Peek Inside Farmhouse Restaurant

Murals, reclaimed barn wood and a "beerador" are going up this week inside Farmhouse restaurant at 703 Church St.

Owner TJ Callahan says he expects to open the farm-to-table restaurant by the end of June.

The beerador is an 8-foot-tall refrigerator designed to look like a bottle of beer and was manufactured in Buffalo, NY. Callahan says he found it in western Pennsylvania, where it had been sitting in someone's garage for the past 20 years. The restaurant will store a lineup of craft beer on the beerador's shelves behind the bar.

All of the wood inside the restaurant comes from farms in southwest Wisconsin, according Callahan. Other reclaimed materials include tin ceiling panels from an abandoned furniture factory on Chicago's west side.

"The ethos is kind of 'adapt and reuse,' Callahan says.

Artist Peter Hurley is painting several murals for the restaurant, including a parade of farmhouse animals on reclaimed barn wood that serves as the restaurant's front door. Hurley also designed a mural after Callahan's farmhouse in Wisconsin, called Brown Dog Farm. A triptych mural on the restaurant's second floor is designed to simulate old vintage advertisements.

"It's a lot of fun to express both my vision and the vision of the owner," Hurley says.

The restaurant takes up two floors on the southwest side of the Hilton Orrington and has multiple small rooms, including a "snug," designed after an Irish bar. The snug connects to the bar through a window where patrons can order drinks.