Special Items The tasting room bar was the most difficult piece, says Stasiukaitis. " The bar is free-standing and wrapped all the way around a central storage room. Coordinating all the necessary electrical and plumbing was very difficult. We made templates for the wall and marked it on the floor early on to help establish the exact location. " The front of the bar also received the alternating barrel staves detail. " This was extremely difficult and time consuming, " he adds. " Being a high traffic area, we needed to make sure these staves were attached properly. Each stave only touches the bar wall one or two times depending on whether it curves in or curves out. Our fabricators had to cut and install custom wedges for each individual piece to give them further support. " The main tasting bar was the most difficult to realize, agrees MacMurphy. " The bottom is clad in our used bourbon barrel staves and the top is wrapped in sheet copper. It was done this way as a nod to the copper still that we use to make our bourbon distillate and the White Oak barrels that we use to age the bourbon. The wood staves are elliptical and hard to repurpose. Low Country Case & Millwork did a wonderful job of bringing these ideas to reality. " 48 I designsolutions spring 2021