Bar and bar stools for second row seating

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I plan to build mine. I believe BigMouthinDC built his as well. Maybe he'll chimne in here with some pics.

Tom

I copied Peter's Metropolis concept (not certain if I have a link). BuffBaker has a great looking setup. Mines not finished yet.

Here is his photo album with construction pics.

http://public.fotki.com/jeffbaker24/bar__home_theater/

"... making it up as you go?"

See my #1 regret. I built the base cabinet for my bar back without a drawing. I figured, it's just a fairly basic low bookshelf-type cabinet-- I don't need to do a drawing. Less than halfway through, I noticed the errors, but it was too late to fix them without scrapping my work (and money spent on materials). A drawing would have prevented the errors (and I enjoy drawing plans almost as much as building), but I didn't feel like taking the time to do such a basic drawing. Now, nobody notices these basic design errors (they're not functional errors), but I see them everytime I go behind my bar.

For drawing plans, it helps if you have the barstools already. That way, you can sit in them with a tape measure and figure out your basic dimensions. Everything else will follow naturally, depending on the style you want (and your shop skills).

BuffBakerGA's was the standard by which I was inspired to design mine.

One note though, if you're doing it behind only one row of seating, it's going to look a little off-kilter if you do the standard 40"+ bar height, with the row right in front of it at floor level.

Most of us that have done the bar back have done it as the THIRD row of seating, overlooking a 2nd row that's up on risers.

You could get away with a regular countertop height since yours will just be the 2nd row of seating.

A lot of bar stools come in 2 flavors, 30 inches and 24 inches.

The shorter would probably the right height for a bar behind a single row.

Here is a good height guide:

http://www.bar-stools-barstools.com/scripts/height.asp