For Christmas, we gifted ourselves a Keurig. I am not a coffee drinker and Steve lives on the stuff, so I assumed we were pretty much getting it for him…but then I discovered the world of Keurig cider, cocoa, and tea! So now I love our Keurig too. What I did not love about ol’ K is the amount of counter space it hogs. This was not jiving with me…after trying the coffee machine near every conceivable outlet in our entire kitchen, I came up with a plan.
We moved our media stand into the “dinnette” nook to use as a coffee bar table. I grabbed some things we had around the house and FINALLY hung up our word art that’s only been sitting around for 6 months or so. The only thing I bought for this was the his and her mug holders. I found them at Hobby Lobby and got both of them for $7.00 total thanks to an awesome 50% off sale.
I wanted to have one side as a coffee bar and one side as a wine bar…however, the universe is thwarting my efforts right now, so Lucy’s food has been promoted to the special kids table as a place holder.
I lucked out and happened to have 3 baskets in the closet that fit perfectly. The dishes in the cabinet is my mismatched china collection…remind me to blog about it someday. I needed somewhere to put tea, and I had a blue glass wide mouth jar down in the basement that did the trick nicely.
I found my little mirrored tray for $4.00 at Goodwill. My jars were from Target along time ago, I just personalized them with chalkboard vinyl and my Silhouette.
I’m loving this small piece of completed-ness in our house of chaos. It feels SO GOOD to finally have something on the walls. Anyone else doing some reorganizing? Did you put together a coffee bar? Move your entertainment center somewhere else when it no longer worked with your house?? Do tell!
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So cute but you must get the wine bar part up and running!
Mainly because you don’t drink coffee…
and because wine is delicious! Let me know if you spot any great wine rack/wine glass combos…the hunt is on.
Love, love, love and MORE love!!! Nice work
And now when you come visit me, I can offer you a beverage. Suhweet!
Where photos supposed to go out with the email? I did find the article with your photos. Coffee bars are generally a commercial enterprise and I would never think of duplicating any of that until seeing your article.
I find it very interesting how you go about sourcing your items without having to remortgage the house.
Coffee is brewed only before noon in our house, then tea becomes the item. Lots of tea and in many different brands and flavours. Perhaps a tea bar is in order here.
Job well done Steve and Elisabeth.