Home Bar Project
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Ron_Phelps
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Goddie another home bar thread....
First let me say you've made a FANTASTIC looking home bar. I could sit there for hours myself
Taking it AudioKarma centered here is my "home bar"
Rockola juke box company home bar that I've had for decades.
Not seen another one like this one. Seen a few Rockola home bars over the years but not another blond wood bar
First let me say you've made a FANTASTIC looking home bar. I could sit there for hours myself
Taking it AudioKarma centered here is my "home bar"
Rockola juke box company home bar that I've had for decades.
Not seen another one like this one. Seen a few Rockola home bars over the years but not another blond wood bar
Nice. My plan for now is to make a repurposed Maggie console part of the back bar. I couldn't get the preamp/tuner working, so the amp is now standalone and the console gutted. The sliding top doors to the turntable area, and resulting open space look like they'll fit either a small cooler-as-ice-chest, or be some other storage, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to convert the front speaker trim with fake hinges to become actual doors on hinges for wine storage. Currently trying to trim the built in shelf that part of the bar touches in new wood to match the bar.
Trim pieces for hiding the plywood in a Roman Ogee shape are non-existant for purchase as far as I can find. Called several millwork places in NC and looked at a bunch of others online. So, I'm making my own...A little tedious, but I'll get the shape I want vs settling for standard cove or quarter-round moulding. Decided to use yellow pine since I have to make 60-70 8' lengths to trim each of the wall squares and there would be a lot of waste (sawdust) from the routing and cutting (though that's going into the compost bin). Here's the simple setup on which I can make eack stick in 3-5 minutes. Not commercial speed by any means...
I'll tell ya what. In my dad's era, many in the family had a bar in the basement. During parties at our house, most of the ladies would stay upstairs in the living room, but everyone else (including my cousins) hung out downstairs around the bar. Dad had dozens of bottles of booze collected throughout the years--just about anything imaginable. Not only that, he had four or five round tables set up with chairs during the parties, so it was always the epicenter of the parties we had. (A couple of our Xmas parties didn't until about 4:45am, the last few survivors finally being dragged home by angry spouses. 
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We even had the Chianti bottles holding the candles, with the drippings of a few dozen colored candles on them. It was always hard to keep the young 'uns from picking the wax off of those bottles!
)We even had the Chianti bottles holding the candles, with the drippings of a few dozen colored candles on them. It was always hard to keep the young 'uns from picking the wax off of those bottles!
Finally getting some work done on this. Summer was busy, and my mom passed away, so I plodded along with this project as I could. Finally replaced the window that had been holding things up, and so I could finish the trim work. Then filling the nail holes, and sanding. Tonight I finished that and started the stain process... Bulls Eye Seal Coat mixed 1:1 with denatured alcohol for a 1# cut of shellac. Brushed that on one wall and then stained that wall with the initial color (gunstock). Two walls to go with that process and then back over it with a Gel stain to make it match the bar and tie everything together.
You mentioned basement previously but I see windows, one quite low.Is your house built on a hill or did I confuse myself somewhere?
Paneling looks spectacular BTW. Nice warm color, not too dark.
Pretty close to what I used for wainscot in our Dining Room.