Friday, March 02, 2012
EXPEDIT Built-in Bar shelving
Materials: EXPEDIT Bookcase
Description: Used the Expedit Bookcase and placed on 2X4 supports. Then built a fake wall around it to make the unit look like a built in. Around the edges I used stained Quarter inch wood that matched the color exactly. This made the unit look as if it were an expensive built in.
Sold the home months later and heard from the owner that the bar was the deciding factor in buying our house over our other neighbors.
~ John Avolio, Pittsburgh
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Nicely done, assuming the shelves hold up over time.
ReplyDeleteMust be nice to buy a house in a buyer's market... Here, you'd have had five bidders fighting for your place within a week, bar reno or no bar reno.
John, could you explain how you built the wall around it?
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