Vintage Bar Cart: Styled For Spring

For a while now, my bar cart has sat mostly empty. I don’t drink hard liquor very often, so I’ve had two lone bottles of liquor hanging out on my bar cart. Not much of a bar cart, huh?

Well, I finally got tired of looking at my sadly “styled” bar cart and decided to spruce it up. I didn’t spend any money on new stuff; I just gathered up items from around the house. Here’s how I styled my bar cart for spring, plus a few tips for styling your own bar cart.

1. Use a tray to organize

Placing a tray on the bottom shelf of my bar cart helps it look organized. The tray corrals my two bottles of liquor (pathetic), shot glasses and other bar supplies together. Now all of those random items look neat and organized instead of like a jumbled mess. (Here’s another idea for using a tray on your bar cart.)

2. Line up glasses

Arranging your wine, martini and champagne glasses in neat rows will immediately improve the look of your bar cart. It worked for me. I had originally tried lining up the glasses in the tray, but I like the look of them freestanding on the shelf better.

3. Fill space with plants (when the cart’s not in use)

I’ve had the darndest time making my bar cart look nice when it’s not in use.

When I am using the bar cart for making drinks, I style the top with the supplies I need. I’ll put out a cutting board and a small bowl of lemons and limes. I might add some napkins and a cup with straws.

But when I’m not using the cart, all of that stuff goes away. And the top of the cart sits empty. And ugly.

Since it’s springtime, I figured why not style the top of the bar cart with some pretty houseplants? So I did. That was a serious improvement. With just two houseplants and a folded over cloth napkin, the top of my bar cart now looks stylish and put together.

What do you think of how I styled my bar cart? Tell me about it in the comments!\

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