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What we do
We take the room you love and give it a voice, a glow, and a story. Every build is designed from scratch around your space, your collection, and your kind of fun.
A custom AI personality — voice, wit, and all — who greets your guests, narrates your collection, and never forgets a story.
Intelligent lighting that spotlights a single bottle on command, sets the mood for the night, or plays the game right along with you.
Interactive games built around what's on your shelves — lights, sound effects, and a narrator with perfect timing.
A 360° virtual twin of your space that friends anywhere can walk through, tap around, and hear the stories behind.
The Bourbon Room
A private bourbon collection in South Dakota, transformed: 54 bottles, each with its own story told in the voice of Sam — the room's resident host — plus a wiseass AI bartender, a Press-Your-Luck bottle game, and lighting that can find any pour in the dark. Don't take our word for it — the room is open. Step in below.
Walk the actual room from any phone or browser. Tap a glowing bottle and Sam tells you what it is, why it matters, and how it drinks.
● Live — take the tour
Four hosts, four completely different nights. Pick who’s pouring before the doors open, or let your guests switch hosts mid-conversation.
Meet the Guys
Per-bottle spotlighting wired into the shelves — ask for the Van Winkle and watch it light up. Full-room moods for everything else.
Every bottle searchable on the room's tablet — tap one and get Sam's notes and narration, synced to the same catalog the tour uses.
Meet the Bartenders
Your host is one of a kind — a voice, a backstory, and an attitude built to fit your room. Here are seven we’ve brought to life. Tap one and let them introduce themselves.
A wiseass with a bourbon education and zero filter. He’ll bust your chops, then pour you something that makes up for it.
The laconic old hand. He’s seen every kind of night, remembers every story, and never rushes a good one.
Dry, precise, and faintly impatient. He runs the bar like a fine instrument — and picks better than you would.
A hushed nature-documentary narrator who studies the room — and its guests — like rare and wonderful wildlife.
The storyteller. He pours slow and talks slower — and somewhere in the tale, you forget which drink you came in for.
The crowd-work kid. He doesn’t do bits, he does you — reads the room, clocks the one detail everybody missed, and builds the night out of it.
Pure enthusiasm, no irony. He breaks a pour down like fourth-quarter game film — and he’ll take the bottom-shelf workhorse over the waxed-up trophy bottle every time.
Set the Scene
Every night has a mood, and the room takes its cue from you. Behind a private code on the house tablet, you tell the bar how tonight should go — who’s pouring, how sharp their tongue is, and who’s walking through the door. Then the lights come down, and the room plays it exactly the way you called it.
Guests never see this screen — it sits behind its own code on the house tablet. Set it once before they arrive; the bar follows it all night.
The CMN Hospital Charity Build
Every August, Ace Hardware stores across the country build a display out of five-gallon buckets to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Kopetsky’s Ace Hardware in Yankton, South Dakota built a full-size chopper — eleven feet nine of PVC pipe, spray foam, storage containers and barbecue pans — and rode it across a bucket-built replica of the Discovery Bridge. We told the story.
Modeled after the iconic American panhead-style V-twin and built at 1.6× life size — a 96″ wheelbase on a frame of 2.5″ PVC. The handlebars were bent by pouring 450° sand down the pipe from the top of a stepladder.
A 45° V-twin assembled from roughly 250 stacked storage containers, with aluminum roasting pans for rocker covers and a range burner cover for the air cleaner. The container rims are the cooling fins.
The bucket columns are the stone pylons of Yankton’s Discovery Bridge, and the black mat down the middle is the roadway, centre line and all. The bike isn’t parked — it’s crossing.
A three-minute build film, narrated in Sam’s voice, that plays in-store beside the bike — from bare white pipe on the shop floor to the finished machine.
Built by the crew at Kopetsky’s Ace Hardware. Tires donated by Graham Tire. The Vault produced the film, the photography archive and the build specification — the parts that let a one-off build be remembered, entered, and built again.