The Bar is Finally Open!

In 2008, wow - it's been that long. In 2008 I knocked a lovely hole in the wall between the kitchen and living room. I thought it would open it up (and wanted to watch tv while cooking). There's always ulterior motives, right?

Then in 2009 (or '10, it's been so long I forget now) Kenneth got me a lovely chunk of rough cut cedar to build a bar with. It was to match the mantle (as seen above) and would fit in the nice new opening.

But I couldn't just put a rectangle piece o

f lumber in the hole - oh no, that would be way too easy. So, I came up with a plan of how it needed to be cut here and notched there. Seeing as how this is 4"x12" cedar not just any saw will cut what I wanted to cut.

To the point - my wonderful friend Bob was able to cut just what I needed and FINALLY - the bar is open. It looks like we knew what we were doing. I've got a sealer that I need to put on but other than that it's up. And it only took 3 years!