Home Bar with Open Cabinets Ideas and Designs

This masculine and modern Onyx Nuvolato marble bar and feature wall is perfect for hosting everything from game-day events to large cocktail parties. The onyx countertops and feature wall are backlit with LED lights to create a warm glow throughout the room. The remnants from this project were fashioned to create a matching backlit fireplace. Open shelving provides storage and display, while a built in tap provides quick access and easy storage for larger bulk items.

Corian Riverbed Bar

Maxwell Counters Inc.

Corian Riverbed
Inspiration for a medium sized traditional galley wet bar in Chicago with composite countertops, brown splashback, a submerged sink, open cabinets, grey cabinets, dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Mill Valley Cottage to Home Transformation

Jetton Construction, Inc.

This property was transformed from an 1870s YMCA summer camp into an eclectic family home, built to last for generations. Space was made for a growing family by excavating the slope beneath and raising the ceilings above. Every new detail was made to look vintage, retaining the core essence of the site, while state of the art whole house systems ensure that it functions like 21st century home. This home was featured on the cover of ELLE Décor Magazine in April 2016. G.P. Schafer, Architect Rita Konig, Interior Designer Chambers & Chambers, Local Architect Frederika Moller, Landscape Architect Eric Piasecki, Photographer

1816 Knights Chance Lane

Laurel Haven Homes

Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary single-wall wet bar in Austin with medium wood cabinets, composite countertops, porcelain flooring and open cabinets.

Minimalistic Mid Century

VARA Design

Midcentury Modern Home Lounge Area Built-in Bar and Bookshelves
Medium sized retro single-wall wet bar in Chicago with no sink, open cabinets, orange cabinets, stainless steel worktops, light hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Basement bar

R|House Design Build

Photo of a large traditional breakfast bar in Minneapolis with open cabinets, black cabinets, granite worktops, multi-coloured splashback, dark hardwood flooring, stone tiled splashback and black floors.

The Eaton Post and Beam Carriage House

Yankee Barn Homes

Yankee Barn Homes - The upper level of the carriage house is a space intended friends, family and fun!
Design ideas for a medium sized traditional single-wall breakfast bar in Manchester with open cabinets, dark wood cabinets, wood worktops and light hardwood flooring.

Point Loma Casita

Ike Kligerman Barkley

William Waldron
Inspiration for a midcentury single-wall breakfast bar in New York with a submerged sink, open cabinets, composite countertops, light hardwood flooring, beige floors and mirror splashback.

Project Meadowood

HouseMill Design

Design ideas for a contemporary home bar in Austin with open cabinets, medium wood cabinets, concrete flooring and grey floors.

Outdoor Bar and Grill

DeGoey Designs

Design ideas for a small contemporary breakfast bar in Other with open cabinets, light wood cabinets, concrete worktops, brick flooring, grey floors and grey worktops.

Stone Canyon

Kym Rodger Design

Inspiration for an expansive contemporary u-shaped breakfast bar in Los Angeles with open cabinets, mirror splashback, dark hardwood flooring, brown floors, beige cabinets and granite worktops.

Upper East Side, NYC

The Rinfret Group

Small classic single-wall bar cart in New York with no sink, open cabinets, dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Bar Area

VIN GADOURY CONSTRUCTION INC

1926 Colonial Renovation
Photo of a traditional wet bar in Boston with a submerged sink, open cabinets, medium wood cabinets and marble worktops.

Turkey Farm

Akar ARchiTecture

Farshid Assassi
Medium sized contemporary single-wall home bar in Cedar Rapids with a submerged sink, open cabinets, light wood cabinets, composite countertops, mirror splashback, marble flooring and black floors.

SLAM / REITZ

Buckeye Basements, Inc.

The installation of LED strip lighting along the risers creates ample accent lighting in a variety of colors, which can be controlled via remote. -Photo by Jack Figgins

Contemporary New Home Design & Build

Icon Projects Ltd.

Rec room, bunker, theatre room, man cave - whatever you call this room, it has one purpose and that is to kick back and relax. This almost 17' x 30' room features built-in cabinetry to hide all of your home theatre equipment, a u-shaped bar, custom bar back with LED lighting, and a custom floor to ceiling wine rack complete with powder-coated pulls and hardware. Spanning over 320 sq ft and with 19 ft ceilings, this room is bathed with sunlight from four huge horizontal windows. Built-ins and bar are Black Panther (OC-68), both are Benjamin Moore colors. Flooring supplied by Torlys (Colossia Pelzer Oak).

Modern Magnetism

P&H Interiors

This is an example of a contemporary u-shaped breakfast bar in Miami with a submerged sink, brown floors and open cabinets.

Novak Project

Aurora Technology

Photo of a large urban single-wall breakfast bar in Omaha with open cabinets, brick splashback, concrete flooring, grey floors, medium wood cabinets and granite worktops.

Manor Road Residence

Aspect Design Build

spacecrafting
Large traditional single-wall breakfast bar in Minneapolis with a submerged sink, open cabinets, engineered stone countertops, green splashback, glass tiled splashback, dark hardwood flooring and brown floors.

Modern Home Bar

Covenant Kitchens & Baths, Inc.

pantry, floating shelves,
Inspiration for a medium sized classic single-wall wet bar in Other with a submerged sink, open cabinets, grey cabinets, wood worktops, grey splashback, glass tiled splashback and medium hardwood flooring.

Home Bar with Open Cabinets 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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