Post #771988 by Kanaloa on Fri, Jan 13, 2017 12:33 AM

I am at the early stages of rebuilding my bar and figured this time I would post some pictures of the progress as I go. My first bar took me 2 years of blood, sweat and tears before I finally opened it and it's been around for over 5 years now. However, my wife and I decided we needed a larger home so with great heartache I had to tear down the bar and start all over again. Lots of great memories and a now a new beginning.

FYI, I'm not artistic at all and I just went with my gut which is pretty much what I'm doing again. As I got my inspiration here and I wanted to post some pictures of my original bar and those of the new bar as I build it.

Comments and suggestions are welcome and I hope you enjoy the journey with me.

So, here is the original bar. Truthfully, I never really named it - people just called it "Todd's Tiki Bar" and hell, I just went with it. Thinking maybe second time around, I come up with something different. Well see.

Shots from outside bar, looking in:

Daytime

Nighttime

The Bar: Just some random shots given the idea of what I had going on.

And now the beginnings of the new bar. Basically, I added on to the existing one car garage in the backyard to create the new space.

Didn't need all that garage space, so pushed the wall back 2' to give me more space in the bar. Wife wasn't to happy with this.

The furniture I had made, first time doing something like this and brought over from the original bar.

So, that's as far as I've gotten so far, more to come.