The pub that never calls last orders
There’s a particular kind of good evening that a garden bar makes possible: mates round for the football, a summer party that doesn’t trail mud through the house, a quiet pint at the end of a long week without leaving home. A converted container gives you a proper bar to do it in: warm, lit the way you want it, and finished to a standard that makes people stop in the doorway when they walk in.
This is the build where Jack’s trade really shows. Fifteen-plus years fitting kitchens means fitted bar joinery is home ground: a solid counter at the right height, a back bar that lines up, shelving and storage built to fit the space rather than bought to roughly suit it. The bar is the centrepiece, so it’s built like one.
Built around how you’ll use it
Tell us how the room works for you and we design it back to front. A serving hatch with a roller shutter or bi-fold that opens the bar onto the patio for summer. Beer lines and an under-counter fridge plumbed and wired in. A wall built and braced for the biggest TV you can justify, with the speakers pre-wired so there are no trailing cables. Ambient lighting on a dimmer for the evening and brighter task light behind the bar for pouring. Every one of those is decided up front and built in, not bodged later.
The shell underneath it all is insulated properly across walls, floor and ceiling, so the bar is comfortable in winter as well as at the height of summer. Add heating or air conditioning and it’s a genuine year-round room, not a fair-weather shed. The steel structure means you can have a lively night without worrying about the building, and it locks up secure when you’re done.
A finish that does the talking
The character of a good bar is all in the detail: the material on the counter front, the colour the lining takes, the warmth of the lighting, the cladding and signage outside. We build the box to a flawless standard and then dress it to the mood you’re after, whether speakeasy and dark, bright and modern, or rustic and timber-clad. Because we hold our own container stock, the build starts as soon as it’s agreed, so you’re not waiting on a supplier before the fun begins.
No planning drama for a garden bar
Used as a garden bar or games room, somewhere you use during the day and evening rather than somewhere anyone sleeps, a container bar normally falls under permitted development, the same as a garden room: behind the house, single storey, kept low near boundaries, under half the garden. Conservation areas, AONBs and listed properties have tighter rules, and anything used for sleeping or letting needs full planning permission and Building Regs. Electrics always fall under Part P, which we wire to. We’ll point you to where your build sits and always recommend confirming with your local planning authority. (Always verify with your local planning authority; rules differ in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.)
Delivered and pouring in a day
Your bar is built complete at our workshop and delivered finished on a HIAB lorry that lifts it over fences and walls, sets it on levelled pad stones and leaves it level and ready: no foundations, no concrete, no mess across the garden. In most cases it’s a single day from delivery to first round. If access is tight we plan it with you beforehand so delivery day runs clean.
Move house and the bar moves with you. It lifts straight back onto a lorry, and you don’t leave the best room in the garden behind.
Open when you say so
A container bar is the kind of build people don’t quite believe until they’re standing in it. It’s secure, it’s warm, it’s wired for everything you’d want, and it’s finished by someone whose trade is finishing. Backed by our 5-year structural guarantee on the shell, it’s a room built to be used for years. Tell us your idea of the perfect bar and we’ll design it, build it, deliver it and set it down ready to open.
