Nobody asks me about the bar first. They ask about the TV wall, the sectional, whether that tired carpet can finally go. Then, about twenty minutes into a basement walk-through, someone points at the awkward corner by the stairs and says, a little sheepishly, “And we were sort of thinking… a bar?” Yes. Almost always, yes. The basement bar has turned into one of my favorite things to design, mostly because it has changed so much. It used to be a man-cave fixture: neon sign, gl