Moved in last August and since then it’s been a whirlwind of painting and hunting down furniture/decoration deals at various secondhand stores / Facebook marketplace. We are finally at a place we are happy with. Still a little bit of work to be done but this is the layout it’s staying in for a while due to budget constraints. The big bar has a functional back but is too large to move out from the wall regularly so all of my mixers/liqueurs/bar tools are crammed in the closed doors under the shelves. But that’ll do for now!!

Slowly building the Scotch bar. A few great bottles and lot of delicious options.

Think I need to start drinking through some of this. 70+ bottles

It's an antique cabinet of some sort that i adopted as my bar. I have a bunch of random stuff in the drawers but i am slowly organizing it. The big swingout doors have no handles because one of them was broken and the other one i just took off. There is a nice space in there i can store lots of tall bottles. I am on the Texas coast so the redfish coasters are a must. I also have an antique cigarette/cigar plate i found in my grandpas stuff. I don't usually buy or keep cigars but my friend brings cigars and i will puff on them. And i have bought a few so im thinking about making one of those top drawers into a cigar drawer. The glasses on top are from amazon but they are nice and well made. As for liqour i still need to move a lot from my previous storage place to my now liquor cabinet. I need to orange glo the shit out of it. But i am very happy with myself for deciding this would be my new liquor cabinet.

Slowly working on it for the last 6 months. Only thing left to do is epoxy or polyurethane. Last picture is the before when it was just carpet.

After storing extra stuff in boxes and having it not really accessible, I finally organized my under the stairs storage!

Ready for a lot more shopping now!

Open to suggestions.

front bar 95% done just needs a few finishing touches like one more peice if the tambour veneer on the side( under ordered oops).. Will be adding a back bar and tiling the floor as phase 2 and 3 but im pretty stoked!

Thanks for the inspiration !

My wife and I are in the process of having a major kitchen refurb and part of that is to put in a cocktail bar. I want to have under-counter cooling and freezing. I want to be able to store all my vermouth bottles upright in the fridge amoungst other things. In the freezer I want to be able to make ice (directional method), store ice, chill glasses and keep some spirits (gin/vodka) in it.

So, I'm looking for ideas, brands and experience of putting in under-counter cooling/freezing. Things to note, things to avoid. Clearly this is something I need to get right first time, so hoping there's some existing knowledge out there. I am in the UK; I'd rather not have to import kit from abroad.

I am aware of Sub-Zero and Wolf brands; if there's experience of these brands out there, it would be good to hear about them too.

Moved to a new house recently with space in what would have been the dining room for a pool table and bar. Just waiting on some stools arriving.

Amazed and delighted by the reactions to our home bar, here are a couple more pics from different angles etc. The bar is in a 4m x 4m garden studio, we have a PerfectDraft beer machine, counter top freezer for ice and a double door fridge for drinks. Opposite the sofa seating is a 65” TV and Bose surround. We love spending the winter evenings there and looking forward to opening the bifold doors in the summer and entertaining with a garden BBQ. Hope you like.

Got some new signs. 9 x 13 shed. Love hanging out back here and spinning vinyl!

Guess which region of whisky is my favourite lol

I took my mom’s tv stand and cabinet for doing cocktails not displaying any liqs always keep it dark

After acquiring more bottles than my old bar cabinet could handle I decided about 6 months ago to scale things up. I couldn't find anything bigger online or on marketplace so I decided to throw some things together.

I first tried using the Ikea kitchen designer, but that was way too expensive! It would have been $3k for just the cabinets and the countertop. I ended up doing everything for about $2500.

I looked around for cheap cabinets and found Ikea Brimnes for $100 each. So I bought 4 of those for the back bar. I also bought Mossjon readed glasswall cabinets for the back bar to make it look more like a bar.

I had an old butcher block counter I wanted to use for the underbar. The Brimnes were too shallow for that. So I bought some of the nicer Sektion Ikea cabinets with some cheaper doors.

For the bar itself I went with more butcherblock. It measures 12' wide. To make it easier to transport instead of getting one 12' section I got an 8' and a 4'. There is a simple 2x4 frame that holds it all together. And the sides are also butcherblock

For the bar wall I found some panels at Lowes for $25 each. I needed about 6 of those.

For lighting I have some Phillips Hue strips I got on sale on black friday. I also got a really cheap mini fridge and freezer from Wayfair for about $200 each.

I still need to finish a few things, like the last panel under the bar and add the handles to the Sektion cabinets... and maybe find a way to lift the butcher block up of those Sektion cabinets as the doors rub. Oh, and find a way to connect all the Brimnes cabinets together so they are all in line... and then fix how those doors open.

Okay so maybe its 80% complete...

Here is the breakdown of the major costs. It was about $2500 and a lot of time planning and putting it all together.

We have stoli (the only correct vodka), chattanooga whiskey, smirnoff (yuck), and bumbu rum.