Basement Osage Lane

Soon after we completed the home on Osage Lane, the owner asked us to come back and start a new project in his basement. We had about 1,500 square feet to work with so we had ample area to create the living space he desired. The library panel wainscoting, stair wall, and bar were all hand crafted on site using solid Poplar. The fireplace uses propane gas logs and is direct vented through the wall. The same 12"x12" ceramic floor tile in the bar area was repeated in the curved hearth at the fireplace.

Foundation

Over the last few days we have been doing punch list work,finishing up odds and ends, at the new build in Nelsonville. We want to finish up all of the little jobs before we move on to the next step of applying the tongue and groove pine to the ceiling and walls. While this punch work is important, I don't particularly want to write about it. I thought that it would be better to go back to the beginning of the build and catch up.

We hired a local excavator to cut in the driveway, clear the space for the house, and dig the basement. After 10"x24" concrete footers were poured, my masons came in and built the basement walls using 8" concrete block. The walls were then grouted, a process in which concrete and steel reinforcing is inserted into the voids of the block, to add strength and stability.

Bar

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t's that time of year again. As has been tradition for the past 20 years, I'm having a Super Bowl Party! With Super Bowl Sunday right around the corner it's time to finish The Bar, which was started in the summer.

The Bar was constructed out of a 100 year old barn door. A friend of mine found it leaning against the back of his garage when he bought his house. When I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

The top was tiled with random multi- colored slate that has been sitting in a box for years and years out at my dad's. He found it in an old barn at his dad's, and I thought I should use it before my sons inherited it.

The custom pool table light was constructed using 30 empty Jagermeister bottles. The design was inspired by some Corona lights I saw in a seedy bar when on a cruise in Aruba. While I didn't drink all the Jagermeister myself, I did do my fair share.