Record 09 / 15 · VIC
Hop Heads
A neighbourhood bar built around custom bar joinery, commissioned murals and a dark timber palette.
VIC · Bar- Sector
- Bar
- Location
- Point Cook
- State
- VIC
- Completion
- On record
The brief
What the job asked for
Hop Heads is a neighbourhood bar in Point Cook with a personality bigger than its floor plate. The brief: a local with real character — somewhere dark, warm and made, not themed.
Bars live or die on their service line, so the joinery had to come first: bar, storage and back-of-house built around how the room actually pours, stocks and serves.
The build
From drawing to trading day
Custom bar and storage joinery anchor the service line, drawn around the working positions behind the bar and the stock that has to live within reach. The joinery is the architecture here — the room organises itself around it.
A commissioned artist’s murals give the walls their voice, while timbers, tiles, black laminex and designer lighting keep the room moody without losing the warmth a local deserves.
On the record
As built, on the books
On the books, Hop Heads is the hospitality record that shows the range of the joinery shop — from hospital cafes to a dark, mural-walled local — same drawings-first method, very different room.
Gallery
Hop Heads — on site
