dtbritt
Active Member
So I redid my home bar some time back, and never bothered to post picture or details about it. My buddy Andrew (ajwillys) has finally convinced me that I should throw a few photos up, so here goes. First, I'll give a brief description of what I did.
Here's what was at my house when I moved in: A 13x11 work shed, done rather nicely. The inside was unfiinished; plank flooring and bare studs. The outside, though, was done up with the same siding as the house. It had french doors and three windows, as well as attic-type storage space.
I actually went through two iterations of a home bar. The first was sort of a makeshift deal, and it's not worth going into a lot of detail on it. But the long and short of it is that I wired the place up for cable, put in insulation, wrapped the walls in plastic, put up drywall on the wall and ceiling, put down laminate flooring, and built a nicer bar.
The bar itself is 11 feet long, all wood. Behind the bar I have a dorm fridge for bottles, and beside that a fermenting fridge. It won't hold much, but it can hold a Tru Brew bucket and a carboy, so I can do two at once. Then there's an empty space where I keep the C02 tanks for the keezer. Finally, there's the keezer. I use a 20 cubic foot freezer chest. I have a few manifolds to split up the CO2 line out to ten couplers. I can only fit 10 1/6th barrels though...if I move up to 1/2 barrels I have to reduce the number I have on tap. These lines feed into a stainless steel tubular tower mounted on the bar, for which I somehow managed to pick up 10 Perlick faucets without my wife catching me and beating the crap out me.
Now that I'm done being a windbag, here are a few photos, starting with the old home bar and followed by renovation and final photos.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37441&id=1579752535&l=70db69e5ea
Here's what was at my house when I moved in: A 13x11 work shed, done rather nicely. The inside was unfiinished; plank flooring and bare studs. The outside, though, was done up with the same siding as the house. It had french doors and three windows, as well as attic-type storage space.
I actually went through two iterations of a home bar. The first was sort of a makeshift deal, and it's not worth going into a lot of detail on it. But the long and short of it is that I wired the place up for cable, put in insulation, wrapped the walls in plastic, put up drywall on the wall and ceiling, put down laminate flooring, and built a nicer bar.
The bar itself is 11 feet long, all wood. Behind the bar I have a dorm fridge for bottles, and beside that a fermenting fridge. It won't hold much, but it can hold a Tru Brew bucket and a carboy, so I can do two at once. Then there's an empty space where I keep the C02 tanks for the keezer. Finally, there's the keezer. I use a 20 cubic foot freezer chest. I have a few manifolds to split up the CO2 line out to ten couplers. I can only fit 10 1/6th barrels though...if I move up to 1/2 barrels I have to reduce the number I have on tap. These lines feed into a stainless steel tubular tower mounted on the bar, for which I somehow managed to pick up 10 Perlick faucets without my wife catching me and beating the crap out me.
Now that I'm done being a windbag, here are a few photos, starting with the old home bar and followed by renovation and final photos.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37441&id=1579752535&l=70db69e5ea
