Posted: November 23, 2009 | Author: O'Shea Shenanigans | Filed under: Bar Build, General | Tags: How to build a basement bar |
Someone has been spying on me:
Hey! Umm...What are you building in there?
- Can you tell me? Please..?
Can you guess just what the hell I am building here?
Plexiglass.
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Posted: November 17, 2009 | Author: O'Shea Shenanigans | Filed under: Bar Build | Tags: How to build a basement bar, Things I learned building a bar |
- True love is your significant other agreeing to have an entire room converted to an Irish Pub…than joining in on the design process.
- On a regular interval, you seriously ponder as to how much of a gap there really is between “good” and “good enough”
- Drywall dust in coffee doesn’t seriously affect the overall taste
- Electrician that works for beer is priceless
- A Sawzall really does cut “anything”.
- That ‘anything’ usually turns out to be the bar part you just finished building the week prior. DOH!
- Placing your hand down on carpet tack strip hurts. Alot.
- Kneeling on a carpet tack strip renders a big 35 year old grown man into a screaming 8 year old girl.
- Somewhere, somehow, at least one of the 2×4′s in the room has your blood on it.
- This matches with the other 14 that have sweat drops from the top of your head.
- Bar Rail should be stained as soon as installed
- New fun game at O’Shea’s Neighborhood Pub: Guess the number of drip stains on the bar rail! Closest correct number wins!
- Blue painter’s tape on the floor causes you to pause, sit and stare at it.
- Even though you have no bartop whatsoever installed, you will still pour a beer and pretend the plywood is a nice bartop.
- Bartop is really not a good place to store tools.
- Pure joy is best defined as the UPS guy pulling into your driveway with a delivery of new A/V equipment.
- A regular upright household vacuum cleaner is the single most efficient way to blow drywall dust into every nook and cranny of your house
- You will always buy about a half pound of screws less than what you figured
- The local hardware store clerk will begin to ask you if it’s “On Account?”assuming you are now a contractor…
- Sanding the bar rail takes alot longer than originally thought. Like a year.
- Sanding the bar rail after midnight is a challenge
- Going to work at 5:00 am the following day is even more challenging!
- Cutting drywall is easy. It’s the putting -it -back -like- it -was part that is hard.
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Posted: April 28, 2009 | Author: O'Shea Shenanigans | Filed under: Bar Build | Tags: How to build a basement bar |
So while home taking care of Maddie and Laurie in Texas taking care of bizz-ness, I decided to get some more bar work done. Here are some pics:
bartop and drink rail
pvc pipe with insulation wrapped around it for the space between kegerator and bartop
behind the bar, & drink rail
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Posted: February 13, 2009 | Author: O'Shea Shenanigans | Filed under: Bar Build | Tags: How to build a basement bar, Kegerator |
Yes beer fans, it is time for a new bar build update! What is all the hubaloo about? Like Charles Daniels said to the Devil in Georgia:”Sit right back down in that chair, and I’ll show you how’s its done”…well right now I have nothing to show you, but to tell you. I got the green light to order the Kegerator! [Enter Marching Band; balloons and confetti falling from ceiling] The order will be placed on Monday. Next up: Plumber. oh, first I have to install the kegorator so I can drink while watching the plumber.
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Posted: September 26, 2008 | Author: O'Shea Shenanigans | Filed under: Bar Build | Tags: House Projects, How to build a basement bar |
So here is a picture of how far I have gotten.
Side View
The black box seen is a refridgerator with the door taken off, it will keep the keg cool. The area on the right will be boxed in and insulated. Next up is the electrician to run the lights and sockets.
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