Expansive Home Bar Ideas and Designs

The opposite wall in the living room features a wet bar that includes two full-sized wine refrigerators, sink, storage cabinets, and shelving, as well as plenty of open floor space to entertain. The tall dark blue painted cabinetry helps to visually balance the room, as a large, bold design element opposite the fireplace wall. The inlaid brass detail on the cabinet doors adds a touch of glamour to this more formal space. The focal point of the wet bar is the illuminated book-matched marble backsplash with custom floating brass and glass shelves.

Siesta Key outdoor kitchen, bar, pizza oven

Design Scapes

We created this award winning outdoor kitchen with refurbished pool deck and terraced landscaping. What was a steep inhospitable rear yard falling down to a canal, became an outdoor oasis for this family. 2015 Award of Excellence from the Natl. Assn. of Landscape Professionals.

Secluded in the City | West Linn Custom Home

Mountainwood Homes

Entertain in style with a versatile built-in coffee bar area. The cherry shaker cabinets and sleek white quartz countertops work for casual coffee mornings and evening cocktail parties.

Adult Game Room with Bar and retractable wall theater

Landmark Custom Builder & Remodeling, LLC

Open concept almost full kitchen (no stove), seating, game room and home theater with retractable walls- enclose for a private screening or open to watch the big game. Reunion Resort Kissimmee FL Landmark Custom Builder & Remodeling Home currently for sale contact Maria Wood (352) 217-7394 for details

Elegant Entertaining

BlueStone Construction, LLC

The major objective of this home was to craft something entirely unique; based on our client’s international travels, and tailored to their ideal lifestyle. Every detail, selection and method was individual to this project. The design included personal touches like a dog shower for their Great Dane, a bar downstairs to entertain, and a TV tucked away in the den instead of on display in the living room. Great design doesn’t just happen. It’s a product of work, thought and exploration. For our clients, they looked to hotels they love in New York and Croatia, Danish design, and buildings that are architecturally artistic and ideal for displaying art. Our part was to take these ideas and actually build them. Every door knob, hinge, material, color, etc. was meticulously researched and crafted. Most of the selections are custom built either by us, or by hired craftsman.

Memorial Riad

Marion Interior Design

Design ideas for an expansive mediterranean breakfast bar in Houston with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, black cabinets, brown splashback, medium hardwood flooring and black worktops.

Modern Luxury Home

Nandina Home & Design

Featuring hardwood floors, blue, white and grey upholstered transitional furniture, contemporary style and bold patterns. Project designed by Atlanta interior design firm, Nandina Home & Design. Their Sandy Springs home decor showroom and design studio also serves Midtown, Buckhead, and outside the perimeter. Photography by: Shelly Schmidt For more about Nandina Home & Design, click here: https://nandinahome.com/ To learn more about this project, click here: https://nandinahome.com/portfolio/modern-luxury-home/

K2 Ranch

Studio 133

David O. Marlow
This is an example of an expansive contemporary breakfast bar in Denver with a submerged sink, shaker cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartz worktops, brown splashback, wood splashback, dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Elk Peak Ranch

Structural Associates

David O. Marlow Photography
Photo of an expansive rustic breakfast bar in Denver with dark wood cabinets, dark hardwood flooring, brown floors and recessed-panel cabinets.

VILLA VENTOSA

Tina Mellino- ZIA INTERIORS

Photo of an expansive mediterranean galley breakfast bar in Phoenix with raised-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, mirror splashback, dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Long Island House

Indecor Professional Inc.

Expansive traditional u-shaped breakfast bar in New York with dark wood cabinets, a built-in sink, wood worktops, brown splashback, wood splashback and dark hardwood flooring.

Rustic Luxury

Aneka Interiors Inc.

Photo of an expansive rustic single-wall breakfast bar in Denver with a submerged sink, shaker cabinets, dark wood cabinets, granite worktops, red splashback, stone tiled splashback and slate flooring.

Addition Featuring Full Bar and NanoWall

Amiano & Son Construction, LLC

Expansive rustic single-wall breakfast bar in Philadelphia with dark wood cabinets, wood worktops, multi-coloured splashback, stone tiled splashback, concrete flooring and shaker cabinets.

Basement Bar Counter

FBC Remodel

©Finished Basement Company
Expansive traditional home bar in Chicago with dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Contemporary Bar & Display

Lustig Custom Cabinets

Maple cabinetry in a dark stain with shaker style doors, granite tops & white stacked stone back splash. Double beverage coolers, wine storage, margarita machine lifter & pull out storage. Portraits by Mandi

Philharmonic House of Design Theater, Entertainment Room & Bar

Marc Pridmore Designs

Photo of an expansive classic home bar in Orange County.

Private Scotch Collection

Robert R. Larsen, Architect

Elliptical tasting bar and shelving for the display of a collection of 4800 bottles of scotch in a private residence. All woodwork custom designed by Robert R. Larsen, A.I.A. Carpet was custom made to match the client's Scottish tartan plaid. Fiber-optic lights illuminate the plaques above the elliptical bar. Ron Ruscio Photo

Private Scotch Collection

Robert R. Larsen, Architect

Miniature bottles line the entryway to this private scotch collection. All woodwork custom designed by Robert R. Larsen, A.I.A. Carpet was custom made to match the client's Scottish tartan plaid. Ron Ruscio Photo

Wandbündige Schiebetüre, elektrisch öffnend

moessmer doors

L`invisibile
Photo of an expansive contemporary single-wall breakfast bar in Munich with white cabinets, glass worktops, mirror splashback, concrete flooring and grey floors.

So much storage

Collaroy Kitchen Centre

This renovation included kitchen, laundry, powder room, with extensive building work.
Design ideas for an expansive classic l-shaped home bar in Sydney with shaker cabinets, blue cabinets, engineered stone countertops, white splashback, engineered quartz splashback, laminate floors, brown floors and white worktops.

Expansive Home Bar 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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