Decorating & Renovating
MagPie 1986
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Converting a wetbar
We're buying a house that has a pretty dated wetbar. I was thinking of converting this into built in shelves but don't have any experience in this. We're not very handy people but my dad is and would probably help us out. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas for what to do with an old wetbar.
Re: Converting a wetbar
i think we'd be able to help more and give ideas if we had photos of the space
As a blanket statement i'd suggest turning to google images, pinterest, or houzz.com to come up with ideas. my first thought would be to simply renovate the wet bar -- its a nice thing to have in a home!
we actually turned a closet into a dry bar due to a pinterest/houzz photo i had found...
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We're not in the home yet so I don't have pictures. I was just looking for more ideas of what we can do. I don't want to just renovate it. A wet bar would never get used by us and are a little dated, IMO. I tried google and didn't get any good ideas.
We were thinking of just removing the sink and turning it into built-in shelves but I didn't know if anyone else has ever tried the same.
Is it in your dining room? Living room? Family room?
I like the built-in shelves idea. I would go for some overhead lighting and then do glass shelves...the light pouring through would be really neat, and eye catching and you could use the space to highlight a collection, glass ware, etc.
If your home is short on closets and it wouldn't look weird in the room to have doors, I might consider doing that too.
go to Houzz.com as another poster suggested.
I suppose to clarify, i should say that our bar we created was in the middle of the dining room, where previous owners had a closet that looked SO out of place.we also have NO storage in the dining room whatsoever as it is an open layout house.
we also renovated our kitchen and added storage -- the old kitchen barely had any!
soooo in our case, it worked out really well. we use the top glass cabinet in the bar for all of our glassware. the drawer holds wine openers, drink accessories, as well as some of our more formal serving utensils (pasta scoop, salad tongs, etc). the bottom cabinet holds all the liquor and wine, and some snack bowls.
if you weren't big drinkers, you could convert it to a dry bar to still make use of the counterspace - use the shelves for glassware storage, and the bottom for servingware, table linens, additional kitchen storage or holiday storage...anything, really! depending where the bar is in the house - if it's by an entryway, it would make a good organization station for calendars, phone chargers, etc.
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