Post #808503 by swizzle on Fri, Mar 24, 2023 2:36 AM

Thank you Wendy, MaukaHale and coldwarspacemonkey.

So i've been holding off on posting this because i wanted to post all the other stuff i've made over the past few years first. It's not the most recent thing i've made, i've made some lamps and frames which i've already posted plus i have a couple of new mugs to show, but this is the biggest project i have made, and it's something i've been wanting to do for quite a while.

These are the only WIP pics i took, just a simple frame to add to.

And here is the finished bar.

In my last post i posted one of the Chinese jade breezeway tiles that i framed and with the second (of four) i made what you see here. It was just something i made, it was not made for the bar specifically, but when it came to 'decorating' the bar, it just happened to be the ideal thing to put on the front and fit beautifully.

I would have loved to have lined the background of the bar with bac bac/sea grass type material but it is impossible to find here and it was just far too expensive to have sent from overseas, once postage had been added, so i had to think of some sort of alternative and found some bamboo rugs online that were a reasonable price. It's just bamboo slats attached to some backing material with fabric stitched around the edges that i trimmed to size. (I think the rug was around 8'x4' to start with).

I've had these port and starboard lamps that i made quite a while ago (and posted them when i did).....

.....and they were another thing that just happened to come in handy and coincidentally and unintentionally be used for a project that they perfectly suited. Here's a pic of them turned on (with the overhead light on) along with the LED lighting i added to the framed breezeway tile.....

.....without the LED and overhead lights on.....

.....and what they look like from the sides. (They are really bright. I have to see if i can attach a dimmer to them somehow).

The LED lighting i added to the frame of the breezeway tile is run by remote and has a heap of different settings from one colour to multiple colours, from static to flashing, and everything in between. As i can't add videos here to show some of the patterns it can run through, here's a bunch of pics of some of the static colour options. (I found a purple colour i like and just leave it set to that-the second pic).

And the only other pics i have are of the bar top. There's nothing really exciting going on behind the bar. There's a powerboard with individual switches attached for all the lights. A shelf on the left and an open area for a mini fridge on the right which you can see in the first couple of pics (although admittedly i did screw up and should have done some research first as i haven't been able to find a fridge that will fit, i should have looked at what a standard size is and made that space accordingly), and i added some detachable casters so that the bar can be easily moved around if required, as obviously it's quite heavy. Oh! And a 'last call' ships bell which you can see above the port light in the pic further back.

So here's some pics of the bar top.....

.....and where it sits in my lounge room.

So some new mugs to come, more lamps, and something else utilizing the cork fish floats i made recently.

Cheers swiz

[ Edited by swizzle on 2023-03-24 02:48:04 ]