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

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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

Mini bar: FORHOJA kitchen cart modified for tall bottles

This one is going to be about hacking the FORHOJA…

Ikea Bar Cart Hack

Ikea Bar Cart Hack

This Ikea Hack transformed an Ikea kitchen cart and glass…

IKEA Bar Cabinet Hacks

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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…

bar cabinet ikea tarva hack

Hack a trendy DIY Drinks Bar cabinet in bold colors

I turned the IKEA TARVA 3-drawer chest into a DIY…

BESTA wine rack hack!

BESTA wine rack hack!

We wanted some wine storage under our kitchen island and…

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…

Make a Home Bar with IKEA Furniture

Expedit home bar: Add light and texture!

Expedit home bar: Add light and texture!

Materials: Expedit Capita legs from Ikea $60 for 6 Linmon…

Guinness Theme Bar

Guinness Theme Bar

Items from Ikea: Kallax  2×4 : 202.758.85 Kallax 2×2 : 602.758.12…

LACK/MONGSTAD/BESTÅ bar

LACK/MONGSTAD/BESTÅ bar

Materials: IKEA BESTÅ shelf unit (201.021.54) IKEA BESTÅ shelf unit…

Hacky New Year EXPEDIT Bar!!!

Hacky New Year EXPEDIT Bar!!!

Materials: IKEA EXPEDIT 2×2, 1×5 and desk extension Ikea Expedit…

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…

Kitchen cabinets as a bar

Kitchen cabinets as a bar

Materials: FAKTUM, PRÄGEL, HÄRLIG, PERFEKT APPLÅD Description: We built out…

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DIY Bar Tables

Cheers! It’s an Illuminated Bar

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…

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…

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…

DIY Wine Racks and Hacks

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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

Discreet wine rack from Ribba

I have very little space in my kitchen but really…

Hutten wall-mounted Side-on Wine Racking

Hutten wall-mounted Side-on Wine Racking

Materials: HUTTEN 9-bottle wine rack 1) Unpack Hutten wine rack,…

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

EXPEDIT Back Bar WIne Display

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

All our IKEA Bar 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 a bargain when it’s all said and done. All-in-all it…

IKEA NORDEN: Bar Cart Envy

IKEA NORDEN: Bar Cart Envy

Materials: Norden sideboard I built the piece leaving the top off and did not assemble one of the drawers.  The one assembled drawer I centered in the top.  Modified the remaining pieces from the other drawer to construct the empty slots.  I cut the top in 3 pieces keeping the…

Fyndig side table mini bar

Fyndig side table mini bar

Materials: Ikea Fyndig Wall Cabinet One day when browsing the web I came across some images for side tables that were also mini bars. It’s a great idea, but the prices were astronomical. A quick brainstorm and googling for regular cupboards brought me to the Ikea Fyndig wall cabinet. A…

How to turn IKEA Bookcase into a space-saving Wine Rack

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 with panels, I landed on making a slim wine rack. Given the tiny kitchen that I have, it was the…

bar cabinet ikea tarva hack

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

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

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

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!

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…

Balcony Bar

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) –…

Expedit home bar: Add light and texture!

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

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

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…

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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…

Cheers! It’s an Illuminated Bar

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

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…

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…

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