It was a good weekend to Build a Bar!

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Start building the bar for my basement. I'm hoping to have it installed and ready by next weekend(Superbowl). Got a lot done today only had time for a couple pics. More to come!

I'm constructing the bar itself in my garage.
It's 7' long

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

O and I forgot to mention the best part....all the materials were FREE. My dad is a carpenter and donated all the wood and the nice solid Oak door for the bar top.

 

[bendavanza]

gotta love free materials!
good luck with your build

 

[earlytimes]

I'm about to build my bar as well, so I'm interested and reading up a lot on what others have done. Question - what is the height to the top of the bar? Or perhaps more importantly, what is the distance from the top of the bar to the seats on the barstools? I think I'm going to make mine about 42" or about 12" above the seats on the stools.

Good luck getting it done by next weekend!

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

I'm about to build my bar as well, so I'm interested and reading up a lot on what others have done. Question - what is the height to the top of the bar? Or perhaps more importantly, what is the distance from the top of the bar to the seats on the barstools? I think I'm going to make mine about 42" or about 12" above the seats on the stools.

Good luck getting it done by next weekend!

I made my height about 41 3/5" plus 1" for the top. Also i found it a lot easier to frame with 2x3 instead of 2x4. Good luck and Thanks.

 

[Limited Visibility]

Looking good, excited to see it when its done. Good luck on getting it done for the big game... go cards

 

[Limited Visibility]

so... any new pics:rockin:

 

[mmb]

so... any new pics:rockin:

+1

I love bar builds!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Kudos to you and good luck with your project.

I weatherstripped my garage door.

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

I'll be posting more pics tonight after work.

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

As promised...

And a sweet Killian's Sign I found out behind a local bar!

Only thing its missing is the keypad to change the scroll. Anyone know where I could get my hands on one?

 

[Limited Visibility]

I have looked all over online, no such luck for a keypad for the text, bar looks good though!

 

[DharkMeadBrewer]

I don't know about the key pad to change the scroll, but I've seen the scroll display on sale at a few different places (namely sams). If you can't find a key pad for it you could always replace it with another.

 

[GranillaNutz]

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u may be able to hack it

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Was up at 6am this morning out in the garage working on the bar, go the whole thing sanded and the back side painted. I'm currently working on the picture frame molding for the front side. Its going to be a glossy black on top of red oak veneer. Pics will be posted later. Hopefully with the progress i'm making i can have the whole thing polyed and ready by tonight/tomorrow morning.

 

[eschatz]

Mohr pics pleez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Looks great!

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Got the main part of the bar down into the basement, also the Keezer. Need to Hit the Top with one more coat of poly in the morning and add the molding to the front of the bar. It'll do for tomorrow but I have lots more to do after that.
Here's so more pics...

Decided to display some of my beers from my cellar. Notice the hop garland that I snagged from a Sam Adams booth at a recent beer tasting

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Whats on Tap for the Game

 

[Jewrican]

Left Hand mmmmmmmmmmmm! Looks good.

 

[alex_wilkosz]

pics of the top and front done? did u make it today?

PS--u deserve a nice cold one for gettin that done in a week

 

[TeufelBrew]

Nice setup! Looks like the perfect place to go relax just about any time. Keep feeding the pics as you go, it's really encouraging for when all the kids are out of the hosue here and I get the basement to myself.

 

[llazy_llama]

Ah man, all these amazing looking home bars make me want to build my own.

Or buy a house, for that matter.

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Got it done!!!!! Christened it with a pint of Dogfish Head's Red & White

 

[Tusch]

Wow looks good, really like the contrast in color from the molding you added.

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Bumpin this thread back up, did more work on the bar this weekend. Its raining here in NJ so it was either brew or work on the bar. And working on the bar requires less prep and cleanup! I'll post pics later

 

[CenCalWorthog]

Looks good, nice work.

 

[Araxi]

Nice job, I like it

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

Added some more molding, got some bar stools(craigslist!), hung the mirror with hop garland, and added the hanging lights.

 

[Shoeby]

Very Nicely Done!!! Love the contrasting molding on the front of the bar.