Log Cabin Basement

[toonfish]

I just helped my bro-in-law finish his basement...we did log sided walls, stone bar base with pine top etc...Turned out really well.....Wondering if anybody else had some good ideas for a outdoor/fishing themed basement....I have the itch now to do my own....I am thinking a mosaic bar top with a fish design or something.....any other ideas out there or things that you have seen at lodges,resorts,bars etc....

[Ralph Wiggum]

It would be spendy, but I saw a really cool idea at a diner in Osakis. At the counter/bar, they had pedestal seats out of Ranger boats instead of ordinary stools.

[Bobb-o]

also why not make the front of your bar plexiglass and add a couple mounts in it. also some giant rapalas, daredevils etc.

[Farley]

Ash-Ka-Nam has a sweet bartop with Kabetogama and Namakan burned into the wood. i guess a 16 year old kid did it and did a great job. he also did all the dining tables with scenes of deer, bear, moose, ducks. Pretty cool to see. The lakes are complete with islands so if you are sitting at the bar you can plan your next attack right there.

[toughguy]

I did a log cabin theme myself last year in my basement. I had a log home builder cut some pine logs to frame out a section that has a lower ceiling. I put knotty pine a few feet up the sides of each wall and knotty pine on the ceiling too. I totally recommend the knotty pine ceiling. It looks great. It took a long time to poly the stuff but it was well worth it. I also did the standard fake stone gas fireplace with a log mantel. Let me know if you have any questions I may be able to help some (with questions not labor ). Here is a picture of the almost finished product. I have since added the shelves behind the TV.

[toonfish]

I will post some pics of the finished basement that I did for my brother in law...I like the idea of the burned in lake map on the bar, and the plexiglass open bottom with a mount or replica...good ideas so far....I would love to here some more....I can't wait to do mine

[Eric Wettschreck]

On a table top or bar top drill in holes and have a built in cribbage board.

[nytelyter]

i saw this out at green lake somewhere it was a relief/contour map then use the poured acrilic top stuff or maybe a recessed area with old lures and tackle with the same poured top surface

[DTro]

I finished my basement in a fishing/outdoor theme. The logs would have been out of my budget, but "the better half" came up with log wallpaper. I was like bleh....but it turned out really nice. I put in a corner "river rock" fireplace and accessorized with my grandfather old B&W's. I took the photo's and blew em up to poster size.

Even decorated the bathroom as an outhouse.

You can kind of see the wallpaper in this pic:

(oh yeah, that's fishing lure wallpaper also and if you look really hard you can see an "old school" baitcasting setup.

[toonfish]

Those old setups are cool....I wonder if you could find lots of that stuff somewhere???

Here are the pics of the basement that I finished and talked about in my original post, I want a more outdoor/fishing theme when I do mine, but this turned out really well...feels very up-north

[nytelyter]

my half story upper level is my master bedroom and computer area and has an out door cabin decor to it old skis and poles a rod rack with old and antique rods and reels hanging from it i have an old tobogan on the walll for a shelf and a set of oars for a quilt rack, gun rack on the wall.which are all done in 5/16ths pine with a carmel satin finish my bathroom has a pic of twin islands on rainy framed into a window and kreel with extra tp in it. well you get the pic. my addition will be half split log inside with a stone fireplace. but thats a few years off yet

[toonfish]

I think I am going to try some sort of open plexiglass base on the bar with a mount or replica.....And the lake map or the sunken lures for the bar top......thanks for the ideas and I will post when I am done...Thanks guys

[Big Dave2]

The lake maps in the bar top would look really cool. There is a bar in Mayer, MN that has stuff like that on all of thier tables with a poured acrilic or whatever over it. One table has cards and chips and money laied out like someone is playing poker. Every time people get up from that table they grab at the money thinking it is thier money laying there.