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.
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IKEA Bar Cart Hacks
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
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…
Besta Wine Rack and Liquor Cabinet
Materials: Besta Frame 75 5/8″ (401.021.29), Besta glass door, Inreda mirrored…
Bar Cabinet from wall cabinets
Materials: Akurum wall cabinet frame, 30″w x 39″h, Perfekt wine…
How to make a concealed BILLY bookshelf bar
Please join BILLY and me for a drink at my…
DIY Bar Tables
Awesome EXPEDIT Drinks Bar
Materials: EXPEDIT, CAPITA, DIODER Description: Step 1: Two Expedit units, one 2×2 and one 2×4 in an L-shaped formation. Step…
Ikea L-Shaped Dry Bar
Materials: BESTA shelf unit and legs Description: Materials: (4) 801.021.51 (Besta Shelf) (8) 801.341.90 (Legs) At your local home improvement…
DIY Wine Racks and Hacks
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…
EXPEDIT Half Shelf from Wine Rack
Photo: IKEA Materials: EXPEDIT Bookcase, HUTTEN 9-bottle wine rack Description:…
The Besta-est Wine Rack
Materials: Besta Shelf Unit 60x40x192 plus extra Besta Shelves Description:…
Grundtal Wine Rack
Materials: Grundtal double towel bar Description: Stainless steel wine rack…
All our IKEA Bar Hacks
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
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
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)…
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
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
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
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…
Kitchen cabinets as a bar
Materials: FAKTUM, PRÄGEL, HÄRLIG, PERFEKT APPLÅD Description: 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, and we found four already used 30 cm cabinets for a fourth of the regular price at the store,…
Awesome EXPEDIT Drinks Bar
Materials: EXPEDIT, CAPITA, DIODER Description: Step 1: Two Expedit units, one 2×2 and one 2×4 in an L-shaped formation. Step 2: In the 2×2 Unit put expedit drawers facing into the bartender area and two Expedit cabinets opening outwards to give the side of the bar a solid look. Step…
Ikea L-Shaped Dry Bar
Materials: BESTA shelf unit and legs Description: Materials: (4) 801.021.51 (Besta Shelf) (8) 801.341.90 (Legs) At your local home improvement store: 2x4s L and Straight Brackets Screws Plywood Concrete backer board 12″ Granite tiles Grout and mortar Counter edge molding Silicone 1. Stack the shelves and screw them together. When…
