Beer Signs and More

Dressing Up The Metal Beer Signs

Metal Beer Signs look great in your bar at home.  But, sometimes we just nail them to the wall or find some other way to just fix them flat.  They look great either way.  But, there is a way to dress them up a bit.

Rather than fix your signs flat against the wall and just leaving them that way, give them a border.  It’s easier than you might think.  Grab some trim from your local hardware store.  Cut it in down so that you have enough to go around the sign and make sure your cuts are in 45 degree angles.  Using a few dowels will cover how you attach the border to your wall.  But, small nails will look nice too.

For instance, the sign above is 16” X 12.5”.   You’ll need enough trim to cover 57” and you’ll have to keep in mind to make up for the 45 degree angle cuts.  If your border is a half inch wide, you’ll only need about an extra inch of trim.  But, do your own math so that you make sure you have more than enough.

If you would like to have dowels holding your trim around your sign, I would suggest at least two per piece.  Three is even better.  Drill small holes in the trim.  Then, drill small holes in the wall and make sure you are aligned perfectly.  It’s an easy job.  But, you can mess it up if you aren’t paying attention.  If you do the job well, you’ve just decorated your Metal Beer Sign in the most inexpensive way possible.  Have fun!

Metal Beer Signs

How To Make Your Home Bar More Bar And Less Home

When you are trying to create a bar in your home, of course you begin with the taps and the handles, mirrors and signs.  You built a bar!  It has to look right.  Right?

But when the bar is in place and you think you have it all, what kind of lame bar serves draft beer in plastic cups?  And I’ll be willing to bet that’s what you have.  Red plastic cups that you bought at the grocery store.  Hmm…all that work and then you tap out at the end.

Well, you can add some specialty glasses so that your friends are drinking in style.  This is where it gets tricky, but you can manage.  You don’t just want to get mugs of any kind.  You need to stock up your cabinets with mugs of all kinds.

Vintage mugs from old fashioned beers add such a touch of class.  Especially when you have friends asking you where you got the mugs.  That’s when you realize saving money on those red plastic cups wasn’t worth it after all.

But, don’t stop there.  You should have Pilsners and Pints, Dimpled Mugs and Retro Pubs.  Get mugs with different logos like Coors, Molson, Blue Moon and Killian.  It’s a blast to make sure that you drink out of the right glass for the right kind of draft.

Logo Beer Glasses