Dry Bar with Laminate Floors Ideas and Designs

Modern Coffee bar located in the kitchen, however facing away from it allowing this to have its own place in the home. Marble MCM style tile with floating shelves and custom cabinets.

Miradero on Lake Hartwell

Chapman Design Group, Inc.

Bar

Rudolph Dadey

Gracious Home Interiors

Beautifully designed kitchen bar with antiqued glass front on upper cabinetry. Designed and styled by Gracious Home Interiors in Charlotte, NC.

Beautiful Built-in Walnut Dry Bar

Well Done Builds

This beautiful bar was built to give you the full feel of a bar or restaurant. Built with all walnut wood products this piece brings a beauty to your home that you never had before!

Basement Finish | Buffalo, MN

LakeWood Homes & Remodeling

Modern Farmhouse Coffee Nook Bar With Hexagon Tile

Brashear Construction & Design

Basement and Patio Remodel in Annandale, VA

Schroeder Design/Build, Inc.

Basement dry bar with open shelving and beverage refrigerators.

Transitional Meadow Forest

Morning Star Builders LTD

Bourbon room, brick accent walls, open drum hanging light fixture, white painted baseboard, opens to outdoor living space and game room

Rustic Basement update

Riegis Design Co. LLC

Apartment Renovation | 200 Central Park S

Tumen, Inc.

Home bar

Santa Ynez Family Home Remodel

DesignArt Studios

This space was perfect for open shelves and wine cooler to finish off the large adjacent kitchen.

Walnut and White Built Ins

Home Bar

La vivienda tiene un pequeño espacio de bar entre el salón y la cocina.

Butler's Pantry

Kitchen Rehab

Wakefield Kitchen Remodel

Halco Showroom

Butler's Pantry

Kitchen Rehab

Here is our subtop and typically how we do an install. This top was tricky to get in there as there is a wall to the left and right. The top has to be slightly undersized without being so undersized that the backsplash doesn't cover the difference.

Calhoun Canyon

Cameron Getter Design

This design project incorporated a home bar area off the kitchen/living space, with the addition of a bar cabinet, floating shelves, an arched wall mirror, framed artwork, glassware and accessories styling.

A Growing Family’s Retreat

Duke Homes, Inc.

A custom wet bar is hidden by a sliding barn door off the home's main level living room.

Red Pine Condo remodel

Shearer Designs

Modern small bar and storage cabinets with waterfall quartz misterio countertop.

Dry Bar with Laminate Floors Ideas and Designs

A home bar is one of the ultimate indulgences for a homeowner. By no means essential but all the more satisfying for that very reason. Whether your home bar ideas would be having the boys round to watch the big match in a pub-style atmosphere on a Saturday afternoon, ‘going uptown’ to sip an espresso martini in your home cocktail bar in the loft, or hoping to recreate the vibe of an intimate speakeasy in your basement, a style home bar is a treat that’s guaranteed to lift your spirits. A place where you are always guaranteed a seat.

How big should my home bar be?

The ideal style of your home bar will depend on your lifestyle and entertaining habits as well as the amount of available space. If big groups come round regularly then you should consider dedicating a part of your living room or basement to a larger seating area – complete with a bar table, bar stools and wet bar section – to keep everyone suitably comfortable and merry. If TV is essential, check if there is a wall nearby that’s a big enough to mount it on without restricting anyone’s view. A key feature of home bar ideas is the storage – gleaming wine racks and low-lit glass shelves. Make sure you can afford these little delights after you have built the basic structure. Alternatively, if space is limited, a freestanding home cocktail bar would give you somewhere to prepare cocktails that is out of the way – in the corner of your dining room or under the stairwell for instance. Also, mirrored surfaces can help to create the illusion of space. Sketch the layout of the room in which you would like to place the bar and think about where all those bottles, cans and snacks are going to go. Then speak to either a home bar specialist about your home bar ideas, or to a joiner about adapting a vintage bookcase or creating something bespoke.

What style of home bar should I choose?

Try to play off the interior decor of the surrounding area. A kitsch Manhattan-inspired home cocktail bar will look out of place in a country cottage, for example. Similarly, a long white walnut home bar would jar against a bright red contemporary kitchen. That said, contrast might be something that you accentuate, not least through the choice of flooring, which would help to make your home bar stand out. Collect home bar ideas in an Ideabook, settle upon a theme and then discuss the design with your home bar specialist or joiner. Lighting sets the mood in bars, particularly late at night, so pay special attention to placement, intensity and how you want your guests to feel. Dim underbar lighting creates a warm, intimate atmosphere, while spotlights brighten and energise.

Which home bar accessories and facilities should I include?

This really does depend on how far you are willing to go. A home bar can replicate almost everything you see in your local, from running water and refrigerated wine cabinets to draught beer pumps and bespoke lighting and a sound systems. Again, the most important thing is to work with what’s there – available space and home decor. Is that black lizard effect leather flooring really going to go? How about the turquoise splashback? Do those flowers look out of place or will they help to soften up what’s fast becoming a man cave? There are several ways to make a home bar more visually interesting without spending big on fixtures and fittings. Select furniture that’s comfortable but also sparks interest, such as salvaged chairs or a second-hand leather sofa. Add a touch of glitz and glamour through your choice of glassware, drinks trolley, ice bucket, shaker and spirit bottles if you want the home cocktail bar look. Then scatter a few curios around the bar – ornaments, lamps, artwork, photos and travel mementos are great home bar ideas to get the conversation started.

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