The Dog House Update - Building The Bar

In the last update I told you about installing the Doors and windows

Wow!!
That seems like such a long time ago. But now it was time to build inside and most importantly it was time to build the bar.

I have been looking forward to this moment since we first had the idea. This had to be the main focal point and had to be right. With a lot of wood still left over from the inside walls, we had enough to cover the bar. All we needed was some more framing. A trip to a barn and a squeeze in the car, we had the wood and started mapping out where we wanted the bar.

Framing done and happy with the size we started cladding the front and sides using the remaining wood from the walls.

Now we just needed to top. After much debating about what and how to go about it we finally settled on a great find at our local diy store. Kitchen counter tops. Once again it was a squeeze into the car but we managed the 10 mile journey and back to The Dog House. This proved to be the hardest job so far.l and with some man cave like signs dotted around we now had the makings of a great bar.

I thought we would take a break at that point but my mate wanted to keep going( think he sees the light at the end of the tunnel) and lay flooring. We had decorated the rear wall with stone look wallpaper so we need something that went well with that. Settling for a cord grey carpet and installing lights and beer pumps into the bar, we had finally got the look...

The next update will be the seating and we have already created the area for them.

Until then I think I will take a rest from man caving and get back to writing