May 3, 2002

4:30 AM

Your very own pub in your gardenDo I have to say anything more? I don't think so.
posted by Summer (9 comments total)

Oh man, I so want to get me one of these. Maybe I could convince my wife it's a special gardening shed.
posted by smcniven at 4:48 AM on May 3, 2002

Judas H Priest, you can't even go in the back yard now without seeing an Irish theme pub these days.
posted by vbfg at 5:12 AM on May 3, 2002

I prefer my boudoir bar.
posted by emf at 5:15 AM on May 3, 2002

It is an Irish site, though, vbfg, so not technically 'themed'.
posted by Summer at 5:27 AM on May 3, 2002

A couple of years ago while planning a trip to Ireland, I came across a number of companies and individuals who specialize in this. It was rather surprising. To name a few...

The Irish Pub Company.
Yvonne Walsh Designs
Irish Pub Designs

The garden pub does add a new wrinkle however.

There is however, a seedier side that I will not discuss further.
posted by lampshade at 5:34 AM on May 3, 2002

I see the attraction, but the thing reeks of recorded diddly-diddly music, and 8000 euros would buy me at least a month's worth of real Guinness in a real pub.
posted by pracowity at 5:37 AM on May 3, 2002

I'm building my own strip club. So far, my Mom and my Sis are the only two dancers I've hired.

My club stinks.
posted by ColdChef at 6:33 AM on May 3, 2002

What an odd coincidence. Last weekend, I was walking through Oak Bay, a anglophile neighbourhood here in Victoria, and saw an honest-to-goodness garden pub. It wasn't prefab like this one though. It looked like they'd converted an old outbuilding: dark wood and wavy glass windows. About the size of a small shed. Hmm, knowing the real estate market here, they could subdivide and sell the shed as a $300,000 home. Er, or without all the rambling: I seen one, I seen one!
posted by Yogurt at 6:47 AM on May 3, 2002

Don't step in the fern bar. The wife'll kill ya.
posted by dhartung at 8:14 AM on May 3, 2002