Basement Bar

May 10, 2010 in Projects by Elliott

I had the idea to create a bar in my Seattle basement room, to both open up the space and to be a functional place to serve drinks. The problem was that I had to cut a large hole in the wall. After verifying with a carpenter that the wall didn’t serve any necessary support function or house any electrical wires, I used a Sawzall to cut a rectangular hole in the wall.

While the Sawzall made a very rough cut, the use of trim around the outside of the cut covered it up very well. All the trim is Phillipine mahogany, while the bar surface is solid plank of walnut.