Hockey Bar
Hockey Bar Theme: If Hockey is your sport, then these Hockey bar projects will be just your style. They were built by our site members and featured here for your enjoyment. These bars use interesting decoupage techniques that we discuss in another post related to...
Touchscreen Lighted Bar Top
Interactive Bar Top Lighting There is a very cool way to make a lighted bar top for your bar; if you have a few grand extra cash lying around. The unique lighting design incorporates an interactive touchscreen surface technology that allows you to touch the bar top to...
Coca Cola Themed Home Bar
Coca Cola Kegger Bar Every now and then a project built by one of our site members really catches my eye. This Coca Cola themed kegger bar was built by a site member and is a perfect example of using the plans to their fullest. The general idea was to match the Coca...
Flickerstrip for Home Bar Lighting
Flickerstrip LED Lighting Concept. A bright new product named Flickerstrip is now in development. This programmable LED device displays animated lighting sequences or “lightworks” that can be used for a wide variety of lighting applications. The lights are...
Backyard Bar Plans
The Deviant Crow Home Bar
Convert your Freezer to a Keezer
Freezer to Keezer Instructions: Here’s a project anyone can do and you don’t need plans, just parts. In case you are wondering what a Keezer is, it’s a chest freezer that is modified to hold kegs of beer. The biggest trick is to tame the powerful...
O’shea’s Neighborhood Pub
A friendly host makes for a fun bar – a functional construction plan can make your home bar great! This site member started this impressive project with the EHBP-04 L-shaped wet bar design with a slightly shorter side leg (facilitated by the use of the CHBD) and...
38 Flavors Saloon
38 Flavors Saloon Keg box expert, kegmaster Bruce M. writes: “I have attached some pictures of my bar. I built a 17′ L shaped keg bar with a back bar made out of a 23 cf freezer converted to a keg box on my deck. The front bar has 32 cf of cold storage for...
Cleaning Beer Lines
What’s better than sitting at home in isolation under “self quarantine”? We have the solution, a Quarantini! The Quarantini is a fun martini recipe with an added boost of vitamins to supplement your immune system in this global time of crisis.
Memphis Tigers Mini Bar
Memphis Tigers Tailgate Party Bar These guys are really into tailgating! Not the kind where you drive up someone’s bumper but rather where you park the truck, drop the tail gate and throw a party. These Memphis Tiger’s fans are livin’ large with this...
The Monkey Bar
Welcome to Barrett’s Monkey Bar / No Banana Hammocks Allowed. “I made a deal with my wife, if I got rid of the hot tub I had to build a bar. I went on line and found barplan.com and became a member. I downloaded the EHBP-04 L shaped wet bar and modified...
Autumn Bar Themes
Sample Home Bar Photos – Autumn Bar Themes: As Fall arrives, we enter the hunting, the Thanksgiving holiday and football seasons. These projects reflect that seasonal feeling by using related materials and decor. Fall themed bars if you will, are usually built...
Summer Bar Themes
Summer tiki bar themes: Not surprisingly, any bar design can be decorated as a tiki bar just by adding thatch and bamboo trim. Here are some tiki variations that our members have built using a combination of our core plans and design ideas found in the Forum &...
Harley Bars
Capture the Biker Bar Atmosphere at Home: As a lifelong motorcycle aficionado and Harley owner, I can definitely appreciate the motorcycle friendly bar atmosphere. Up here in Wisconsin, where there’s a bar every 1/4 mile the majority of bars are...
Wine Lovers Pub
Wine Rack and Beer Keg Tapper Here’s a photo sent in by a site member some time ago. If the owner of this excellent bar pub would like to step forward, please feel free to post a comment below. I would love to get some more detail photos on the wine rack, as...
Cocktail Bar Plans
Creating a cocktail bar design: Typical home bar projects start out with a few friends and a few rounds of cocktails. A wrinkled napkin becomes the palette for a rough draft but missing a few small but essential details. On a home bar, there can be surprisingly many....
A Bar of One’s Own
What’s better than sitting at home in isolation under “self quarantine”? We have the solution, a Quarantini! The Quarantini is a fun martini recipe with an added boost of vitamins to supplement your immune system in this global time of crisis.
The Dungeon Pirate Bar
The Dungeon: Pirate Theme Bar construction and creative mods by Mark. M. This awesome Pirate themed bar covers an entire basement!Built by site member Mark M. this masterpiece is ready to quench the thirst of any wench or Buccaneer. Mark’s cool nautical theme...
Golden Ratio in Bar Design
Introducing The Golden Ratio In mathematics, two quantities are said to be in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. The figure on the left illustrates this geometric relationship. This holds true in...
Basement Bar Plans and Designs
Building a Bar in Your Basement For the majority of our members, the best-unused space in their home is the basement. In most cases, renovating basement space is relatively easy, especially new construction. However, older basements can pose a challenge. The first...
Hamms Scenorama Beer Sign
View the Classic Hamms Scenorama Beer Sign: My childhood is filled with memories of sitting in a bar up on the chain of lakes near Eagle River Wisconsin. Sure! they let kids sit in the bar and drink frozen cans of soda while Ma & Pa had a few cocktails. One thing...
Rustic Style Home Bars
Rustic Texas Style Barn Wood Bar Variation This western style home bar theme featuring rustic re-purposed barn wood home bar was built using the EHBP-02 Basic L-shaped bar design. The L-shape home bar can be built in one weekend using basic tools and does not require...
Home Bar Construction 101
Home Bar Construction Overview: Other than coming up with a solid, workable design , it’s not difficult to build a home bar. We can help save time and scrap by providing a working set of plans to get you started in the right direction. There is no better feeling...
Finding a Kegerator
Finding a Home Bar Kegerator If you like beer, then you’ll love having your beer on tap, fresh and cold, any time you like! Keg Beer prices have risen in the past 10 years…gone are the days of the $40 half barrel (late 70’s) and today a half barrel...Spring Bar Theme
Spring Bar Theme: Once you’ve endured three months of cabin fever, you’re ready to drop the tools and get outside on the first sunny day. Warmer weather, longer days and bright sunshine might keep you out of the shop, but your design can reflect those...
Winter Bar Theme
Winter Bar Theme Projects Winter is time for warmth and holiday entertaining! A home bar is the best place to be for the holidays and with nothing but cold & snow outside, there’s no better time to build your project. Here is a sample of “winter bar...
Tiki Bar Styles
Tiki Style Bar Design Building a tiki bar is purely a matter of placing the bar installation outdoors and decorating a traditional bar with bamboo and thatch. You can also install the bar inside your home, however, as an obvious fire hazard. We do not recommend using...
Nightlife Bar Styles
Home Bar Styles One of the first considerations in starting your bar project is to either work around a specific bar theme or stick with a classic home bar. This page can point you to sections of this site that may offer some bar style starter ideas. Seasonal Bar...