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In Case You Were Wondering...
Our building was built in the early 1900's. It is not "stucco", as we first believed, but instead solid concrete poured over chicken wire and wood plank forms. The exterior walls are hollow while the interior walls are solid, and there is an inch and a half layer of concrete poured over the entire surface of our roof! Needless to say, our contractors did a whole heck of a lot of head-scratching prior to taking the project on!
We began permitting and construction in July of 2000. We repaired dry rotted wood around every window, patched cracks and crevices that cut clear through to the exterior of the building, and replaced archaic plumbing and wiring. It took a year and eight months from start to finish, not to mention a ton of help from our friends and community. A tip of our hats to Jo and Mark at Blue & Blue Roofing, who patiently reconstructed our deteriorating eaves and re-roofed our crazy concrete lid, and a special thanks to Gene Johnson Plumbing for their generosity and great work! |
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We took special care to maintain the historical integrity of our building. The fireplace is a solid slab of concrete formed and textured to look like separate stones. We burn candles instead of wood to do our part in cutting down on air pollution.
We created the tile tables with tile scraps collected from the beach in Magnolia. We cut the tile and embedded it into mortar on plywood rounds, then grouted it and covered it with table top resin. Pretty simple, but none the less, time consuming.
The bar top is made from old school house chalkboards. It's been cut to fit, polished, set in place and then sealed. The bar back is an old waterbed headboard we picked up at a thrift store for $11.
Our columns were painted by Heather Wofford, whose artwork also adorns our walls. Heather is a graduate of Cornish and resides here in Seattle. Our sign was hand-painted, front and back, by Saul Bunford who currently resides in Bremerton. |
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Seen those light fixtures before? How about those plates? Probably! Virtually all of our furniture, dishware, flatware, glassware and equipment was picked up at auctions, thrift stores and used restaurant supply stores.
Our entire staff pitches in to help reduce waste in our community by sorting and recycling our glass, paper, plastic, tin, aluminum, cardboard and even our coffee grounds and kitchen scraps! To learn more about our green philosophy and practices, click here! |
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