Water Bed Bar
Water Bed Bar & Recycled Romance: Please excuse the title, but after reading this great story, you’ll understand… Remember when waterbeds were all the rage? The revolutionary wave action made for endless nights of fun for those surfing the crest of...
Angled Home Bar Design
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.
Rustic Log Cabin Bar
Rustic Log Cabin Bar: Barplan.com member Bill Y. of PA has been diligently sending me his completed bar photos for several weeks now. With a recent server migration, the holidays and countless site upgrades and work, I had not yet had the chance to even open his photo...
Gothic Bar Back Design
Gothic Bar Back Design Breakdown: Bar Back Design is not as complicated as it might first appear. Break any cabinet structure down to it’s component, primitive shapes, then face trim and add applique’s, corbels and a rich finish. The Gothic style bar back...
Bar Back Ideas and Photos
Bar Back Ideas and Photos Back Bar design starts with a theme in mind. Keeping your project within budget will decide what materials you can afford, either real or imitation. Use cabinets or no cabinets at all. Always use tempered glass shelves to allow light from...How to Install Bar Rail
How to Install Bar Rail: This brief video will show you how to properly miter cut and install Chicago style hardwood arm rail molding. This stuff is wicked expensive, so do it right the first time. A single one foot section is about $12.50 depending upon wood species....
Fish Tank Bar
Adding a Fish Tank to your Bar: Staring into the bubbles of your beer glass is fine, but adding a fish tank to your bar is better. The soothing bubbles and cruising fish create a mesmerizing backdrop you’ll stare at for hours. Many of our members have added...
Sturdy Bar Plans
Sturdy Bar Plans – “I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know how pleased I am with your bar plans!!! It was very easy to follow the directions and with the photo illustrations it made clarity a snap. I spent just under $500.00. again thanks’...
Easy and Rewarding Bar Project
Easy and Rewarding Bar Project: “I had a great time building this bar and I am speaking for anyone out there that has never worked with wood before when I say that it wasn’t hard and it was very rewarding. The plans are very detailed, and the encouragement...
Beginner’s Luck Bar
Beginner’s Luck? “Hi Guy’s, I purchased the plans off your web-site. When I tell you I have never made anything in my life, I am not kidding. I had never used a table saw or a circular saw before I took on this project. I found your plans to be very...
Wedding Bar Beauty
Wedding Bar Bliss: Comment from the builder: “On January 2, 2005, I began to build the bar. A minor health issue (he cut his finger with a saw…he included the photo below) slowed progress but on June 5, 2005, the bar was opened to celebrate my...
Jet’s Bar
Jet’s Bar: Comment from the builder: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your site. It was invaluable to the construction of my bar. Even though it has been completed for a couple months (and has seen it’s fair share of...
Customer Service
Customer Service: “Thank you for your help all day today I am happy with the rest of the plans for the design. But most of all you have been there responding to me all day today. I know you have other things that you are working on and I am not the center of...
Packer Bar Themes
Packer Fan Bar Face it football fanatics, no team in the league is more loved and storied than the Green Bay Packers. The fans love to party and smack talk with their rabid rivals. Nevertheless, Packer fans love their rivals too, that’s just how we roll. So,...
LED Home Bar Lights
Home Bar LED Lighting Modern LED lighting is the ideal solution for creating the perfect home bar or man cave atmosphere. LED lighting product have become very affordable and deliver long life reliability and low power consumption. Multicolor LED lighting kits are the...
Advantages of LED Home Bar Lighting
LED Home Bar Lighting: Bar back lighting sets the mood for your entire bar area. New LED lighting devices are highly superior to old rope lights and x-mas strings. The long life of LED lights means you will likely never have to tear down your bar back to fix burned...
The Dan Cave
The Dan Cave – Basement Bar – Before and After: Building a Bar in your basement is probably the most logical way to transform that damp, dingy and literally scary basement space into a warm, inviting living area. First, learn to prepare your basement for...
No Basement Bunker in Tornado Alley?
No Basement Bunker? Tornadoes have been around since the dawn of time. Residential housing not so much. It’s no surprise that tornadoes regularly strike populated areas. Today there are many more people spread across the land that it’s inevitable these...
Ted’s Woodworking Offer is a 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...
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...
Lumber Sizes
Explaining Lumber Size Confusion: So you bought your plans and see that a 2×4 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....
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...
Recycle Aluminum Cans
Stopping Wasteful Ways – Recycling Aluminum Cans With fuel prices reaching all-time records, many people are beginning to complain that energy costs are just too high. Well, it’s really no big surprise that energy costs continue to skyrocket when people...
Cool Basement Bar
Beat Summer Heat in a Cool Basement Bar: With summer just around the corner, your thoughts after a dreary winter will no doubt be focused on getting out of the house. But when summer temps finally takes their toll, the air conditioner comes on as you retreat from the...
Staycation – Vacationing Close to Home
Staycation 12 years ago… May 2008: Just a few short years ago, it was nothing to dump ten bucks in the gas tank and drive five hours for a two night vacation in the north woods. Today that trip, financially speaking, is no longer a great idea. The trip burns...
Home Bar Gift Idea
Give the gift of home bar plans this Christmas and save money entertaining friends and family all year long.
Worlds longest word…
The Worlds Longest word has 189,819 letters and takes three hours to pronounce ‘Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine’ is the chemical name of ‘titin’ (also known as ‘connectin’) – the largest known...