Hello,
I've found a couple of Bar plans on the NYW site and seem a few
antiques online. Has anyone built or seen plans for an English Style
Pub Bar and accompaning furniture? Are there other plans or sites I
could look at to get ideas? I'm looking for simplicity in design and
thinking dark wood, maybe pine but not red oak.
Thanks
Tim
Ahhhh, pub research in DC a capital (no pun intended) idea. Be sure to
call a cab! ;) Check out the four P's on Connecticut Ave by the zoo.
It's Irish obviously but they have some nice woodwork.
Allen
Catonsville, MD
"If they can put a man on the moon why can't they put a man on Lifetime
TV?"
Colin Quinn
In article <[email protected]>,
Tim Sauerwein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Andy,
>
> I wasn't really thinking along that line since I'm in Wash DC, but there
> are some British and Irish pubs around with some very good woodwork so
> I'm off on a trip downtown soon with my camera. Thanks also for the
> Wetherspoons lead.
>
>
Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 11:22pm [email protected] (Tim=A0Sauerwein) says:
Hello,
I've found a couple of Bar plans on the NYW site and seem a few antiques
online. Has anyone built or seen plans for an English Style Pub Bar and
accompaning furniture? Are there other plans or sites I could look at to
get ideas? I'm looking for simplicity in design and thinking dark wood,
maybe pine but not red oak.
It always kinda fasciates me when I see a post like this. You
been in many bars? I have, bot in and out of the U.S., and I don't
recall seeing any two bars alike. Similar, yes; alike, no. So, I doubt
you're going to find any stock "English pub bar" plans. I'd say just
pick a set of plans you like, and go from there. Or, check google
images, find something you like, and make something along those lines.
Then, all you have to do is say it's an "authentic reproduction of an
English style pub bar". Unless someone's been in every bar in England,
and has photo proof, it'd be hard to prove different.
Pine isn't dark, unless you stain it.
JOAT
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you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:22:03 -0500, Tim Sauerwein
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Has anyone built or seen plans for an English Style
>Pub Bar and accompaning furniture?
Yes - the Wetherspoons catalogue. You can mail-order an entire pub
these days, just like the Victorians did corrugated iron chapels for
missionaries. Wetherspoons is a pub chain that buys up tired pubs and
refits them in an identical style with "traditional" MDF. They have an
in-house style guide on how to do it.
If you want a decent looking pub, then go into one you like and take a
picture of it. Many English architectural salvage yards will even
have some fittings for you, like a couple of beer engines.
Other specialist fittings are harder to find; the beer warmers, the
pork scratcher, the thing that adds the wallpaper paste to the
vegetarian lasagne.
Don't expect any Englishman to like it though, unless it looks exactly
like a pub from within 50 miles of their home town. We'll know.
--
Inbreeding - nature's way of always giving you enough fingers to count your cousins
Thanks Andy,
I wasn't really thinking along that line since I'm in Wash DC, but there
are some British and Irish pubs around with some very good woodwork so
I'm off on a trip downtown soon with my camera. Thanks also for the
Wetherspoons lead.
Tim
In article <[email protected]>,
Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:22:03 -0500, Tim Sauerwein
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone built or seen plans for an English Style
> >Pub Bar and accompaning furniture?
>
> Yes - the Wetherspoons catalogue. You can mail-order an entire pub
> these days, just like the Victorians did corrugated iron chapels for
> missionaries. Wetherspoons is a pub chain that buys up tired pubs and
> refits them in an identical style with "traditional" MDF. They have an
> in-house style guide on how to do it.
>
> If you want a decent looking pub, then go into one you like and take a
> picture of it. Many English architectural salvage yards will even
> have some fittings for you, like a couple of beer engines.
>
> Other specialist fittings are harder to find; the beer warmers, the
> pork scratcher, the thing that adds the wallpaper paste to the
> vegetarian lasagne.
>
> Don't expect any Englishman to like it though, unless it looks exactly
> like a pub from within 50 miles of their home town. We'll know.
>
> --
> Inbreeding - nature's way of always giving you enough fingers to count your
> cousins