Living in the Perth Hills, there's not any nearby pubs, so we made our own! It's taken us about 8 months to convert half of our shed. We did all the work ourselves, except for the main partition wall frame, and the electrics. I did all the woodwork, and my partner did the brickwork/tiling and metal installations, including fixing an old broken spiral staircase we salvaged from the local tip. Naturally, we virtually lived at Bunnings during the transformation, especially as we're renovating the whole house too.
Materials
Lots of Timber! Various sizes, some salvaged
Plasterboard, plywood (various)
Lots of black paint and floor paint and lots of stain
Rubberized adhesive, cement and cement dye (for grout)_
Reclaimed painted old metal roofing
Blackboard and Foam for dartboard area
Lighting
Wax
Fixings
Tools
Table Saw
Mitre Saw
Band Saw
Router
Various drills
Nail gun
Paint brushes and rollers
Steps
Step 1
Here's some before photos, including the partition wall frame that went up. Apart from the electrics, this was the only things we got someone else to do. We did clad the wall ourselves in plasterboard painted black for the back-drop to the bar.
Step 2
Centre piece to the whole pub, is the bar. I didn't really have a design, I made it up as i went along. Trickiest part (apart from the size and weight of working with such heavy wood) was mitreing around the posts and the bar top was two-tiered and constructed using pocket hole joinery. I also made some under-bench shelving units for plenty of storage. For the dartboard area right next to the bar, I re-purposed some panelling that came out of our study that we renovated.
Step 3
Opposite to the bar, was a mezzanine area where firstly I changed the ugly steel girders and white board, to make it look the ceiling was made from wood planks. I did this by firstly painting the steel girders black, and then ripping up some 6mm plywood into planks and staining them, and nail gunning them into position. Was very pleased with the effect.
Before Photo
Finish Ceiling
Step 4
Next was the walls to this area under the mezzanine which would be the pool table area, with a salvaged spiral staircase up to the mezzanine, a barrel table seating area and a kitchenette.
We created different wall textures, one of wood panelling. One of wood panels with rusty metal inserts, and a feature brick-tiled wall for the kitchenette block.
Step 5
Some photos of the finished pub from different angles.. As you can see, we've fitted in a sofa seated area where there's also a TV on the wall for watching soccer match and playing music videos, a pool table area and a dartboard area as well as a huge bar.
