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The Bar Room Box


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2 hours ago, havanaholly said:

I have seen THAT bar in some hotel, but I like your copper picture much better!

There are a few downloaded photos of bars that I am using as inspiration. Unfortunately, I didn’t jot down the names of them and of course I can’t find them on the internet now to be able to tell you what they are. If you remember the name of the hotel, I’ll see if it’s one of mine.

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2 hours ago, Sable said:

...If you remember the name of the hotel, I’ll see if it’s one of mine.

I remember what I had for breakfast, does that count?  Probably somewhere in San Francisco (we don't stay in hotels with visible bars that much).

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I made a hammered copper sink out of copper sheets I purchased at HL. The copper was way too clean so I researched aged copper. A hard boiled egg in a plastic container along with the sink aged it beautifully within an hour. Unfortunately, the faucet made of faux copper wire didn’t age at all. I’ll try painting it with a wash.

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Love your beer taps Sable.. This is all coming along swimmingly.. I'm really looking forward to following along. :) 

Hard-boiled egg you say?... I've GOT to look that up.. I'm intrigued! :D 

 

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My two week obsession with working on this bar has been rudely interrupted by a weekend trip to Vero Beach to search for new flooring for the RL cottage. I was able to finish the back cabinet but still deciding if I want to polyurethane everything or keep the stain raw. Here is my sink which still needs a wash dabbed on it to add more age to it. I’ve fixed the edge of the front left corner since this photo was taken.

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1 hour ago, NellBell said:

This is really amazing, Can you design my bar and I mean my real bar. 

That’s so funny. I can create a lot of things in miniature but I can’t design anything in real life. The new “thing” in real life is vinyl plank flooring. Very practical for a beach house but I just can’t  get over the vinyl stigma. Florida has always been all about tile floors but apparently all of the tile installers have moved away...to where I have no idea, so now vinyl is the new thing. @holly will appreciate the new offering of quartz floors aka terrazzo. Yes, terrazzo is making a comeback. My mother hated our terrazzo floors. 

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8 hours ago, Sable said:

...@holly will appreciate the new offering of quartz floors aka terrazzo. Yes, terrazzo is making a comeback. My mother hated our terrazzo floors. 

My best friend in Sarasota has terrazzo floors all throughout her house; they will freeze your feet off if you go barefoot (or even in socks, like me) and even Corelle and Melamine will smash into a bazillion bits if dropped on it.  No thank you!

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The cash register and expresso maker are from Elf Miniatures. The lamp was one of my very first mini purchases in 1978. It has been sitting in a box just waiting for this scenario. Some wine bottles semi fill the shelves. 

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1 hour ago, havanaholly said:

Did you make those chianti bottles?  Or where did you get them?  They are so perfect for a bar!

I found them in a box donated to our club along with the other wine and liquor bottles. I suspect they are polymer clay, maybe. They are what sparked the bar project. 

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