Hey! We're in a book! Well, our house is anyway...

Back when we bought the house on Lawrence Ave, we decided early on that we'd need a bar of some sort. After living in clutter and unpacked boxes for a procrastinatingly long six months, I made an executive decision. On a Saturday, I completely gutted the dining room. The cat peed pink carpet, gone. The pink and green flower wallpaper, down. The paint laden molding and crappy floor boards, out.

So I remade the entire room to look like a back door pub, based on the now infamous Gritty McDuff's in Portland, ME. I will be buried in that bar someday.



So anyway, when Barkeater Lake first made its big debut, the local paper came and did piece on the strip at my house. I had just finished the bar and was eager to show it off to any warm body willing to cross the front door threshold. The reported mentioned he was working on a piece about "Man rooms" in local houses and asked if I'd be willing to include our bar. I said yes, and the rest is history.



I got a call from this nice editor at Taunton Press and they came and spent about 6 hours photographing out little room.



Today in the mail, came a copy of the book.

I dunno about you guys, but I gotta say its pretty cool to be in a book.

You can buy the Manspace book on Amazon for $24.95

Cheers!

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