Post #433714 by TabooDan on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 5:22 PM

Hey MadDogMike! Good eye but it sure ain't no Volvo!!
Completely covered up there is our 57' Ford 300. We'll have her on the road by May but I gotta finish this Hideaway first!!!

Here is an early shot of the West wall where the window is:

And another one of this wall specifically:

The goal here is to have a large wall cabinet cover the area of the window and go into the corner. This will be behind the bar. Basically, there will be no window anymore. From the edge of the window to the corner is about six feet.
At first, I was going to build my own bar in sort of a Nike "Swosh" shape. Coming from about 18" from the left corner edge almost right into the back corner of the room. That's how I was designing this area of the room around.

Because the build (lots of reasons!) is taking so long, I will be putting off building my own bar right now and using an old vintage rattan bar that I have. I would like to build my own one day but for now, so I can get the room done, I will use the bar I have. It will still work and the shape of it actually works pretty good here.

I only want the patio door as the natural lite coming in as it's not too easy to get rid of or hide!! I will work around it and make it look good in the grand scheme of things! The window, however, is open game and has gotta go!! Gotta be dark in here!! I'll talk about the patio door later.

Once I added the stone wall and matting:

As I did the T&G on the other side of the room, to the left of the fireplace, I decided I would add a small amount on this wall as well. Basically, from the corner edge to where the bar would go.

Here is some of the T&G up:

You can also see I replaced the white electrical and threw on a Crazy Al Tiki wall plate. Great detail and awesome designs on his electrical covers!! I recommend you going over to his site and checking them out if you haven't!
I will be darkening the Tiki cover a little so it's color fit's in a bit better for me.

In this next shot, you can see the added matting on the wall above the new T&G:

I extended the T&G almost to the windows edge. At first I was going to build the bar but after deciding not to for now, I added extra T&G on the wall which will run right to the wall cabinet behind the bar.
Right on the corner of this edge, between the stone and T&G, will be a circular carving that will be custom done by Reido for The Zombie Hideaway! It will go from the floor right up to the ceiling. More to come on that as well!

Here's a dark shot looking back at the rest of the room from under the hut:

Supplies and tools! Supplies and tools!!

TabooDan