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Building the frame of the bar was easy and for the most part straightforward. The only challenge I ran into with this part was how I was going to build the front part. I didn't know if it should be in two different sections or just one. I needed to have the ability for a bartender to work behind the bar.
I ended up going with the two separate parts design just because it was easier and I couldn't think of any beneficial reason for not doing it. The only difference would have been the front 2x4s being sent from the base 2x4 to the top 2x4. In the picture, we can see that this isn't what I did and there is an additional horizontal 2x4.
In this picture, it is another angle to see the section for someone to bartend. Looking back on it now it would've worked either way just fine.
This did come out amazing, but our original plan was to use pieces of wood from pallets. The pallets we were able to find were not easy to take off the wood without breaking it. Our solution was thin trim wood that you can buy from home depot. The biggest issue I ran into, which will be shown below, is that I didn't account for the trim going all around the bar. I would have needed to extend the weed to keep the lattice look going all the way around.
This was the solution to not overhanging the front wood. Still looked fine and turned out great, but we wanted that front look all of the way around.
This is the look of the other side of the bar which followed suit with the picture on the left.
The next step was working on the tops. In this picture, the bartender area can be seen. For the top, my cousins chose just to do plywood. The cool thing my cousins are going to do with it though is let everyone sign the top and then epoxy it so all of the signatures are sealed.
At one of my many Home Depot trips, I got the 4x8 sheet of plywood cut into 2x8. This way it fit in the car, but this led to an issue on the bar top. Due to fitting the mini fridge underneath its corresponding top was larger than 24" which I didn't realize when I got the wood cut, so I had to cut the board into three pieces to make the top.
The bartender area can be seen, and the top came out great. The plan was to add barn-style sliding doors, but I ran out of time. The inside as seen consisted of shelves and one open area. The thought behind this is that the shelves are extremely easy to add and move so for right now this was adequate, but as the bar gets used they will be able to add more shelves if needed.
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