We often love to create coziness in the house with our own hands. This applies to a lot: from creating jewelry to self-assembly of furniture and electronics. Indeed, when you do something yourself, it takes much less money, and the result will depend only on you and your efforts. As practice suggests , it is much more convenient and efficient. So, today we’ll talk about how to make a mini-bar with our own hands, so that it fits the interior, surroundings and our own mood.
A bit of history
Such a concept as a "bar" is firmly established in everyday life and is used everywhere in the world thanks to America. It was there that the owners of public alcoholic establishments were the first to realize that they would not earn money if visitors would sit for a long time in comfortable chairs with one glass of beer in their hand. Entrepreneurial Americans put the so-called barrier between visitors and racks with alcoholic drinks, and instead of comfortable low stools they set up high chairs, which were impossible to sit on for a long time, because people ordered drinks, quickly left and made room for new customers.
Over time, the word "barrier" has become obsolete and only the concept of "bar" has come into use by modern people. Together with the original name, the purpose has also changed. Currently, a bar is not so much an institution where you can drink, but a certain area in the house where characteristic drinks are stored. This is a bright and at the same time practical detail of the interior, showing the well-being of the house.
Types of bars
Before you make a mini-bar with your own hands, it is worth determining what types it happens:
- A stationary bar, that is, having its own permanent place, is suitable for you if you constantly receive a large number of guests at home. Such a bar often occupies an entire room and includes special furniture, dishes for drinking and making cocktails, a large number of shelves for alcohol, refrigerators and display cases.
- A mobile bar, or otherwise a minibar, can be assembled if you can’t allocate a whole room for these purposes. Most often, a minibar is a cabinet with an air conditioning system, which is used to store alcoholic beverages. It can be purchased in furniture stores or made independently from improvised materials. However, with a little analysis, anyone will come to the conclusion that it is better to lean towards the second option, since it is cheaper and more convenient in the sense that you yourself can figure out how it will look and where it will be located.
- A wheeled bar is a type of mobile bar. Such a device can be stored in some kind of closed place and removed only as needed. This minibar is suitable for residents of houses with limited space, but who really want to have a similar invention.
Where to place the minibar?
If you nevertheless decided that you need a mobile bar, and not a stationary one, then the next in line will be the question of where to place it. Here you should include all your imagination and go in search of interesting places in the house where you can theoretically place a minibar. These may be:
- places under the roof;
- unused wall niche;
- unallocated space under the stairs;
- balcony or loggia.
Before you study in detail how to make a mini-bar for your home with your own hands, you need to choose a place so that the future minibar fits perfectly and fits the interior of the whole room.
Selection of materials
The first step in any business is always planning. We must determine, firstly, what the future mini-bar will be made of and what size it will be, and, secondly, what we will store in it.
You can make a mini-bar with your own hands from wood, old chests of drawers or drawers, plastic or even from more exotic materials: PVC pipes or cart wheels. Many use metal canisters as a material for a minibar. But this option is more suitable for men, since such bars are usually placed in the garage - in their second house.
There are a lot of ideas for creating this interesting part of the interior. Therefore, you can borrow a few ideas by looking at the photo of mini-bars for the house in the article, and make them happen with your own hands.
The size of such a bar can also be varied. From a small box with a capacity of up to ten bottles, to a large rack. The main thing is not to overdo it and not to make a stationary bar instead of a mobile one.
DIY mini-bar assembly
Here, our designer vein is useful to us to choose what suits the interior, looks fresh and new. To make the assembly process more understandable, you need to consider it with a specific example. Do-it-yourself mini-bar can be assembled from absolutely any material, but we will stop on the barrel. Yes, from an ordinary barrel you can make a very unusual mobile bar.
We need: a wooden barrel, wooden bars, a pen and all the necessary tools.
The process of assembling your own home mini-bar with your own hands is simple. All you need is:
- Put the barrel on its side.
- Cut a hole under the door in one of the walls.
- Using the hinges, attach the cut wooden piece to the base so that the door turns out.
- From wooden blocks to make shelves for bottles and glasses inside the barrel.
- Attach the handle to the door.
- If you want to make the resulting product. You can use paints, decorative taps or stickers.
- To build a rack on which the minibar will be located. It can be made from wooden or metal bars.
Any person can make a mini-bar according to the photo with their own hands, thereby decorating the homestead territory and the house.
How to fill the minibar?
Many people, for some reason, are convinced that if they have a minibar with which you can mix cocktails, then you definitely need to fill it with a wide variety of different alcoholic drinks. This, of course, is wrong.
It will be enough to buy only some of the basic and most popular and necessary options: classic vodka, cognac, brandy and liquor. In addition, you should always store several liters of apple, citrus and grapefruit juice, Coca-Cola, strawberry syrup and cream. When you create cocktails, some professional gadgets will also come in handy:
- shaker - a special glass for mixing;
- strainer - a sieve for separating pulp and ice from a cocktail;
- a bar spoon - a long spoon;
- corkscrew.
You do not need to purchase many varieties of glasses, only three will be enough: rox, highbull and a glass.
Conclusion
Thus, we learned how to make a mini-bar with our own hands at home, equip it for ourselves and furnish it with necessary things for our own convenience.
Of course, the minibar will always be inferior in practicality to the same static bar, but to compare them, in our opinion, is not permissible. They serve different purposes, perform completely different functions and even differ significantly in price.
The minibar is an interesting and practical thing that you can build yourself and thus bring a new detail to the interior.