IKEA Bar Cabinet and Bar Cart Hacks
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 RAST Dresser Hack: The complete wine cart
Are you ready to see how to change the life of an IKEA RAST Dresser Hack? I am not talking just painting the drawers and changing the hardware – but a true IKEA RAST dresser hack that converts into this…
Mini bar: FORHOJA kitchen cart modified for tall bottles
This one is going to be about hacking the FORHOJA (fhqwhgads). At first glance it isn’t too much of a looker, and I really wanted to put my liqour in…
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…
IKEA Bar Cabinet Hacks
IKEA IVAR pantry with DIY wooden wine glass rack
Take 3! IVAR is the hack you can keep on hacking. Jo previously played around with the IVAR shelves like this, turning it into a pantry and drinks shelving: Then, she added more doors and a wooden wine glass rack. (Tap…
Hack a trendy DIY Drinks Bar cabinet in bold colors
I turned the IKEA TARVA 3-drawer chest into a DIY bar cabinet. It is probably easier to use an IVAR cabinet to hack into a bar cabinet. But I was…
BESTA wine rack hack!
We wanted some wine storage under our kitchen island and discovered the BESTÅ units are the perfect depth — but don’t offer a good bottle storage solution. There are a…
EFFEKTIV cocktails
Materials: EFFEKTIV cabinets (no longer available but the same can be done with many currently available IKEA cabinets) First, I designed a layout of cabinets that would be able to…
Make a Home Bar with IKEA Furniture
Expedit home bar: Add light and texture!
Materials: Expedit Capita legs from Ikea $60 for 6 Linmon table top from Ikea $45 Plywood backing from Lowe’s about $25 Primer & black paint for the backing, about $25…
Guinness Theme Bar
Items from Ikea: Kallax 2×4 : 202.758.85 Kallax 2×2 : 602.758.12 Expedit drawer Besta : 201.021.54 Besta : 501.021.43 Besta : 502.216.50 INREDA : 501.965.42 And then some Capita legs Items from Ebay: Car…
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…
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…
Closet isn’t LACKing anything as a Bar
Materials: 4×4 Expedit, Lack shelves, Hutten, Counter lamps, wine glass holdersDescription: Not the first Expedit bar hack, but hopefully you all will still appreciate our interpretation…. Our old place had…
Kitchen cabinets as a bar
Materials: FAKTUM, PRÄGEL, HÄRLIG, PERFEKT APPLÅDDescription: We built out own bar with FAKTUM kitchen wall cabinets, since they aren’t as deep as regular cupboards. This bar is 120 cm wide,…
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How to make
Zaga is a beginner home brewer. Besides her Carboy she needed a beer bottle drying rack to properly sanitize and dry the bottles. Most options she looked into were a bit expensive and also didn’t…
We recently moved into an apartment with a great IKEA kitchen using the METOD cabinets … the only thing missing was a wine rack. We solved that pronto, with a super-fast project that used up…
Want the best way to store your wine bottles on the IKEA KALLAX unit? Look no further than the IKEA KALLAX wine rack insert hack! With space for 9-12 bottles, this clever insert turns your…
DIY Bar Tables
BESTA floating glass bar table
Materials: BESTA legs, BESTA unit, Capital brackets I wanted to find a modern and original yet practical solution for a…
LINNMON Bar with iPad Mini inset
Materials: DIODER, LINNMON, OLOV, STIG My boyfriend asked kindly if we could have a bar with stools in our living…
Cheers! It’s an Illuminated Bar
We wanted a cool bar for a corner of our “library room” (you remember the Gigantic Expedit-Bookcase?). As all prefab…
DIY Wine Racks and Hacks
How to DIY Wine Rack Inserts for the KALLAX
Want the best way to store your wine bottles on the IKEA KALLAX unit? Look no further than the IKEA KALLAX wine rack insert hack! With space for 9-12 bottles, this clever insert turns your KALLAX shelving unit into a…
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…
How to turn IKEA Bookcase into a space-saving Wine Rack
I had an opening of about 6″ in width between my IKEA pantry cabinet and my wall. After brainstorming on what to do with the gap, including closing it up…
Hutten wall-mounted Side-on Wine Racking
Materials: HUTTEN 9-bottle wine rack 1) Unpack Hutten wine rack, and (using a chop-saw) cut off all three shelves at the point just beyond the first cross-bar on each side.…
All our IKEA Bar Hacks
Hack a trendy DIY Drinks Bar cabinet in bold colors
I turned the IKEA TARVA 3-drawer chest into a DIY bar cabinet. It is probably easier to use an IVAR cabinet to hack into a bar cabinet. But I was gifted the TARVA dresser and I really wanted a bar cabinet. So with some IKEA hacking, elbow grease, and a…
DIY Home Bar built from BILLY bookcases
A gorgeous DIY home bar from tall and short BILLY bookcases. It had been an aim of mine for some years now to build myself a bar at home for entertaining friends regularly. Finally I decided to stop procrastinating and just get down to it. This is how my DIY…
Mini bar: FORHOJA kitchen cart modified for tall bottles
This one is going to be about hacking the FORHOJA (fhqwhgads). At first glance it isn’t too much of a looker, and I really wanted to put my liqour in it, so I took a look at a possibility (John Booze Maleficent Karting), and figured why not? Here is what…
Kitchen island turned custom bar
Materials: Groland Kitchen Island, Hutton Wine rack I set out to make a custom bar for my apartment, and the Groland Kitchen Island proved the perfect starting point! I left off the towel bars when assembling and custom built a small shelf unit to subdivide the space beneath the counter…
BESTA wine rack hack!
We wanted some wine storage under our kitchen island and discovered the BESTÅ units are the perfect depth — but don’t offer a good bottle storage solution. There are a couple great wine rack hacks here, but none had a look that I liked. Instead, I took some OBSERVATÖR bottle…
EFFEKTIV cocktails
Materials: EFFEKTIV cabinets (no longer available but the same can be done with many currently available IKEA cabinets) First, I designed a layout of cabinets that would be able to serve as a bar (incorporating a half fridge), electronics cabinet, and living room toy box for our little guy’s favorite…
Balcony Bar
The patio at my apartment does not have a lot of space so to maximize its usage I wanted to install a bar that was not attached to any external structures. Ikea Parts: PRÄGEL Countertop (1) – $80 Can GERTON Leg (2) – $25 Can EKBY STÖDIS Bracket (4) -…
Kitchen Wall Cabinet to Modern Mini Bar
Materials 2 each Kitchen Wall Cabinet and Doors and glass shelves, 4 Stainless Capita Legs, 2 Blankett handles After we moved to London I had two left over kitchen wall cabinets that had once hung above my step-sons bed for extra storage in his bedroom that were no longer needed.…
Expedit home bar: Add light and texture!
Materials: Expedit Capita legs from Ikea $60 for 6 Linmon table top from Ikea $45 Plywood backing from Lowe’s about $25 Primer & black paint for the backing, about $25 Special bolts for the Capita legs $7 Dioder lights from Ikea $80 for 8 lights Wine rack from Amazon, $35…
IKEA Expedit DJ Booth for LoungeBar
Materials: Capita Bracket and a Lack wall shelf, Capita Leg, Expedit 79×79 shelving unit (now it’s called Kallax) I got this job, to make a DJ booth for a coffee and wine bar. It had to be a bit of a loungy look, so I decided to do something with…
Guinness Theme Bar
Items from Ikea: Kallax 2×4 : 202.758.85 Kallax 2×2 : 602.758.12 Expedit drawer Besta : 201.021.54 Besta : 501.021.43 Besta : 502.216.50 INREDA : 501.965.42 And then some Capita legs Items from Ebay: Car vinyl gloss black Custom made Guinness logo Items from Amazon : LED set up Homedepot : Miscellaneous items…
Narrow STÄLL bar
Materials: STÄLL shoe cabinets (both the taller deeper 3-comparment one and the shorter and shallower 4-compartment one) plus EKBY JÄRPEN wall shelves and EKBY VALTER brackets I wanted to put in a nice home bar in my living room, but have very little space, depth-wise. When I was looking through…
How to hack a bar cabinet from IKEA HEMNES (with hidden door slides)
The IKEA HEMNES wardrobe was perfect for our conversion into a bar cabinet. While the IKEA Hemnes wardrobe is primarily designed as a clothing storage solution, we felt it could potentially be repurposed as a drinks cabinet with some modifications. Furthermore, we didn’t need it anymore. Off the bat, it…
BESTA floating glass bar table
Materials: BESTA legs, BESTA unit, Capital brackets I wanted to find a modern and original yet practical solution for a kitchen table for my studio flat. Wherever I looked, I found none that appealed to me. So I decided to hack one myself. I used one BESTÅ unit (001.340.52), two…
LINNMON Bar with iPad Mini inset
Materials: DIODER, LINNMON, OLOV, STIG My boyfriend asked kindly if we could have a bar with stools in our living room. Sure, okay; but we had to work around a few issues. 1) It had to fit with another MDF plate which was already mounted. 2) Measurements, we were looking…
Cheers! It’s an Illuminated Bar
We wanted a cool bar for a corner of our “library room” (you remember the Gigantic Expedit-Bookcase?). As all prefab bar-furnitures did not fit our needs and/or were too expensive, we decided to build one of our own. Step 1: Find a free corner. Step 2: Buy wall cabinets (because…
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
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
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
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…
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