Coolest features of a Bar

empacher · 29-01-2013 05:26AM #1

Hi Folks.

At the moment I'm refurbishing a Bar I work in. I've being trying to find things to make the Bar unique and unusual in most aspects.

What I'm looking for is any Unusual, Cool, Wacky furnishings for a Bar. It can be any part, from the Furniture, Signs, Roof, The Bar itself, Toilets e.t.c

I've being trawling through pages on Google but alot are completely wacky. But any more would be appreciated.

Things I found on Google get as crazy as the floor being made from plexiglass and there being sharks underneath.

Cheers

Arawn · 29-01-2013 05:29AM

Do your own ****ing job or pay me my consultant fee

endacl · 29-01-2013 05:31AM

empacher wrote: »

Hi Folks.

At the moment I'm refurbishing a Bar I work in. I've being trying to find things to make the Bar unique and unusual in most aspects.

What I'm looking for is any Unusual, Cool, Wacky furnishings for a Bar. It can be any part, from the Furniture, Signs, Roof, The Bar itself, Toilets e.t.c

I've being trawling through pages on Google but alot are completely wacky. But any more would be appreciated.

Things I found on Google get as crazy as the floor being made from plexiglass and there being sharks underneath.

Cheers

Cheap pint. That would tick the unique and unusual boxes.

Tombi! · 29-01-2013 05:32AM

Here are some mad ideas: toilets that are actually clean.

endacl · 29-01-2013 05:33AM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Here are some mad ideas: toilets that are actually clean.

That's just one mad idea.

Reamer Fanny · 29-01-2013 05:36AM

Pulling your own pint is pretty cool

Bipolar Joe · 29-01-2013 05:37AM

Not having to wait half an hour for a pint while you serve loud assholes and chicks with their tits hanging out.

Ruudi_Mentari · 29-01-2013 05:38AM

All the different liquor bottles on display. Fell like takin my pistol out, pew pew

im invisible · 29-01-2013 05:44AM

Music that you can have a conversation over,
pool table, maybe a dartboard in a corner where people won't be passing between you and it,
take the seats away from around the bar on busy weekend nights

endacl · 29-01-2013 05:48AM

im invisible wrote: »

Music that you can have a conversation over,
pool table, maybe a dartboard in a corner where people won't be passing between you and it,
take the seats away from around the bar on busy weekend nights

And self-stirring mugs!

Music4life · 29-01-2013 06:15AM

Get a jukebox and set it up like them Dive bars in the united states.

GiftofGab · 29-01-2013 06:23AM

There's a bar in Melbourne which is done up like an apartment. So it's like going to a house party. There's people playing giant jenga, chess and different board games. There's a bed that you can lie in. Nice sofa's. Fish tanks. A phone box. Book shelves. A clothes rack that you can swap clothes i.e. if you take an item of clothing you put another one of yours on the rack. There's an old school tv set. BBQ set. It's a pretty cool bar. It feels like you're chilling in somebody's sitting room.

There's another bar here where the bottom floor is done up like a science lab, middle floor like a hospital and top floor like a gym.

29-01-2013 06:38AM

GiftofGab wrote: »

There's a bar in Melbourne which is done up like an apartment. So it's like going to a house party. There's people playing giant jenga, chess and different board games. There's a bed that you can lie in. Nice sofa's. Fish tanks. A phone box. Book shelves. A clothes rack that you can swap clothes i.e. if you take an item of clothing you put another one of yours on the rack. There's an old school tv set. BBQ set. It's a pretty cool bar. It feels like you're chilling in somebody's sitting room.

There's another bar here where the bottom floor is done up like a science lab, middle floor like a hospital and top floor like a gym.

Where are these bars

lintdrummer · 29-01-2013 06:41AM

A place i know used to have the front half of an old vw beatle mounted on the wall inside. Looked like it has crashed through the wall. Back half of old scooters, complete with back wheel, make nice bar stools.

GiftofGab · 29-01-2013 06:52AM

Hailee Low Granule wrote: »

Where are these bars

29th Apartment in St. Kilda and Croft Institute in China town. Both in Melbourne.

im invisible · 29-01-2013 07:13AM

The ice machine

Sofiztikated · 29-01-2013 07:16AM

Ensure you get the basics right.

No stupid corners, that will never be clean.
Toilets that are possible to clean, and keep clean.
Proper hand dryers, not those things that wheeze at you like an athsmatic smoker.
Ensure the bar is functional for the staff, as well as the patrons.
Non slip mats/bounce mats behind the bar.
Wash areas that aren't 15 fúcking miles out of the way, and washers that clean that glasses, preferably with a cold rinse, so the glass is cooler coming out of the machine.

Now for furnishings. Are you just looking for a collection of random crap? Or have you a theme in mind?

I'm guessing random crap in the interest of making it "quirky." If it's "quirky" for the sake of it, remember, shít will get poked, prodded, have drink spilled on it, broken, photo's taken, etc. Is it replacable?

Ideas - Furniture made from recycled materials, car/bike parts, scrap metals, old bricks/wooden sleepers. A massive fúcking tree in the bar, with a tunnel hollowed out through it. Hammocks instead of benches. Upsidedown TV. Miniature elephants roaming wild inside. Peacocks. A red pool table. A jacuzzi. Unisex toilets. Sensory depreviation area. A 12 ft stapler. Light fixtures made out of bone. A touch sensitive dance floor. Teeshirt cannons. Proper fúcking CCTV. Human sized hamster balls. Human sized hamsters.

Testament1 · 29-01-2013 07:27AM

GiftofGab wrote: »

There's a bar in Melbourne which is done up like an apartment. So it's like going to a house party. There's people playing giant jenga, chess and different board games. There's a bed that you can lie in. Nice sofa's. Fish tanks. A phone box. Book shelves. A clothes rack that you can swap clothes i.e. if you take an item of clothing you put another one of yours on the rack. There's an old school tv set. BBQ set. It's a pretty cool bar. It feels like you're chilling in somebody's sitting room.

There's another bar here where the bottom floor is done up like a science lab, middle floor like a hospital and top floor like a gym.

Those bars sound awesome! Gonna have to pop in for a look whenever I get around to visiting Melbourne. Wonder if theres anything like them in Sydney?

empacher wrote: »

Things I found on Google get as crazy as the floor being made from plexiglass and there being sharks underneath.

I would fly back to Ireland just to drink at your bar if you did this!

hardCopy · 29-01-2013 07:32AM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Here are some mad ideas: toilets that are actually clean.

And toilets that aren't freezing, when will publicans stop building freezing cold jacks with no radiator and the window left permanently open?

Lingua Franca · 29-01-2013 07:45AM

1. Nail a bicycle and a couple of buckets to the ceiling.
2. Call it an Irish bar.
3. ??????
4. Profit!

Sofiztikated · 29-01-2013 08:08AM

hardCopy wrote: »

And toilets that aren't freezing, when will publicans stop building freezing cold jacks with no radiator and the window left permanently open?

And a seemingly common inability to have hot water plumbed into the taps. Ah, the blue tap, that will be cold. Ah the red tap, that will be colder.

im invisible · 29-01-2013 08:16AM

im invisible wrote: »

The ice machine

or maybe the toilets.

.red. · 29-01-2013 08:18AM

ensure your bouncers/door men arent a bunch of arse-h0les who stop people for the craic of it. make sure you tell them they are there to stop scumbags, not groups of 3 males or more.

gobnaitolunacy · 29-01-2013 08:59AM

GiftofGab wrote: »

There's a bar in Melbourne which is done up like an apartment. So it's like going to a house party. There's people playing giant jenga, chess and different board games. There's a bed that you can lie in. Nice sofa's. Fish tanks. A phone box. Book shelves. A clothes rack that you can swap clothes i.e. if you take an item of clothing you put another one of yours on the rack. There's an old school tv set. BBQ set. It's a pretty cool bar. It feels like you're chilling in somebody's sitting room.

There's another bar here where the bottom floor is done up like a science lab, middle floor like a hospital and top floor like a gym.

If such a bar was over here, people would just steal all the cool stuff or write/gob/puke all over them.

This is why we can't have nice things.

squod · 29-01-2013 09:42AM

OP. Listen up. This is very important.

Mirrors on the floor. The burds will love it, the blokes will love it even more. Some local night club built a glass bridge over the dance floor. Fantastic!

elefant · 29-01-2013 09:46AM

Dogs playing cards

Plazaman · 29-01-2013 09:54AM

+1 on the whole design the place so it can be easily cleaned and kept that way. I cringe when I see carpets in a pub, they have no earthly business there.

Is this a local bar or a nightclub type place? If a local bar you'll need to decide in advance is it (a) a chatty bar with low music so people can talk (b) a sports bar, then you'll need at least 3 TV's that can be tuned to different channels at the same time (i.e. 2 or 3 satellite boxes) (c) music bar, then a stage with proper lighting is a must and if you have your own sound system, it'll be easier and cheaper to hire musicians/bands.

Of course if you have the where-with-all and the skills, your bar can be all of the above but you'll have to carefully choreograph all or it'll fall apart horribly and the chatty people won't come because of the tellys or the sports people won't come because the game isn't on and there a band in the corner or the music people want to watch the band but the TV's are on behind them and theres too many people talking etc etc.

Invoice for consultancy fee in the post.

Sergeant · 29-01-2013 10:00AM

Things or people who are described as quirky usually end up being anything but.

Mentioned before, but clean toilets.

faceman · 29-01-2013 10:00AM

Some brilliant suggestions.

Keeping it at a simplistic level. Don't tell your staff to be friendly, just hire friendly staff.

Oh and stock more than just the standard Guinness/Heineken/Carlsberg drafts. There are far nicer beers out there.

Everything else is secondary!

iDave · 29-01-2013 10:03AM

Why do bars need to be 'cool', 'funky' and 'trendy' these days.
Some of us still like traditional bars.

TPD · 29-01-2013 10:10AM

Get a load of old small crap CRT tvs and have them all lying on top of each other, some on their side, playing looping videos of nuclear bombs and stuff.

Also, have a microbrewery going in the back and sell your own beer.

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