Coming out of the closet.

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cyborgmexican

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So I've been in my house for 9 months now and I'm itching for a bar. The previous owner put a closet in this indentation. For me it's worthless as a closet and in the perfect place for a small bar.

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Here is a quick mockup in Sketchup.

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I started demo this morning. Pretty simple, I just need to get some liquid nails off the brick.

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Here is what it looks like from the utility room. Need to take down some of the shelving and move the kreezer up against the wall. (The collar fell off the kreezer during the move)
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"Tom, It's Nichole. You need to come out of the closet so we can build a bar in it."
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If only they were still full... I'm going to cut the bottoms out, throw a light bulb in there, and hang them up as lanterns.

that will look great.. i'm assuming you are going to have the taps go through the wall? i had something like that in my old place with one tap through a small closet.. made people doubletake and wonder where the beer came from :)
 
krenshaw said:
that will look great.. i'm assuming you are going to have the taps go through the wall? i had something like that in my old place with one tap through a small closet.. made people doubletake and wonder where the beer came from :)

Yea. People will probably keep opening the mini fridge and cabinets looking for kegs.

Right now I'm trying to decide what countertop to go with. Either a cheap pre made Formica or just a thick wood slab.
 
The model home had a closet in this location. When we picked the same floor plan, we had it roughed in for this:


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It is going to change soon with a smaller fridge and full width counter. This room has an exterior door to the patio, so this is also my lab.
 
Spot for fridge and ash chute access bottom left. Mosaic tile backslash up to the bottom of the upper cabinets. Mirror and shelving between the two uppers. 6 taps right in the center.
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That cove is bigger than I perceived. Makes me want to rework ours. Can't do a tap wall, though. I'll have to do a tower from a fridge below. Keep us posted (and invited for the ribbon cutting)!
 
81" wide to be exact. I got the components for the counter top cut out yesterday, assembly today. Natural oak stain for the cabinets and a deep red Chardonnay for the top.
 
Joined the two pieces this morning with wood glue and a nail gun. After a few hours I sanded down the edges flush and applied the veneer, which was easy as hell and looks beautiful. Sanded the whole thing clean with 220, blew it off with the air gun and used a tack cloth to finish. Next was pre-stain and stain after a half hour of dry time.

In between all the steps I sanded all the cabinets. More staining to come on Tuesday.

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Cabinets stained and top polyurethane'd. The wood filler that I used for some of the imperfections between the top and the veneer is apparently not stainable, basically its showing up the same color as the wood used to be. The color difference is really showing up now.

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Was going to say it almost looked like in the first demo pictures that the carpet was cut in such a way as that closet was for access to the crawl space below your house...but since you are so far in I doubt you didnt notice and just covered your only crawl space access ....

Probably just indentations from whatever you had in there ... :)
 
Looking awesome man! Making me jealous over here. I need to get rid of some stuff in the basement so I can start a bar build... Guess I should finish my fermentation chamber first though!
 
Thanks guys. I really made a bunch of progress today. Mirror is up now. Nothing is plumbed, still need to tile the floor, install the shelves, trim, etc.
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Need to order 3 more Perlicks and get some other Michigan beer tap handles. New Holland Dragons Milk and Shorts Soft Parade.
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Shelving is in. Grout is done. I picked up a 6-way CO2 distributor used and 3 old Perlicks for 5 bucks a piece. Ill probably replace them eventually but couldn't pass up the deal. Finishing touches coming soon.

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Cyborgmexican,

I have pictured doing something similar to your set up with a keezer behind the wall. I have imagined bundling the beer lines with an extra loop of vinyl tubing to pump glycol through to keep the beer in the lines cold. Wrap the whole thing in some insulation and you would be all set. The beauty is that you can still open an close the keezer lid easily and very minimal mods are required to the freezer.

Adam
 
What a lovely bar in such a tight space!
Looks to me like your keezer can only hold 4-5 corny kegs max. Am I wrong? Are you planning on upgrading the keezer soon?
 
Cyborgmexican,

I have pictured doing something similar to your set up with a keezer behind the wall. I have imagined bundling the beer lines with an extra loop of vinyl tubing to pump glycol through to keep the beer in the lines cold. Wrap the whole thing in some insulation and you would be all set. The beauty is that you can still open an close the keezer lid easily and very minimal mods are required to the freezer.

Adam

I thought about cooling the lines but decided to try it out just running the lines open air. So far its fine, almost no foaming issues on the first pour. There is less than 2 feet outside the Kreezer so I should be good.

What a lovely bar in such a tight space!
Looks to me like your keezer can only hold 4-5 corny kegs max. Am I wrong? Are you planning on upgrading the keezer soon?


Actually it can hold 6 without a collar and 8 with a 6" collar. I only have 3 cornys right now. I have my house warming party coming up soon so I'm going to get a half barrel of Founders IPA and have that on tap along with 3 cornys of homebrew.
 
Any plans for a drip plate, or just going to leave it as the clean wood look?

This project turned out very nice, I must say. If I ever get the funds to redo my basement, I'm going to have to build myself a little bar like that...
 
Finally finished with construction. Just need some tap handles and chalk. I'm going to be spending way too much time down here.
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I put the collar back on so I could get two more cornys in with that 1/2barrel taking up all the other space.
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