Rainier Beer remote

[christopher575]

We’re turning our basement into a dive bar. It’s coming along nicely. A vine can’t show how great these two are, though. The one on the left slowly scrolls through colors which mimic a sunrise and sunset, and the one on the right has twinkling city lights along the bottom.

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[snatchbeast.livejournal.com]

Ohmygod, I love your dive bar!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm down here literally all day.

[paranoiattaque.livejournal.com]

hahahaha, i LOVE this idea.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

We've also got six lava lamps and a disco ball with two spotlights. Garrett doesn't want a fog machine. :(

[paranoiattaque.livejournal.com]

it might set off the smoke alarm!

this is incredible. i looooove lava lamps, i've got 3 in my room back in NJ still.

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

I've got an extra star projector you can have.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I couldn't possibly turn that down!

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

Are you going to be at Mike's birthday shindig? I can bring it to you there!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I'm currently a maybe. :) We could always meet in Mill Creek or something.

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous of your basement. Very few houses in the UK have basements.

I like the twinkly city lights on the one on the right - where did you pick them up? Are they advertising signs?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

These two Rainier signs are indeed advertising signs, gifts from Garrett's grandma that used to hang in her basement bar. Not sure where she got them but they're pretty old.

I got most of the Zima signs on the other wall from ebay, but a couple of them and the inflatable bottle were gifts from friends. One was a bartender and I guess he found it in storage. Another spotted one at a garage sale. The bottle was at the neighborhood convenience store near a friend's apartment and she convinced the guy to give it to her since Zima's not even available any more, except in Japan.

I grew up in New Mexico, and basements were very rare there back then. One reason I was excited to move here was that there was a chance I'd eventually find a basement. Ours is pretty great, too. It's a full mother-in-law, and since the house is built on a hill, it's only partially buried. There are french doors that open to the back yard, so there's tons of light and it's really pleasant down here.

I really want to cut a doorway into the little wall that separates the kitchen and install a bar with 4-5 seats. Maybe even a booth in one corner. Too bad all my lottery tickets have been defective. :)

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

That is such a fun idea!