Seen at a local pub, this high-intensity decor decision is an inventive and low-budget solution for what to do with an underutilized cooler case and all those empties. We may not be able to replicate it exactly at home but we think the idea is way cool.
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This wall is the reason we first visited Nick's Uptown. Even though the refrigerator is all the way in the back of the bar, one can see its rainbow glow from the street. This eye-catching lure owes everything to the simple tactic of back-lighting.
You could easily put this idea to use with your home bar. A couple of illuminated shelves, empty bottles, and food coloring is all you'd need. Or you could make your own stained glass effect by shelving out the frame of a non-opening window and relying on the daylight. What about filling antique pill bottles with a monochromatic tint for a more subtle display?
What else could work?
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I like it in a bar, but why would you want your house to look like a bar? The food coloring idea is very Mary Engelbreit.
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If you drop highlighter cartridges into the bottle, the water will end up looking neon. It is pretty cool, we did this for a theater production once.
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What a great and simple way to turn a boring window fixture, into an eye-catching focal point of a room. Although great to update that old drab looking bar, as a modern 3D stain glass window, it would be far from making a house look like a pub.
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