Fall and winter are some of the best seasons for stay at home entertainment. Thanksgiving and the Christmas holiday is made brighter when you can celebrate around your own bar. When you decide to build a bar, you can take your chances guessing on the right bar dimensions and possibly waste a lot of expensive construction materials, but having a plan to follow is definitely the way to go.
sample home bar project built by one of our members
Finding the right plans is not very difficult, but there are a few things to avoid. Free sites are fine if you want the basics, but these sites are usually just there to lead you into a swam of irritating ads and they only give you a very small amount of information.
The Easy Home Bar Plans site is an entire home bar construction builder’s resources site. It includes many core designs as well as our Builder’s Gallery of over 3500 photos of bars built by our members, which is a great place for cool design ideas and plan variations.
Our site also gives you access to our Builders Forum where you can share ideas and get help if you get stuck. The forum spans nearly 10 years of Q&A on building bars and draft keg boxes using commonly available parts, saving hundreds of dollars over store bought kegerators. If you already have a kegerator, it can be easily fitted into your project using our Custom Home Bar Designer which is an easy to use web based bar resizing tool.
There are a few copy cat sites out there, and one in particular copies our entire site concept, but is sorely lacking in content, so even though you can save a few dollars joining that site, you’re much better off joining our original bar construction site.
All plans are delivered instantly and are printable any PC printer. Your one time membership payment gives you lifetime access to the site and access to all current and future plan sets.
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On occasion, our barplan.com members really impress us with their handiwork. This unique curved oak bar rail and bar was built by one of our more experienced and adventurous woodworking members to allow his guests to see each other without having to suffer neck strain. It’s a great idea, but most importantly the final result is a beautiful bar that is sure to impress everyone. Although we try to keep our designs as simple as possible, we are currently working up several variations of curved and round bar designs.
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After many months and many delays mostly due to extreme weather, we are expecting delivery of the main Eze Breeze patio windows and doors tomorrow. Our local dealer, Nevilles Inc. of Green Bay has been very helpful so far, visiting our work site to take measurements for the custom made windows. The first order includes a 6 foot glass patio door with bronze finish, a 36″ wide Cabana door with the four pane Eze Breeze sliders and a total of eleven Eze Breeze window panels, two 60″ x 36″, one 60″ x 38″ and eight 72″ x 34″ panels. The only remaining work will be the triangular transom windows above the main windows. The transom windows will also be made with the flexible Eze Breeze window glazing.
Why did we choose to go with Eze Breeze Windows? The biggest reason is cost, but we also needed performance to fit with a three season room. Our entire order for windows and doors (less the transoms) was just under $4000. The transoms will add about $300 to the job. We really don’t need high performance insulation, just a way to block the wind and rain and to keep out the bugs. The added upside with these windows is the flexible glazing material that is virtually unbreakable and easy to replace if needed. The other big advantage is the ability to open each window to 75%, giving us more air flow when needed. This is not possible with any of the glass window system we considered.
eze breeze flexible window glazing
We also have a lot of birds in our backyard and over the past few years many have crashed & burned into our glass pation doors. The Eze _breeze window glazing is bird friendly providing a measure of “give” to absorb shock. We also won’t have to worry about fisbees, golf balls or baseballs crashing through our windows.
Stay tuned and we’ll post more photos as the windows are installed.
Project started March 2oth 2010 – number of workers – one (excluding roofing shingle installation which was performed by a local roofing contractor).
On occasion, our barplan.com members really impress us with their handiwork. This unique curved oak bar rail and bar was built by one of our more experienced and adventurous woodworking members to allow his guests to see each other without having to suffer neck strain. It’s a great idea, but most importantly the final result is a beautiful bar that is sure to impress everyone. Although we try to keep our designs as simple as possible, we are currently working up several variations of curved and round bar designs.
