or moss to make a sauna effect for shedding and laying. It can be as simple as an old sour cream tub with a hole cut in it or an elaborate burrow.

I keep him in the living room, so I want this to be pretty and part of the decor of the room, a serious upgrade from the plastic tub he is now using.

He has some nice bamboo in his cage for climbing and I'm thinking of something to go with it.

So I'm thinking maybe a cute little pagoda like this. I really like the ornate roof, but this is my first time doing pottery ever and I wonder if this might be too much to take on at first?

Also since this one doesn't have any walls, I don't know what the walls should look like, slatted maybe?

I also love this little mud hut idea with the straw roof, it's super cute and so nature-y!

I'll update you when I know what I've decided and once I get pictures!

Ciao