You might have a friend with a bar in their home, or perhaps a couple of pieces of pub furniture - a poseur table or a couple of bar stools, for instance.
But one Devon couple have spent 15 years building their own pub - yes, a complete pub, built across two storeys in an extension to their home.
From the outside you might think the new part of their house is just extra living space, with the outside walls painted to blend in with the rest of the building.
Inside though, the new space is 'Randalls Tavern', a two-storey pub complete with all of the fixtures and fittings you might expect.
That includes the proper pub furniture, pool table, air hockey, fruit machines and a collection of 2,000 glasses so no matter what you have to drink, it's served in the proper way.
Significantly, the couple, Simon and Donna Randall, do not sell anything - their 'pub' is just for family and friends to enjoy - so there are no licensing restrictions.
But in every other sense it is akin to a real pub, with some of the furnishings reclaimed from working pubs that have closed their doors permanently or for refurbishment over the past 15 years.
"It was quite exciting getting it all out of the loft," Donna told reporters. "We collected it over a number of years so we forgot what we had got; it was almost like Christmas."
And according to Simon, the inspiration was to build the kind of drinking hole "you don't see any more" but where he would like to spend his spare time.
The project isn't over - and the Randalls are still asking for help from any pubs that might be about to undergo a refurb, as reported by the North Devon Journal.
So if you're buying new pub furniture and want to save some space in your skip, they might be interested in adding any authentic unwanted items to their own fixtures and fittings.
They'll be going to a good home, as Simon says: "Some of these things need to be looked after and I'm surprised there isn't a brewery museum somewhere."