The bar - progress this weekend

As I mentioned in my previous post, we just had a long weekend, and my brother and his family visited, and he decided we should get into my bar. All my "bar stuff" was still in boxes in the garage from when we had packed up at our previous home, so it was in "storage" from about January 2003, and very dusty. Unpacking it all was going to prove to be a real Xmas treat, cause there was a lot of stuff I had not seen for a long time, and some I had forgotten about.

I had already done some preliminary drawings / sketches, and so I just finalised the sizing, checked the cutting list, and we were off to Builders Warehouse (LIU). It's handy as they cut to size, and edge all the stuff as requested (small fee). Then back home, re cut some lengths and mark / drill / screw / install....

Before we started....

I had all my minature showcases in place already, and the fridge was more or less in place. Shelving was needed around the fridge, in the back of the alcove, and this was were we started.

And.... (that's my brother doing his stuff)...

And.... here's the basic framework

And now in place...

At this point it does not look too attractive....

We then, the next day, did the continuous shelving around part of the wall, and the wall plate with cup hooks for all the beer glasses.

Here's a taste....

However, we found that we still had a blank corner, and quickly designed a solution for that. We had the materials cut to size, width only, as the lengths we had not yet finalised, and set about designing as we went along. This was as successful as the previous parts.

The grand finale was unpacking the boxes, and getting all the stuff out, cleaned and displayed, and there we were, with a fully kitted bar, in one weekend. All that remains to be done is the bar counter, but that's another story.

View one... beer mug collection hanging above general stuff collection, above the final corner unit we built...

View two... showing as per view one, and the minature showcases as well as the dart board, and some ornaments hung wherever....

Full view.... it's a seriously busy bar, and it's all mine!!

Salagatle!