Awesome Home Bars that are Stylish and Functional

Guest blog by: Danielle Hegedus from Modernize.com

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Sure, it’s fun to hit up your favorite bar, especially with the rise of so many talented mixologists making speciality cocktails that knock your socks off. Sometimes you like to keep it simple though—a glass of wine, home-brewed beer, a great old-fashioned. Enjoy a low-key, affordable evening that doesn’t involve hanging out on the couch in your pajamas. Modernize is here to help you create your very own home bar that makes your homemade cocktail feel like a special treat and encourages friends to gather at your home. You’ll save money and won’t have to worry about a ride home, and you get to be the DJ!

 

Add Some Nostalgia to Your Next Party

Have you noticed that 70’s motif is starting to look like the future in “The Jetsons?” Either way, this is the ultimate party pad. A kitchen island provides a great surface for making drinks and putting out platters of food. A nearby oven keeps snacks warm, and a sink and dishwasher will keep everyone’s glasses fresh. A range of seating means that your guests will be able to spread out to enjoy games, great conversation, and maybe even some dancing. This just could be your own personal speakeasy.

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Make Drinking Into an Art!

If you are limited on space, but looking for high style and multi-functionality, think about this built-in bar that is also a stunning wall sculpture. Beautiful woodwork conceals the bar until you need it. This stealth bar may just make you feel like James Bond.

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Host the Best Ladies’ Night in Town

This bar pulls off a subtle feminine feel that won’t leave you stuck with pink drinks all night. The built-in lighting in the bar combined with candles and lamps creates a warm, sexy feel, even during the day. The gold finishes on the window, stools, lamps, and counters pull this corner unit together, making it feel like its own room. Simple shelves in the back provide easy access to inventory and a place to display cherished finds.

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You Don’t Need a Wine Cellar to Be a Wine Enthusiast

This converted pantry provides ample room for storing your wine collection and great visibility to make finding the perfect bottle to complement your meal or celebrate a special occasion simple. A small programmable wine cooler keeps white wine and champagne ready for guests. Horizontal shelves make the most of the room’s’ storage potential and allow you to display beautiful glassware.

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Revamp Your Grandparent’s Bar Cart

If you are short on room for a bar, utilize a bar cart. Upgrade the old fashioned silver cart that looks like it could just as easily carry cafeteria trays by thinking outside of the box—or in this case, inside the box! Search antique stores and flea markets to repurpose a great chest of drawers or even a television (pictured) to create a functional bar that will have your guests enamored.

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Arcadian Home’s White Summer Rooms

Hello, everyone! I’m so happy to be here with you at Beckwith Interiors with a guest post from Arcadian Home blog, a fabulous place to find interior design inspiration including great decorating ideas for everything from beautiful Folding Screens to colorful wall art and lots more.




Today’s post is all about white rooms for summer. Of course spaces done in all white are suitable for every season, but there are lots of ways to dress them up to get ready for summer. Please enjoy!



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~ Mari

Summer is the time to strip away all the extras, even in white rooms. This beautiful white bedroom shows how pretty an iron canopy bed looks with all the drapings gone—just crisp, clean and summery.

Tailored slipcovers for the dining chairs bring a summery feel to this seaside dining room. The bright white fabric is a beautiful contrast to the dark wood of the table and the floor.

Adding white slipcovers to the sofas and wingback chair bring a summertime look to this stylish living room. White toss pillows and one in taupe linen are just right for this design, as are fresh-cut white flowers.

A pale gray bedroom reads white for summer with the addition of luxurious linens in layers of white and pristine Contemporary Lamps. 

This traditional white bath goes for a summery feel with tall stems in lovely pink. Staying with white for linens and toss pillows on the built-in bench keeps the space light and airy.

It may be a winter wonderland outside this pretty breakfast room, but the space has an appealing summery feel that’s just right for our tour of white rooms for summer today. The delicate lace-trimmed table cloth is my favorite element here.

 

Adding color with oversized art brings a vibrant summery look to this white on white kitchen. Not just one Glass Pendant Light but four in pure white glass are hung above the butcher’s block island.

White cushion covers bring new life to this patio’s corner sitting area. By going white with the core elements of the space, it’s easy to change out decorative pillows and flowers for an entirely different look—pink for summer and perhaps terra cotta for fall.

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What do you think of these summertime rooms? Leave us your thoughts below and be sure to come by our blog for more Home Decor and interior inspirations!