IKEA Bar Cabinet and Bar Cart Hacks

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Transforming IKEA furniture into a Home Bar is one of the most popular DIY you can do. On our site, we feature a wide variety of IKEA hacking projects that show you how to  transform regular IKEA furniture into stylish and functional bar cabinets, carts, accessories and more.

From repurposing a bookshelf into a wine rack to turning a dresser into a bar cabinet, these IKEA hacks provide endless inspiration for those looking to create a unique and personalized bar area in their home.

If you're not quite ready for a full-fledged IKEA hack, try your hand at an easy Bar Cart hack. When you need a larger cabinet for your drinks collection, this beautiful IKEA Liquor Cabinet hack will store and display your bottles and glassware.

Scroll down for more stylish IKEA bar cabinet and bar cart ideas now.

IKEA Bar Cart Hacks

IKEA VITTSJO laptop table turned into classy gold bar cart

IKEA VITTSJO laptop table turned into classy gold bar cart

This Bar Cart will be made with 2 x VITTSJÖ laptop desks. They are relatively cheap so it will all be worth it in the end. A comparable bar cart can easily run from $300-$600 retail. So this will be…

IKEA Bar Cabinet Hacks

IVAR goes from Scandi to Chinoiserie Cabinet

IVAR goes from Scandi to Chinoiserie Cabinet

I recently made a chinoiserie cabinet out of the IKEA IVAR wooden cabinet. It’s an eye-catching storage sideboard which opens up into a home bar cabinet. Materials: 20″ deep IVAR cabinet Two 20″ x 49″ IVAR side units An extra…

Kitchen Wall Cabinet to Modern Mini Bar

Kitchen Wall Cabinet to Modern Mini Bar

Materials 2 each Kitchen Wall Cabinet and Doors and glass…

Narrow STÄLL bar

Narrow STÄLL bar

Materials: STÄLL shoe cabinets (both the taller deeper 3-comparment one…

ikea bar cabinet hack

How to hack a bar cabinet from IKEA HEMNES (with hidden door slides)

The IKEA HEMNES wardrobe was perfect for our conversion into…

DIY Bar Tables

Expedit drinks bar: Inspired by another post

Expedit drinks bar: Inspired by another post

This bar would not have been possible without the original post. Items from Ikea 1 – EXPEDIT Shelving unit, high gloss white…

Light Bar Design

Light Bar Design

Materials: Lack Shelf, Ullrik black, Dioder, Plexiglas plate, drill, bracket, screws, anti slip Description: 1. Mount Lack Shelf (height :…

Expedit Bar Hack

Expedit Bar Hack

Materials: Expedit Description: We bought the black brown expedit unit and attached runners to hang the champagne glasses from (also…

DIY Wine Racks and Hacks

Discreet wine rack from Ribba

Discreet wine rack from Ribba

I have very little space in my kitchen but really wanted a wine rack. I took two lengths of Ribba picture rail and attached these to the back of the downstand above the alcove. The picture rail holds bottles of…

3D printed bracket for smaller bottles in Hutten wine rack

3D printed bracket for smaller bottles in Hutten wine rack

Materials: HUTTEN wine rack I had some smaller bottles that…

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

Materials: EXPEDIT 4×4 (2) Description: We decided to remodel our…

DiY Expedit Wine Rack

DiY Expedit Wine Rack

Materials: Expedit 2X1, 4″ PvC Pipe, Under Cabinet Drinkware Holder…

All our IKEA Bar Hacks

Expedit drinks bar: Inspired by another post

Expedit drinks bar: Inspired by another post

This bar would not have been possible without the original post. Items from Ikea 1 – EXPEDIT Shelving unit, high gloss white 2 X 2 1 – EXPEDIT Shelving unit, high gloss white 2 X 4 2 – Pack of CAPITA Leg, stainless steel 1 – Capita bracket From Amazon: LED Kit LED Splitter LED Extension cable…

Ikea Bar Cart Hack

Ikea Bar Cart Hack

This Ikea Hack transformed an Ikea kitchen cart and glass rack into an elegant bar cart. Bar Carts are beautiful but can be extremely expensive and often do not have built in storage for wine glasses. So when my whiskey cocktail obsessed partners insisted on getting a bar cart for…

Light Bar Design

Light Bar Design

Materials: Lack Shelf, Ullrik black, Dioder, Plexiglas plate, drill, bracket, screws, anti slip Description: 1. Mount Lack Shelf (height : 70cm) & Ullrik table leg 2. Place two brackets on the wall by drilling (height : 70cm) 3. Place four anti slip patches on Ullrick table leg and on the…

Expedit Bar Hack

Expedit Bar Hack

Materials: Expedit Description: We bought the black brown expedit unit and attached runners to hang the champagne glasses from (also ikea from the kitchen section) and the ikea basic wine racks and sawed the legs off so they fit into the space – for a colour match we bought a…

EXPEDIT Bar Sink

EXPEDIT Bar Sink

Materials: Expedit Description: This hack was made out of a 5×5 Expedit unit. We are using 2 of them in a corner as bar shelves to hold the bottles. We found ourselves always looking for a spot to dump the finished drinks and decided that we needed a bar sink…

EXPEDIT drop leaf table: Texas style

EXPEDIT drop leaf table: Texas style

Materials: EXPEDIT, LACK, contact paper, sliding rails, hinges Started off with this Got some contact paper from Home Depot for around $8.00. PANYL has better colors but I went the more affordable route. After an hour or two of cutting and smoothing out the bubbles… Had to add some doors…

diy patio cooler ikea hack

DIY patio cooler hack that will elevate your outdoor dining

Summer months are great for picnics and outdoor parties in the backyard. Keep the cold drinks cold in a DIY patio cooler ice chest. We have a wooden or metal version … your pick. The patio cooler would be awesome parked next to an outdoor sink and the barbecue grill…

Besta Wine Rack and Liquor Cabinet

Besta Wine Rack and Liquor Cabinet

Materials: Besta Frame 75 5/8″ (401.021.29), Besta glass door, Inreda mirrored glass shelf insert (501.965.42), 4 extra Inreda shelves (901.034.71), 1.25″ lumber, cut into 12″€ rods (a total of 30-42′ depending on the number of shelves desired), Dark brown wood stain, Lacquer, Gorilla glue Description: Having a large wine and spirits collection…

Billy gets tipsy

Billy gets tipsy

Materials: BILLY BOOKSHELF Description: We are all about recycle, reuse, and re-purpose. Primarily because of our very little home renovation budget. We had an old Ikea book cabinet/TV stand from our first home. I had hung some curtains in it just to hide the mountains of mismatched textbooks. Then when…

Breakfast bar/home office desk

Breakfast bar/home office desk

Materials: AKURUM kitchen wall cabinet + LINNMON table top + cover panel Description: We needed a dining table and home office desk in a very small area. Also needed storage space for office that wouldn’t look cluttered. Bought AKURUM kitchen WALL CABINET in the wood finish that matched existing furniture.…

Bar Cabinet from wall cabinets

Bar Cabinet from wall cabinets

Materials: Akurum wall cabinet frame, 30″w x 39″h, Perfekt wine shelf, 9″w x 39″h, (2) Lidi glass doors, (2) glass shelves (comes in a pack of 2 already), Cabinet door hardware, Cabinet door dampers, (3) Boholmen cutting boards, Dioder LED 4-piece strips, Some extra hardware from the spare parts As-Is…

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

Materials: EXPEDIT 4×4 (2) Description: We decided to remodel our back bar display and wanted shelving that would display our red wine selection and also fit into the space we currently had available. To achieve this i purchased 2 4×4 Expedit shelving units. In order to achieve the correct size…

LACK/MONGSTAD/BESTÅ bar

LACK/MONGSTAD/BESTÅ bar

Materials: IKEA BESTÅ shelf unit (201.021.54) IKEA BESTÅ shelf unit (501.021.57) IKEA BESTÅ black glass top panel (901.965.35) IKEA BESTÅ VARA glass door (701.785.80) x2 IKEA INREDA drawer without front (901.812.23) IKEA BESTŅ VARA drawer front (501.473.73) IKEA INREDA bottle rack (901.965.21) x2 IKEA INREDA mirrored glass shelf insert (501.965.42)…

Hacky New Year EXPEDIT Bar!!!

Hacky New Year EXPEDIT Bar!!!

Materials: IKEA EXPEDIT 2×2, 1×5 and desk extension Ikea Expedit Desk add-on Undercabinet Stemware Rack Wine Bottle Racks (2) Aluminum Channel Plastic speaker port Anthropology brass pulls (5) Rigid Casters (4) Description: We hacked together a mini-bar for our office holiday party and beyond. Here’s how we did it. Cheers!!…

How to make a concealed BILLY bookshelf bar

How to make a concealed BILLY bookshelf bar

Please join BILLY and me for a drink at my newly opened bookshelf bar. I love to invite friends over for game night. While playing, we love to eat and drink well together. That is why I decided to turn my BILLY bookcase into a BILLY bar cabinet. I took…

Breakfast Bar with lot of storage space

Breakfast Bar with lot of storage space

Materials: VIKA AMON, EXPEDIT, CAPITA Description: Step 1: add wheels to the Expedit unit Step 2: screw Capitas on Expedit Step 3: screw Vika Amon with Capitas Budget: bar + stools (from amazon) $250 Make sure to choose wheels with brakes for obvious reason. ~ Pierre, San Francisco

EKBY MOSSBY wine rack

EKBY MOSSBY wine rack

Materials: EKBY MOSSBY, EKBY BJARNUM, thunder group 10″ chrome wire glass rack Description: I needed a wine rack, but since I live in an apartment I had no room for a standing bar. All the hacks were of standalone bars or under cabinets and my cabinets were too low to…

Wine+Liquor Bar

Wine+Liquor Bar

Materials: Ikea Expedit Wall Shelf, Inreda, Capita, Dioder Description: 1. Follow step 1 of the Expedit instructions and attach the top of the shelf to one side. 2. Add 2 Inreda racks to the top (underside) of the Expedit shelf. 3. Add the bottom and other side to the Expedit.…

Expedit/Cubes Bar table

Expedit/Cubes Bar table

Materials: Expedit Shelving Unit, Capita Brackets, 3 Way basics Cubes (non-Ikea), Vika Glasholm table top Description: This table was inspired by other Expedit Bar table hacks posted on this website. I first secured the capita brackets to the glass top with epoxy and then to the Expedit shelving unit. I…

Closet isn’t LACKing anything as a Bar

Closet isn’t LACKing anything as a Bar

Materials: 4×4 Expedit, Lack shelves, Hutten, Counter lamps, wine glass holders Description: Not the first Expedit bar hack, but hopefully you all will still appreciate our interpretation…. Our old place had a multipurpose room we converted into a dining room. The closet wasn’t really being utilized, and looked strange with…

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