In this video, I'm going to discuss how we
used Wilsonart laminate and quartz to
finish a bar for Tony Roma's. Coming up!
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When we were contracted to design this bar for Tony Roma's we'd been asked to
replicate the look of this bar, which had been designed for their flagship store
in Orlando, earlier. This was a new design that Tony Roma's had adopted.
Working only from a photograph, I was in disbelief when I was told that the
inlaid panels had been fabricated from a laminate.
At first glance I thought it was marble.
In reality, the laminate and the
countertops were creations of Wilsonart.
I should have figured!
Yep, the same Wilsonart samples you'll see in
the kitchen departments at your local Home Depot,
Lowe's and other big-box stores.
I'm here to tell you, these Wilsonart
products are perfectly legitimate for any bar design.
The trick, of course, is in the details.
A common method for laminating is to use
particleboard as a substrate. However, the use of MDF
board as a substrate for laminates is a more durable
and far superior solution nowadays.
For this application a product was selected
from the 'Solicor' series of the Wilsonart lineup.
Wilsonart offers numerous choices of terrific,
high pressure laminates.
The product we used specifically for this application is
the Wilsonart 'Calcutta Marble',
part number 4925 - 38, that has the fine velvet finish.
Some do-it-yourselfers can choose to do their own
laminating, but for those that want a ready-made
solution, just go to a local cabinet shop, or even go to
Home Depot or Lowe's and I'm sure you can
order these panels to your specifications and they'll
probably cost you about US$25 a square foot.
Now here's a typical bar section and the laminated
panel I'm showing here as items 19 and 20,
which is mounted to a sheet of 3/8" LP Smartside,
shown here as item 18, that runs the upper portion of
the bar die. Now if you look closely, here's
the sidng product I just mentioned, behind all this trim.
This is a cedar textured panel, shown here,
by LP Smartside, a residential siding product,
which is available at all big-box stores.
But I digress.
As I mentioned, the Wilsonart lineup also includes
quartz. We used quartz countertops through this
project throughout on the front bar,
back bar
and the supports for the ADA accommodation.
The part number we used for this project was 'Grey Lake
Q1009', shown here. In terms of cost,
3CM quartz begins at about $100 a square foot.
This project is $130 a square foot, as shown,
with a 3-inch dropped edge.
Now I don't want to leave you without discussing all this trim.
The lateral trim elements here and here,
down here and down here, those are called
'rails' and the elements that go vertically here, here, here
and so on, are called 'stiles'.
This is another product by LP Smartside -
it's their 'Smartside Trim'.
Now we used the 440 series and the 540 series.
The 540 series is 5/4-board,
the 440 series is 4/4-board.
As we go back to the section view, I'll zoom-in here
and you'll notice that the narrower components,
shown here - item 15 for instance and at the bottom,
those are the 4/4 boards and the two boards in the
middle - here and here - these are the 5/4 boards
and give you a little deeper reveal.
Going back to our photo, you'll notice the top board is
narrower than the intermediate board, below it.
This adds a little character to the design.
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