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Ashley W.
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Basement bar?? Good or bad

Ashley W.
  • South Central Wisconsin
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Hi everyone, just purchased an STR home in Wisconsin that has the quintessential Wisconsin basement bar already in it. We are updating the whole house, especially flooring, but were wondering what to do about the bar. It is currently a full bar with mini fridge and full sink. My thoughts were to take out the L shape part of it and fix up the built in section on the back wall. Thus creating more space in the room and still including full bar amenities. My husband thinks we leave the whole thing and make it look nicer. We would not provide alcohol and we are marketing more to families as there is a pool and it's close to sport fields used heavily year round from all over. I can see both ways and would set it up family oriented with popcorn and such for a movie space regardless. What would you do? Leave the L or remove it? Ps. I would post pictures of it but cannot find how to do that.

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Bruce Woodruff
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How much use do you think it would get? Is it easy to get to (just walk downstairs?) Generally it is not recommended to encourage alcohol related stuff in an STR becuase of liability, but I could see getting some use out of it.

I would personally ditch the movie theatre concept and go full on game room. Which would probably entail getting rid of the 'L' to make more room.

Pics would be nice - right click and 'copy image'. Click on the image just to the right of the B I S U icons and attach the picture using 'paste'

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