Tiny homes are pretty much commonplace these days. They\u2019re efficient, cheap and ecologically correct. But tiny bars? John Walsh from Galway, Ireland has taken the tiny home concept one step further. He\u2019s built a fleet of four tiny pubs, each one patterned after an Irish cottage and fitted out with the appropriate interior. They look like the real thing complete with flocked wallpaper, padded upholstery and working taps, only smaller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the old Irish pubs. I probably spent too much time in them in my youth,\u201d says Walsh, a trained cabinet maker who started his tiny fleet of shebeens on a whim. Shebeen is the Irish word for an illegal public house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy original plan at the time was to make this a kids\u2019 playhouse,\u201d he says referring to the first of the four, The Burren, \u201cbut I didn\u2019t have any kids so I said maybe I\u2019ll turn it into some sort of a bar. I gave up the drink three months before I started building The Burren and after the first or second month I said alright, this is something I want to work on. So instead of going to the pub on a Saturday afternoon, I came over here and worked a couple of hours on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n