Besides the convenience of crafting a cocktail on demand, I like having a bar cart because it adds extra storage in a stylish way. The trick is to keep your bar cart from getting messy. I see lots of pretty pictures and pins of fabulously styled bar carts. But I need mine to be practical as well as stylish. I use mine to store wine glasses, shot glasses, alcohol bottles and other odds and ends every day. My bar cart isn’t just for looking good in pictures. It adds extra storage space to my already bursting-at-the-seams kitchen. Here are my tips for styling your bar cart for the everyday. 1. Use a tray This simple wooden tray keeps my random assortment of shot glasses, wine glasses and mini liquor bottles looking organized. It corrals everything together, so items stay put. 2. Line up bottles Bar carts have to have some booze, right? Well, the trick to keeping all of those bottles from looking messy is to line them up in neat rows. So simple. But it makes a big difference. 3. Use containers Containers, such as mason jars and bowls, are great for storing smaller items on your bar cart....
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...
Bar Cart Styling: Picture Frame Tray
For a while now I’ve been intending to create a stylish bar cart. I have a vintage cart that I found at Goodwill for $4 ages ago. At my old apartment I used the cart as a kitchen cart to hold my KitchenAid mixer and other odds and ends. In fact, this vintage cart was one of my favorite thrift store finds ever. But since I moved to my new home, it has just sat lonely in the sunroom accumulating junk. But finally (finally!) I put in a bit of bar cart styling effort. It’s still far from the snazzy bar cart I’m imagining, but it’s getting there. Here’s what I did. I created a tray of sorts using a picture frame. By “created” I mean I got lucky. I was trying to figure out where I wanted to hang the picture frame and I set it down on the cart. Then inspiration struck. Why not use the picture frame as a tray to keep glasses organized on my bar cart? So that’s what I did. Lining up wine, martini and champagne glasses in rows looks nice, but I think this tray takes it one step farther. It’s just a...