Those of you how know me well will know that a few months ago my wife and I bought our first house. Those of you who know me really well also know that I'm a self confessed sci-fi geek. Having only ever rented before, we were excited to put our own little personal touches on our new home. My wife got her wicked awesome kitchen and designed and put together the nursery for our upcoming baby while I was given free rein on the garage. Having said this, the "man cave" is a work in progress but I managed to get the more important projects completed first. I finally have a full size beer fridge. It's so nice to have room to properly store the random beers I stumble across but more on the fridge in another post. Next to every beer fridge in every man cave there needs to be a decent bottle opener. Last Xmas, my wife's grandmother gave me a little cast iron, wall mount bottle opener. Having never mentioned I was planning on making a wall mount opener for the new house I was pleasantly surprised that she knew me so well. I guess anything beer-centric is a safe bet. So basically I cut, sanded and painted a piece of 1x4 I had laying around from other projects. I then nailed it with long finishing nails into a stud making sure the nails would be hidden by the decal and opener. I then carefully applied the decal which I purchased from www.etsy.com for a few dollars. Once I was happy there were no bubbles or creases in the decal I screwed the opener onto the 1x4 centering it by eye.I love my geeky tardis opener that's on the wall right next to my beer fridge. I would love to turn the fridge into a tardis and have it be much bigger on the inside but I need to put my projects aside for now and concentrate on our imminent baby. I'll write another blog soon about my space saver solution for the fridge and as always, more brews reviews on the way so stay tuned.
Cheers, The Beerblogga
