Mischief_Brewing
Well-Known Member
Since I'm likely to be asking a couple dozen more random questions relating to this build, I figured I had better start a thread showing the progress.
The project:
Our house came with a random cubby/closet that the original owners used as a TV cabinet. It's located in the wall between the living room and what we're using as our dining room. It's an artifact of the layout of the house and the fact that the chimney runs right up the middle of the house.
Here's the cabinet closed:
Here's what we've been using it for for the last year:
The plan is to build in cabinets on the bottom and top, and a bar top with 3 taps hidden to the left side. We're going to put double doors on the front that will open 180 degrees and will have shelves for holding the liquor bottles. Similar to the doors on this (http://www.wineenthusiast.com/howard-miller-sonoma-armoire-wine-cabinet.asp?AfID=CJ). The taps will be fed from a scrap-wood built kegerator in the crawl-space basement. The kegerator is going to be an insulated wood box attached to a free little dorm fridge a friend gave me.
Here's the pic of the basement space:
The wine cooler in the pic is my beer cellar fridge and will be moved to the side
Here are the pics of the first day's work on this, all demo and cleaning up:
(my daughter posing for a picture, but she refused to pick up a hammer for this one)
SWMBO doing some demo
There's already a hole to the crawl space!
More to come. I'm taking vacation from work next Friday and the following week to get this and some other home improvement projects moving, so hopefully I'll have some updates pretty soon!
Comments/criticisms always appreciated!
The project:
Our house came with a random cubby/closet that the original owners used as a TV cabinet. It's located in the wall between the living room and what we're using as our dining room. It's an artifact of the layout of the house and the fact that the chimney runs right up the middle of the house.
Here's the cabinet closed:
Here's what we've been using it for for the last year:
The plan is to build in cabinets on the bottom and top, and a bar top with 3 taps hidden to the left side. We're going to put double doors on the front that will open 180 degrees and will have shelves for holding the liquor bottles. Similar to the doors on this (http://www.wineenthusiast.com/howard-miller-sonoma-armoire-wine-cabinet.asp?AfID=CJ). The taps will be fed from a scrap-wood built kegerator in the crawl-space basement. The kegerator is going to be an insulated wood box attached to a free little dorm fridge a friend gave me.
Here's the pic of the basement space:
The wine cooler in the pic is my beer cellar fridge and will be moved to the side
Here are the pics of the first day's work on this, all demo and cleaning up:
(my daughter posing for a picture, but she refused to pick up a hammer for this one)
SWMBO doing some demo
There's already a hole to the crawl space!
More to come. I'm taking vacation from work next Friday and the following week to get this and some other home improvement projects moving, so hopefully I'll have some updates pretty soon!
Comments/criticisms always appreciated!