Blog - Barkers Island Inn

Another exciting event happening today is the pouring of concrete for our new outdoor patio. Hard to beleive how beautiful it is outside. In...

Day 16. Painting is complete in the Restaurant and today the carpet is being installed. Also today we are behind the scenes working on inst...

Mr. Oliver has been hard at work forming up the perimeter of the new outdoor patio. We have some exciting things planned and as you can see...

One of the few structural changes we have made during this renovation is the addition of a new door form the restaurant directly outside to ...

It is day 14 (Day 6 of the restaurant project) and the new color scheme is taking shape. Here you can see a finished section of the wall alo...

We decided to go with no vinyl or wallpaper at all in the new restaurant. Most of the walls will be covered with knockdown. Here is Mr. Kent...

The restaurant previously featured a very large amount of forest green. That will be completely absent upon completion. Here we are painting...

In addition to renovating the restaurant we are also going to be installing a new doorway for expanded patio access and at least tripling th...

We Over the past 2 days I have had over 10 people working at scraping the old wallpaper off of the walls. It did not go well but we are fina...

Many of you who have eaten here may have heard to one section of the restaurant referred to as the "old bar". Well as you may have...

Underneath the old carpet we discovered the original hardwood floors from when Barkers was built in 1981. Unfortunately it was beyond repair...

We immediately began ripping up the old wrinkly carpet from the dining room floor. Even Captain Carl decided to show up and help out tonight...

Day 8 featured the Mothers Day Grand Buffet. Thank you very much to each and every one of the 700+ people who dined with us today. As soon a...

One part of our current remodel project is painting the exterior of the building. I just finished painting a small section with the two colo...

Day 7. Finished up the new outlets and the baseboard in the Erie room. This room is now ready for business!

The hallway wall just outside the ballroom (an area we refer to as the prefunction) also was completed today. This new scheme provides a muc...

Well Day 6 turned into a bit longer day than usual due to a few minor complications. It certainly didnt help than last minute runs to Menard...

Well Phase 1 of this project is getting close to completion. Here is the hallway outside the ballroom. Painting is done and with the additio...

Well as you can see the vinyl is going up nicely and the portion below the chair rail has its first coat of paint. After a long hard week it...

The Erie room finished getting mud and now the knockdown texture is being applied. A coat of primer this afternoon and paint tomorrow and th...

Day 5 is underway. Finished priming a few spots early today and now the vinyl crew has begun the process of putting the new vinyl around the...

BOSO Building services is here this morning to spray knockdown in the ballroom, prefunction area, and to mud the Erie room so it will be rea...

Day 4. The wall prep is basically complete. Everything is taped off and ready for the knockdown to be sprayed.

In addition to prepping the walls today we are working on cleaning. Wendy and Shannon were real troopers for sitting up on that scaffold scr...

Day 2. Time to start getting the walls ready for the new coverings. In addition to the inside of the ballroom we are recovering this wall ou...

Having good luck so far. The vinyl is coming off nicely and there will not be a huge amount of prep work before the new vinyl can go on. Day...

Just a couple hours in. Chair rail and baseboard came off easily. Now onto the Vinyl.

At approximately 10:00am on Sunday, May 2nd Barkers Island Inn began a series of renovations and upgrades. Phase 1 of this project is remode...