Dinger's Sports Bar/ Media-Poker Room - Page 2

And give up my Sig 2s Design wise in walls would look better but would be losing to much in sound quality. I didn't want lose the room space by framing out the wall to cover up my fronts.

I too was worried how the acoustics would be with all the wood but it sounds great. The fluted pieces help out and plus it's not a enclosed room.

As for taking out bedrooms 5 and 6 I could of made a dedicated H/T in the area I have my screen now and move the poker table into a bedroom. As I said before I wanted an area for the guys to hang out and watch the game and an area for just me and the wife to watch movies.

My 1st design idea I was going to try and make it look like any sports bar you see today with neon beer signs and huge posters on the wall. It took the builder 18 months to build and about a year before we finished the upstairs before we could work on the basement. With all that time to design and redesign we came up with the idea of doing a 40's- 50's style pub. We went with doing 2 walls all wood and kept the decor simple with old black and white baseball photos. Being from upstate New York and now living in Arizona you don't see many of the "old fashion" style bars that I love. So thanks for everyones comments about drinking single malt and smoking cigars. That's the exact feeling and look I was going for. If only now my wife would let me smoke cigars inside I'd be set

My project has slowed down a bit since I got the room functional. The last month I've been spending my free time either at a spring training game or watching college basketball. Progress slowed once the kegerator was installed. I did get a few signs made up. The 1st is above my stairs going down to my basement into the bar area the 2nd photo is of the mirror that will some day be behind the bar. I hope to get the back bar done soon.



No I am not a Notre Dame fan but thought it was funny


My Dingers logo that will behind the bar

for the "Drink" sign a company make it for $20. For my logo I have a friend who owns a marketing company here locally and he had one of his graphic artist to make my logo after many failed attempts to do it myself

OMG I am drawing out the 1st time posters on this thread. The stain we used was a Sherman Williams commercial grade dye. 2 coats and then a laquer and a finish.

For the people that have sent me the PMs I am sorry I took so long to get back to you. I never notice I have a PM unless I check my spam email account.

For the life of me I don't know why they don't build more. They always said the ground was too hard. I have never turned on my a/c or heat in my basement and it is always cooler or warmer in my basement than upstairs.

here is a nice photo of a hole in the desert dirt

for the people who sent a pm thank you for the kind words. I think I replied to all but the fact is that the progress is slow. Our jobs and now vacations have slowed the finish of Dingers. I did get the poker table chairs today and after staining and finish we will be set on that. Also the back bar shelves and cabinet doors have been done for some time just not installed. We are 90% done. last 10% is the hardest

About 10% of the homes in my Sub-division have basements. 5-6 years ago hardly any builder had the basement option. Now almost all of them do. They have grown in popularity out here but most people opt for the traditional 2 story home. But then again some people live out here without a pool. Now that is crazy!!!

BTW Frorule you basement rocks.

Well we got a little bit more work done. We finally hung the back shelving units and some of the cabinet doors. It is starting to now look like a bar. I mocked it up a bit to give a better idea of the finished product. We still need to install the lights and glass shelves. Still a long ways to go.

Thanks Randy. I have a long ways to go to catch you in football helmets. My 1 to your what 32?

Sorry didn't mean to short change you Don't worry I'm sure Favre will retire some day and maybe his jersey will be in my collection I am thinking of starting. I've always wanted the "Opps I should of retired" jersey collection. Like MJ with the Wizards, Montana with KC, Emmitt with the Cards, Willie Mays with the Mets, and Rice with the Raiders. So many others too.

Well looks like I lost a page of post on my thread. Oh well. I guess I will repost the updated pics I posted last week