Starts to look like a bar:)

As I am writing the blog, this late, since this is the first time today, that we have stopped, we are about to hit 2000 views on the blog!! It is crazy, and everyday is, we never thought when we started that we are going to have 100 people reading us everyday at the end its a really amazing feeling. its crazy to think only a month ago we were sitting in the Lake House at Balaton talking about how we are going to get this project off the ground and  how we are going to open bar in budapest, if it was even possible, and if it was, when? Still so many questions come up everyday as we go through this process , but at least we know, we are now sitting in our own bar in Budapest, and no one can tell us what is going to happen, but we are very overwhelmed with what we have achieved so far and the time scale we did it in but we have gone 200 miles an hour.This morning we arranged with my mom to go to IKEA and get the most important furniture we need for the bar, so we can actually sit down and maybe even have a table, since we spend all of our time here, and yesterday I said enough is enough to all the conditions we are living like, but today we wanted to make it cosy and nice for ourselves as well. My mom picked us up after a life saving shower in the flat and we headed off to IKEA. The goal was to get a couple of tables, chairs, sofa, decoration, but we ended up finding a lot of things, and the flow of new ideas. We made our best video so far, I think Scott is going to be ready with it either  tonight or first thing in the morning but for sure it will look amazing  as I know him and his work:)!  We want to keep the details of the in bar revamp design a secret from now on, so it can be a surprise for you guys on the Opening, but in a way it is really hard to keep it a secret once you are finished with a part of the bar, if it is cool, we just want to show you! 

We went around the store once for the smaller things, and then had to go back for the actual big furniture pieces, and as much as we like ikea for the all there crazy cool stuff and for the prices, I have to say, that if you are a bit older or just not strong enough, you will have a hard time dealing with there unique self service way, since you have to get everything for yourself, which is not the easiest in case of a sofa for example. We got the best chairs, and sofas for a certain sitting area we have chosen within lost, where you can sit down and chill out with a nice bottle of wine after a hard day at work  but we plan to put the seats away on a Friday, Saturday night, sorry:)) so we can fit more people within the venue. Scott found his desk for the DJ box which made him very happy he is just like a big kid some times we got all the furniture we needed for the lost HQ  office, at the end we seriously got so much more then what we planned but in the end under budget. Oh well, we still made it round in about 3 hours, but then Scott really wanted to look for locks for our doors because of security reasons, so we went to Baumax again. There are so many unique and funny things in these DIY shops, we found so many things, a cool doormat, decorations, and first of all, the perfect bar chairs for our bar!! It was a problematic point on our revamp list, since IKEA didnt have any ones which fit our needs and everywhere else was so expensive So it was the best buy so far, and as soon as we put them in place in  lost it actually started to look like  a proper bar:)! We have so many ideas and plans ahead for the revamp but I cant talk about it yet, all I can say, that it is going to be unique and really cool place where people can relax party and network.

After we unpacked all our stuff, I went to the mall to get paint for Scott so he could start on his graffiti master pieces. I was busy with the budget and the finances, calculating the first drink order as well which is not a short process, I just finished my part about half an hour ago, and Scott is still working who knows till when... We get our ikea delivery furniture tomorrow in the morning between 8am and 12 its really good service they deliver on a sunday so we finally can get everything ready, and maybe we are even going to get a weeks rest before the opening! Today, we already felt like we are getting there, it is just going to get better tomorrow with the sofas and tables. 

It is so much work, we did sacrafice quite a lot over this bar, our private life, relaxing time, everything is on hold till we open. But remember it is only 4 weeks from now!! Tomorrow is all about setting bar up and with Monday all the craziness is going to start all over again with major meetings planned and we find out finally about the flat above fingers crossed, we cant even start to tell people how much we have to get done next week.

Sneak Peak @ Scotts crazy in bar ART ATTACK!!! Memories from our pasts

Scott was a big fan of video games when he was a kid and this brings back memories for him

Alice in wonderland was a favourite of ours when we was kids but we plan to finish this design
with a real working clock in the white rabbits hand