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.
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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…
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…
Materials 2 each Kitchen Wall Cabinet and Doors and glass…
Materials: STÄLL shoe cabinets (both the taller deeper 3-comparment one…
The IKEA HEMNES wardrobe was perfect for our conversion into…
This bar would not have been possible without the original post. Items from Ikea 1 – EXPEDIT Shelving unit, high gloss white…
Materials: Lack Shelf, Ullrik black, Dioder, Plexiglas plate, drill, bracket, screws, anti slip Description: 1. Mount Lack Shelf (height :…
Materials: Expedit Description: We bought the black brown expedit unit and attached runners to hang the champagne glasses from (also…
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…
Materials: HUTTEN wine rack I had some smaller bottles that…
Materials: EXPEDIT 4×4 (2) Description: We decided to remodel our…
Materials: Expedit 2X1, 4″ PvC Pipe, Under Cabinet Drinkware Holder…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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 BESTÅ VARA drawer front (501.473.73) IKEA INREDA bottle rack (901.965.21) x2 IKEA INREDA mirrored glass shelf insert (501.965.42)…
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!!…
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…
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
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…
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.…
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…
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…