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Game Day Party Bar

Game Day Party Bar

Game Day Party Bar Plans and Ideas Football season means one thing, PARTY! Every Sunday we don our favorite sports team garb and get juiced up from tailgate to post game...especially when they win! No matter what your team, the question is "where are you watching the...

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5 Reasons to Use Bar Plans

Five reasons to use our step-by-step bar plans: Building a home bar can be a fun and rewarding project. The web is full of "answer" and "how to" sites that will throw you just a few paragraphs and some photos on how to build a bar.  While this can be helpful to some,...

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Portable Tailgate Bar

the tailgater portable party bar can be built on a single afternoon and used for pre-game parties at your local football stadium.

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Find a Home Bar Contractor

Steampunk home bar themes are a relatively new trend in decor defined by merging classical design elements with industrial decor elements and materials. Check out Belgian site member Carl N’s cool Steampunk bar project and videos.

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Ted’s Woodworking Scam

Third-Party Review of the Ted's Woodworking Scam: For anyone who has run across the notorious "Ted's Woodworking - 16,000 Woodworking Plans" offer for $67, a word of advice: don't fall for it.  I purchased it a few years ago for the same reason one of my favorite wood...

Building a Summer Bar

Building a Summer Bar

Build a Summer Bar: Our site members like to start building a home bar when the temperature drops and leaves start to fall. The busy season for home bar enthusiasts goes right on through the coldest months of the year. Maybe nobody wants to bust a sweat...makes sense...

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Transporting Lumber and Building Materials

How to Transport Lumber and Building Materials for Home Projects After eagerly digging in to plans for a new project, you now need to come up with your bill of material and shopping list.  Before you hit the road for your favorite home center, be sure you have a good...

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Classic Basement Bar

Classic Basement Bar: Since 1997 we've seen the whole gamut of basement bar projects from your basic crate in an unfinished basement to extravagant theme bars with all the bells and whistles (Mr. Marks Dungeon Bar comes to mind). Many of the projects photos we are...

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Lumber Sizes

Explaining Lumber Size Confusion: So you bought your plans and see that a 2x4 stud is listed as 1.5" x 3.5"....what's up with that? Dimensional Lumber: Dimensional lumber sizes are called out in standardized dimensions of width and depth. The Nominal Size is what you...

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Man Wins Battle Against 160 Ounce Prime Rib

160 ounce Prime Rib Extreme Cut Saturday, March 21st, 2009 a Manitowoc man walked into Bob & Geri"s Black Otter Supper Club in Hortonville Wisconsin to take on the massive 160-ounce Extreme Cut Prime Rib in one of the wildest encounters of Man vs. Food ever to be...

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