What do you get for the aspiring woodworker, craftsman or person who has almost everything? A Home Bar of course! But “hold on!” you say,  “I don’t have a budget for something that expensive!”.  Never fear, you don’t have to buy the whole bar, just buy your favorite wood-butcher a lifetime  membership to the original Home Bar Construction Plan and design ideas site on the web, Easy Home Bar Plans

Give your favorite craftsman the gift of Home Bar Plans!

For the cost of a few beers at your local watering hole, you can give your handy man or woman eight complete home bar plans, but that’s not all. Membership includes a full Builder’s Forum to help novice and advanced builder’s alike share ideas and construction tips.

You also get access to our Builder’s Gallery with over 3500 photos of completed home bar projects built entirely by fellow members.

To top it all off, you get our exclusive Custom Home Bar Design tool to allow you to re-size select plans for your custom space requirements. You won’t find a better home bar construction site on the web.

For this holiday season, you can order the plans then give the instant plans download access info to your girt recipient using our pre-made gift card.
To get started just go to : Bar Plans Gift Card to download the card in either editable Word format or is fixed PDF format. Then just place your order by going to Order Home Bar Plans

Once the order is completed, just fill out the card with the system generated username and password and get ready to sit back and watch the smiles on their face. It’s the best gift they’ll get this year!

For complete membership information, please visiting the Easy Home Bar Plans website.

These days, economic worries seem to come and go like so much good & bad weather, but people are smart, right? and smart folks prepare for the worst by adjusting their way of life, or at least anticipating an economic downturn by keeping a watchful eye on global events fueled by oil prices. Imagine for a moment if the economy took a major turn for the worse, what would you do? What if you HAD to stay home? No more going out to dinner & drinks, no more vacation trips or liesurely afternoon drives and life in in general becomes so expensive, you’d have to tighten your belt & hunker down as you and your family ride out the storm. Think this notion is outlandish? What if gas really does hit four or five dollars per gallon? Things could get ugly, fast!

Let’s not forget about all the other doom and gloom predictions either. The nightly news and even the Discovery Channel is full of signs that perhaps we should be watching more seriously. Global warming, glacial melt, super tsunamis, asteroid impacts, super viruses, terrorism and let’s not forget George W. Bush hinting at World War III. Could it get any worse? If you were forced to stay home, no matter what the circumstance, wouldn’t it be nice to have all the (southern) comforts you need at hand?

Building a home bar, rec room  or home theater area is one way to start preparing for the future by reducing your travel costs, saving gas and saving the money you might otherwise spend on expensive drinks and entertainment, freeing up that money for essentials like food and home expenses, and let’s not forget, a home bar built underground in a basement area can double as a protective bunker in tough times. Sure there is a initial cost to building your own family room entertainment area, but consider it an investment in your home that will increase in value. 

A basement area is best, but upper levels or your home also serve as great areas for a private place to entertain. Of course basements have the added advantage of protecting you from tornadoes and other potentially deadly events. To take it to the extreme, you could even reinforce the ceiling to provide better protection, add a large walk in pantry for food and beverages. It’s not a far fetched idea to combine a home bar area with a fallout shelter like those of the 1950′s. The bottom line is to be prepared.  

Does this mean we should all build bars and become raging alcoholics? No, rather we can preserve happier times by bringing entertainment back inside the home the way it used to be; playing games, watching movies and connecting with family members. Once you begin into building a home bar or theater project, you’ll spend many years not only having fun entertaining, but also “adding flair” to your own private establishment.

So look around you, keep your eye on the news and start thinking about how that empty or unused space in your home, especially those with basements, can be transformed into your new home bar refuge and bunker, shielding you from an increasingly crazy world.

“I’ll tell ya what, when the big one hits, I’ll be relaxing in my home bar”. Order Plans Today – Before it’s too late!

This photo was sent in recently by Dave, a barplan.com member who explained “35 years ago, I got a D in shop class”, he said since that time he has attempted no other wood working projects, but with the help of the Easy Home Bar Plans website and a few friends, he built this great looking home bar complete with lighted bar back.  The project used all pine, because as Dave says, “I was too chicken to use expensive materials”, regardless the project turned out great. The arm rest was made using Black Walnut, but other options could be the use of Pre-fabricated Traditional Bar Moulding that can easily make it look like a professional job. 

Traditional Bar Moldings Traditional arm rest moldings in 4′, 6′ or 8′ lengths… Traditional Bar Moldings

The Easy Home Bar Plans site can help any woodworker, professional, novice or downright shop class dummy (sorry Dave) build a great looking home bar project. Click here for a few dozen examples of projects that our members have completed & Have Fun!