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Originally Posted by princessbelle

Well, I want a bar on the side of the living room and on the side of the kitchen, counter space with cabinets down and up. My problem is this.....there will be a space on the kitchen side between where the posts are and where the cabinets are...oh say about 2 foot. I don't know what to put there. Just build it in and paint it? And what about covering the posts. Just box them in and paint? Is there another clever way to decorate posts?

I say..

Cover it in sheet rock, then mount decorative wrod iron on the rock... Myself, I would do a winding *ivy* around the post.. possibly with insets for candles? I don't know your budget, but a local iron worker could make them fairly cheap.. (I don't know if you are in the city or the country.. In Missouri where my parents live, it seems like every other guy has a torch in his garage and does iron work)..

It you are going for a more industrial feel, you could wrap the entire post in metal after you rock it.. That's not hard at all.. It's just panels that you attach..