My gameroom and bar - WIP pix - new pix 1-31-06

[ChadTower]

and about 2 weeks after it was done she wanted a new house.  Now she wont let me do that again in the basement. 

Pfft... tell her to get her own job and buy her own damn house.

[Havok]

So, when can we all come over?

 

[skippy]

and about 2 weeks after it was done she wanted a new house.  Now she wont let me do that again in the basement. 

Pfft... tell her to get her own job and buy her own damn house.

That's the problem.  She about doubles my income every year, not that I'm complaining

[DrewKaree]

Shut your yap and work on better ways to hide your spending of her money.  You are our only hope, Dopi-Wan

[ChadTower]

That's the problem.

[skippy]

That's the problem.  She about doubles my income every year, not that I'm complaining

You're right, that is the problem, at least in terms of who wears the pants.

A good problem to have, though.

Not really a problem.  I think we both wear pants last time we checked, it's Mission that has that problem.  I can do pretty much whatever I want money wise but so can she.

[Roughy]

Did you bastardize the www.bar-gear.com L-bar plans?

I'm waiting for those no-email-replying MFers to respond with an expected date on the updated info so I can plan out that part of my basement...

[saint]

Not specifically - I never looked at their plans, but I looked at dozens of pictures of different bars, including theirs. Then I took the features of all the ones I liked, gave it to my contractor, and said "make me one with these features" and away he went

[JackTucky]

I used these plans for my first bar.  My next one is going to be straight, but I will probably use the plans again for measurements, etc.

http://www.gtpkt.org/pictures/pennybar/index.html

Click on the drawing for real drawings 

Art

[Brax]

Not to point out the obvious or anything, but where's the MAME cab!?!?!?

 

[saint]

Upstairs in my study of course

[Roughy]

You've got a study?

Nice, Mr. Howell...

[saint]

New picture of my bar/gameroom area. I present to you . . . the perfect fridge!

[DrewKaree]

New picture of my bar/gameroom area. I present to you . . . the perfect fridge!

Liar.  There's all that empty space on the door, which the perfect fridge would NOT have in it, there's only a half-filled shelf on the top, someone tainted your fridge with Sharp's, and the labels on those beers look mysteriously like 1UP

[walls83]

Man you got to do something about that "SHARPS"  that stuff is crap.  It is the worse NA beer on the market.  You should try the "AMBER Odoules".  Its by far a much better beer.

Ive tried prolly about 80% of the NA beers and the AMBER is the best.

[saint]

Don't ask me, I don't drink it -- I stock that for my buddy. That entire shelf of Strawberry Blonde? That's mine -- mmmmMMMmmmmMMMMm good!

[Zakk]

Were -I- Come from, the best kind of beer is FREE BEER!

Umm, is that fridge just siting in the middle of the hall?  If so get that thing a home, pronto!

[DrewKaree]

Do your buddy a favor and pick up some Claus-something or other beer if he needs an NA beer.  The Odouly's Amber, like the previous poster said, is pretty decent, but the stuff I'm talking about there (Clausthalen?  Clausthaler?  Claus-whatever ) is quite possibly the best NA beer out there. 

Sharp's sucks.  Big time.

[nostrebor]

Lookin quite fantastic!

man, it must have taken you a while to write on all of those screws 

I imagine the scene to be something like Steve Martin in "The Jerk"... writing out checks for the OptiGrab settlement


Also:

Dear saint,

Please remit your Gyruss to:

nostrebor
1234 Flat Broke Drive
Springfield, MO 65656

Your good friend,

Dave.

[ChadTower]

Don't ask me, I don't drink it -- I stock that for my buddy. That entire shelf of Strawberry Blonde? That's mine -- mmmmMMMmmmmMMMMm good!

Yes yes, one of my very favorites too.  Of course, my local store stopped carrying Pete's.

[saint]

I have my local liquor store order me xeveral cases at a time, no one here carries it

Don't ask me, I don't drink it -- I stock that for my buddy. That entire shelf of Strawberry Blonde? That's mine -- mmmmMMMmmmmMMMMm good!

Yes yes, one of my very favorites too.  Of course, my local store stopped carrying Pete's.

[ChadTower]

The guy who runs my local shop it an A-Hole.  I mean, world class.  He'd probably do it but would want 3x value on principle.

[quarterback]

Do your buddy a favor and pick up some Claus-something or other beer if he needs an NA beer. 

Clausthaler

http://us.clausthaler.com/

[eccs19]

Chad, Shouldn't be too expensive to throw some drywall up.  I did half my basement on my new house about 600 sq ft of space for about 1500 total.  Walls and ceiling.  Saint said he spent a g on carpet for that small space.  You Know a bar that pretty is gonna run into some change.  Think about how long your gonna be in the house before dropping serious change.  I put about 10k into the last basement and then the wife decided we had to build a new one.  Of course I didn't realize near that much out of it when I sold.

Building a new one is good. You can double the size of your game room!!!   

[Stingray]

I guess I don't check this forum often enough. Your room looks fantastic, Saint. I'm quite amazingly jealous.

-S

[saint]

Wait until I'm done with it   I'm very happy with how it's turning out and I have not yet begun to decorate!

[saint]

Not the gameroom per se, but part of my other current obsession (jujitsu). We devoted one room in the basement to jujitsu. Not much there yet, but we have a mat and a kicking/punching station, and a TV on the wall. What else do we need?

[saint]

The game-room sign pointing to the door into the game room appropriately enough. Bought on ebay, they're on there all the time. Very happy with it...

[saint]

And here's what happens when you put all your money into refinishing the basement, and don't have anything left over for furnishing

If you look closely on the wall, you can see the wide screen TV. See it?  No? Over there against the blue wall? No?...

When you can't afford to furnish things, the kids will take it over! Chad, you listening?



(Course, I think a ball crawl fits in with the theme of the basement overall, but I want my wide-screen TV )

[ChadTower]

When you can't afford to furnish things, the kids will take it over! Chad, you listening?

Already happened.  Every part of my house is covered in clutter.

[Stingray]

Every part of my house is covered in clutter.

Mine too, and I don't have kids.

-S

[ChadTower]

A lot of it is mine and my wife's... we have bad clutter habits and our kids have picked them up too.

[DrewKaree]

Every part of my house is covered in clutter.

Mine too, and I don't have kids.

-S

That you know of

[ChadTower]

I heard on the Police scanner they think he had a kid last tuesday.  They want to find him and ask him about it.  Something about the kid's parents being pretty unhappy he did it.

[JONTHEBOMB]

Not the gameroom per se, but part of my other current obsession (jujitsu). We devoted one room in the basement to jujitsu. Not much there yet, but we have a mat and a kicking/punching station, and a TV on the wall. What else do we need?

I have two friends that are involved in hapkido (similar to jujitsu I think).
What country does jujitsu come from?
Also, how large is your house?  I mean you have a jujitsu room, a game room, a study room.

If anybody is giving you trouble on the Message Boards you can locate them on the people finder and give them the beat down with your jujitsu skills.

[saint]

Heh. Basement is pretty big, has 5 rooms + bathroom. Study is a bonus room over the garage so it's not particularly glamorous. More of a place where I keep my junk.

Jujitsu (the branch I study) is Japanese. Stuff gets a bit murky when you ask where things came from, it all seems to have filtered through the Shaolin monks at some point. I'm only a yellow belt (second belt) at the moment so my Jujitsu-fu is not terribly strong. I'm about to test for orange (third belt) though!

--- saint

Not the gameroom per se, but part of my other current obsession (jujitsu). We devoted one room in the basement to jujitsu. Not much there yet, but we have a mat and a kicking/punching station, and a TV on the wall. What else do we need?

I have two friends that are involved in hapkido (similar to jujitsu I think).
What country does jujitsu come from?
Also, how large is your house?  I mean you have a jujitsu room, a game room, a study room.

If anybody is giving you trouble on the Message Boards you can locate them on the people finder and give them the beat down with your jujitsu skills.

[saint]

Moved the Kangaroo and Multi-Pac into the game room. Two pinballs and two cabinets left to go, hopefully this weekend!

[ChadTower]

Interesting arrangement.  Why that pattern?

[ClubNinja]

If he put them against the wall in that area, it looks like he'd only fit three instead of four.

[ChadTower]

But now he has a bunch of wasted space behind them.  That looks like a better spot for pins than vids, unless there is something behind them that needs to be there.