Bar plans? - Page 4

Nice, and I found that store. I kind of like this one.



But I was hoping to find one with a little more British feel. Maybe even one with the red box that swung open to reveal the phone?? Know what I'm talking about?

Well I'm certainly happy with the wainscot/paneling I "skinned" my bar with. I even used a cheap photo finish wainscot that looks sort of like leather, then put some stained trim to cover seams.

However, now that I'm done and gotten use to staining, I can't help but wonder what real wood, say bead board panels/wainscot would look like. If you are using a nice rich, dark stain, I can only imagine would be awesome.

Another thing with the cheap paneling anyway, is I already have one little scratch. Not a big deal, I can probably cover with a brown sharpie or something. But it would probably be more durable if wood/stain then able to touch up stain if needed.

Oh...also an update! I installed my sink yesterday! YEA!!! A buddy was in town and we went and got some beer and decided to take it on our self! I had called our plumber be he had been so busy he wasn't sure when he could come out and since we didn't even have rough in done, it was going to charge a little over $300 at least. So we went and bought about $60 worth of stuff and knocked it out in about 3 hours. And I didn't flood the house!!! I went surprisingly smooth. The wall I was putting the sink on had plumbing as the other side is the kitchen sink. And I figured I could do the supply lines easy enough, but I wasn't sure how to tie into the drain line and keep it all in the wall. But we actually had very little problem! That PVC pipe is slick. Pretty much like a jig saw puzzle. An angle here and angle there and it was done!

I'll try to post more pic's within a few days...

I ordered 30" bar stools for my bar...finally. I found a deal at JCPenney's and free shipping, so bought four to get started. These have backs and swivel. I will eventually get an additional two or three more plain stools with no backs to fill in when we have that many people.

But my question...I want to go ahead a buy a stool for the bartender work area. What size? Should I get 30" so will be sitting at the same height as guests or 24" so it will be lower to work on the back bar area? I'm thinking 30" as I can't imagine even pouring a beer while sitting down, so mostly would stand up to mix hand a drink then sit back down to have one with guests.

Well that is the main reason I didn't put a sink in my bar, I didn't want to "run" plumbing. However the wall behind the bar is common to my kichen. So I put in a free standing vanity type sink behind the bar and pretty much just lined it up just opposite to the kitchen sink. So everything there. I figure I will mainly use a sink to dump glasses in, wash hands, etc. Since the kitchen is right there I'm sure I'll just take stuff there to be really cleaned.

I need to post some new pic's so you can see.....

Well we bought them based on price. Wife and I could not agree. And if we were going to spend $300 or whatever on custom, we did not want to be rushed. So I ordered some close out of JCP's for $50 ea with free shipping. I see they are now up to $60 ea, but there is no longer a pic available.

If you look up item number IF781-9782F at the JCPenney site you will get the item, but no pic. I'm still looking.

They look sort of like this one only with a web back

http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/Product...=SearchResults

Very nice...should look great!

Bar sink pic's,

Here is what is looks like if you were walking by the bar or about to go behind the bar. The "window" above the sink is a pass thru to my kitchen and as you can see the sink is just on the other side of the opening. I still need to finish out this opening. (I believe originally the room where my bar is was open to the exterior for there really was a window in this pass thru. I simply removed the window when we did the kitchen).



A close up. As you can see I added Guinness Opener and have a matching "cap catcher" on the way.



An angle shot of what it looks like behind the bar.



This is a "pub" table I picked up. Actually is a close out outdoor "bistro" set from Target. But the colors and such match perfect. The Aluminum framing matches almost exactly with my granite bar top. As you can see I still have some work to do on electrical switches and plugs.

Yup metal. Which I'm not totally thrilled about. But again, I just wanted to get something to put in there and I will continue to look for what I really want. I had friends over last weekend (one of whom helped me install the sink) and it was such a pain to just stand around. We ended taking our beers in the media room which while not bad, is not really set up to just sit around and talk. It is set up to watch a movie!

They should have been here yesterday and doesn't look like will make it today. And since they are shipped directly from the dealer, I can't track the shipping on the JCP web site. I'll take pic's and report back once they come in....

My bar stools finally came in. I put one together this morning.

The good,

-match well in the room with black aluminum frame including "web" back
-small foot print, don't take up a lot of room
-swivel is really a "lazy susan" that can just spin with no "spring back". I like that

The bad,

-while they have a back, it is pretty low. OK for sitting but looks odd with the chair empty
-they are a low seat. They really stretch to call this a 30" chair. Again, not bad when sitting in it, but looks small just sitting there. I measure and including the cushion it is just barely 29.5", but then when you sit the cushion compresses by about 2.5 inches. Course I may have built my bar a little high
-seems a little easy to tip over when sitting in it. But I am a big heavy guy

Now remember I only paid $50 per chair with free shipping on these. So I got four of them for the price of one decent chair.

My bar will pretty easily seat 6 and maybe 7, but I didn't want that many chairs in there all the time. So my plan was to have four nice matching stools always sitting around the bar and then have 2-3 other in the garage or whatever available if I need them when having a party. So I think I will continue to look for four nice stools, and rotate these to the "fill in" chairs when needed.

I'll try to post a pic later once I get them all built.

That is awesome! I'm so jealous of you guys that have basements, all that room!

I like the glass in the middle of the panels. Like your lights. I had some lights picked out at Lowes and they went on clearence, now I can't find them....

As promised, pics of my new bar stools. To recap, could not agree with wife on bar stools, especially with the money we were looking at. Was tired of no where to sit, so found these on close out from JCP's for $50 ea w/free shipping.

See my pro's and con's in my prior post. The height actually works about perfect. And the overhang is just fine. Sure a little more room would have been better, but I didn't want to take up that much space in the room.