It’s time to spruce your home bar with one of these home bar essential tools and accessories. Now that the party season has started, that special area where you keep the fun fuel, aka alcohol and spirits requires some love and attention. All these bar essentials are not only necessary but also beautiful.
Impress your guest with this beautiful Midcentury Vogue blue Persian cocktail set with shaker available here.
Styling a home bar for a gracious entertaining is as important as the result of the cocktails you create. As I’m sure most people know, there are two types of home bar. Wet bar is a planned built-in station with sink for quickly washing glasses and fresh ingredients. A wet bar also provides the necessary water pipes for what I believe is the king of cocktail mixing; an ice maker. Whichever home bar you decide to have here are these stylish home bar ideas and how to style a home bar.
A Dry bar however is a lot simpler and easier to set up and style. It can easily be arranged in many different ways and areas of the home. It can be as easy as setting up a tray on top of a sideboard and use the drawers of the sideboard for storing glasses and home bar tools. As you can see in the image above the sideboard which belongs to Aerin Lauder, works as a perfect surface for displaying a few drinks and glasses.
I know what you’re thinking: that the party season is over, therefore, this post about beautiful home bars is now useless and unnecessary. I have to respectfully disagree: now is when many people with unreasonably-set resolutions will need a bar in their homes. I’m referring to those that soon after the second month start conceiving the idea that it may be impossible to lose 20 pounds in three months. There are different types of home bars. The bar cart is still in its heydays, mostly in small cities where space is scarce and it’s important to be able to move things around whenever possible. Cabinet bars is my favorite option, they provide the choice of encasing everything when not being used. For grown-ups a.k.a., really serious entertainers and hosts there is the option of wet bars with sinks and everything.
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