How to make a wall-mounted mini bar with your own hands. Home minibar - photo of cool and roomy racks. What are the secrets to make cocktails always turn out well

Buying a mini bar in a furniture store or a specialized shopping center is not a problem. Modern manufacturers offer a wide range of options for these interior items. But after all, it’s quite possible to make them yourself from improvised materials, and then you get a really exclusive thing that you can proudly show to relatives, friends, and acquaintances. As improvised materials for a fashionable piece of furniture are quite suitable bookshelves, cabinets, tables, wine boxes and a lot of things that for one reason or another have fallen into disuse. At one time it was a pity to throw them away, and now they will serve the zealous owners.

For convenient storage of various drinks, a refrigerator can be built into the nightstand.

In the countryside, you can still find a wheel from a cart today. For most villagers, it is of no value, but for a jack-of-all-trades, this is an exclusive find. With the help of a wheel, it is quite easy to make a home minibar in rustic style. Such an interior item is made in two versions: from a whole wheel or its halves. To solve any of the types of bar you will need:

• wheel or its half;
• boards or furniture board;
• screws or screws;
• thick wire;
• plugs or plugs for screws;
• furniture varnish;
• screwdriver;
• saw or hacksaw;
• medium grit sandpaper.

The most ordinary table of arbitrary sizes is made from boards or a furniture board, a wheel is installed inside it - that's all the main operations for assembling a mini bar. Screws or self-tapping screws are used to fasten wooden elements. Some masters prefer to use liquid nails. A saw or a hacksaw is selected depending on the thickness of the wood. Rings made of wire are attached inside the wheel. It is better to disguise the screws with which the thing was connected - then the piece of furniture will look much more attractive. Hangers for glasses are made of wire, but, if necessary, they can be purchased at the hardware store.

A mini bar made using a wheel can be made deaf on one side. Only then it is necessary to block one of its sides along the plane of the wheel furniture board. Craftsmen in this case are advised to use two wheels located parallel to each other. If you do things this way, bottle holders may not be required. Two wheels next to each other will quite cope with the role of holders. Arrange in a similar way home bar using half a wheel. It will be smaller in size, but it can be installed on a nightstand, kitchen countertop or imitation fireplace - and a new stylish thing is ready. To emphasize the beautiful natural pattern of wooden products, they are opened with varnish, not forgetting to sand the previously sawn elements. For finishing work use stain, paint on wood, whose application becomes the finishing touch.

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Mini bar from pvc pipes will fit very well into the interior in the style of hi-tech, loft, minimalism.

What kind of products craftsmen manage to make from PVC pipes! A do-it-yourself bar is easy to make from polymers. Such a thing is also good because it will fit into the interior in the style of hi-tech, loft, minimalism, it will come in handy exactly where classic wooden interior items will look like alien elements. A PVC mini bar can be made very quickly and does not require many tools. Its design usually does not include cup holders. And for the upcoming work you will need the following tools and materials:

• hollow PVC pipes;
• spray paint;
• acetone;
• universal spray primer;
• self-adhesive double-sided tape;
• hacksaw;
• tassel;
• sandpaper medium and fine grit.

If the mini bar is made with wheels, then it can be moved anywhere if necessary.

First of all, you need to find a place where such an unusual bar will be installed. If there is an empty niche in the house or apartment, great! When there is no niche, an empty shelf or bedside table is taken to make a mini bar.

The first measurement is the depth of the mini bar. If a thing is planned to be installed in a niche, we focus on it in calculations. Be sure to take into account the average height of the bottles that are supposed to be stored in it. With a hacksaw, cut the pipes into the required lengths. But it is easier to do otherwise, more practical, saving your own time. When buying PVC pipes in shopping centers and stores, you can ask the seller to cut the pipes into equal lengths. Such a service, as a rule, is carried out free of charge, just do not forget to first determine the total size of the pipes, the number and length of the segments. The edges of the pipes must be treated with medium and fine grit sanding paper until they become smooth. If this operation is neglected, it is likely that the mini bar will turn into a permanent source of injury.

What is acetone for? They use a brush to treat the surface of the pipes to remove oils from them, because they will prevent the paint from being applied evenly. There is one common mistake for novice craftsmen - to apply paint immediately over PVC pipes. It is not right. Before painting, the pipes must be coated with a primer. Moreover, there are pipe options when paint - primer - paint - primer alternate in layers. This option is the most optimal, because then a durable and aesthetic coating for PVC pipes is created. Once the paint and primer are dry, you can proceed with the installation of pipes, which will require self-adhesive tape.

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Bedside table mini bar

Making a wooden bedside table mini bar is also not difficult if you take for it:

A wagon wheel minibar is perfect for rustic-style interiors. It is made from a whole wheel and fixed with a furniture shield.

• nightstand;
• wooden boards:
• paint;
• tool for sawing boards;
• ruler;
• simple pencil.

The door at the nightstand does not have to be removed. If necessary, the mini bar can be decorated with a mirror from the inside after the shelves are made, it is glued with any glue suitable for wooden surfaces.

The algorithm of actions is the following. Mark the planks first. They are cut in the middle and opened with paint, which must be fixed with varnish. The boards are inserted into each other crosswise. If necessary, varnish the outer and inner part bedside tables.

Once I was visiting my old friend. In the living room, a small surprise awaited me in the form of a mini bar. I was more surprised not by its presence, but by the absence of alcohol in it. I asked a friend if he drinks alcohol, because maybe the bar was just conceived as part of the interior, and in everyday life it turned out that he had no direct use.

In response, I heard that an empty bar is a sign of a house in which the owners and guests value strong drinks, and only in a house where the owners are cold to alcohol can it be full. Later it turned out that during the renovation he made this mini-bar with his own hands.

In fact, such a detail for modern home is a kind of analogue of a wine cellar, because it can take up much less space.

Any owner who appreciates high-quality strong drinks needs a similar interior detail. Most often, this happens due to the fact that in all nearby establishments alcohol is not distinguished by either a pleasant taste or high quality.

Why is it needed

Many have already drawn analogies with public institutions or paintings seen in films. It's actually not very practical. Rather, it is very impractical to install a huge bar, put beautiful bar stools on it, and then live with all this.

A mini-bar at home is most often a simple and compact piece of furniture that stores alcohol. It often turns out that you may not notice it right away when you are visiting a friend, as was the case with me.

Very popular solutions with the placement of such a bar inside some kind of bedside table or barrel, which fits perfectly into different interiors. Very often you can find, especially in offices, a mini-bar located inside a decorative globe. In this regard, films show what can be found in real life.

If we talk about ready-made options, then the most simple solution is a banal table with wheels, which can have several shelves. Such models grow even up to one and a half meters, and this is already a good such a rack for drinking.

Naturally, their design is a little more complicated than it seems at first glance, because they are equipped with mounts for bottles and containers into which you want to pour alcohol.

Why a minibar

All original ideas and drawings for mini-bars agree on one thing - in compactness and convenience. Many of the options that are on the market, as well as those that you can assemble yourself, are very mobile, and can be moved at any time to a suitable place.

Buying such a mini-bar will be more expensive, but in case self assembly even spending on necessary materials and details, it turns out that the price tag is not as high as it might seem.

Not the least for many owners will be the fact that, first of all, such a thing can become a very beautiful interior detail, if not its highlight.

It should also be understood that such a solution can free you up a lot of space in the cabinets in the kitchen that take up bottles. This is because the minibar has special shelves for bottles, which help to make more efficient use of space.

Nobody canceled a simple demonstration of the capabilities and image of the owner of such an installation. Agree that in an ordinary house it is very difficult to find a mini-bar.

Naturally, there are times when the owner not only does not want to buy, but also does not want to assemble a mini-bar for the house with his own hands. It's more about people like me. From alcohol in my house you can find only wine and champagne, well, or confectionery cognac, which is necessary for my wife for some dishes. This I mean that if there is not enough alcohol in your house, then when buying, or assembling yourself, a mini-bar, understand that it does not look very impressive when empty.

Peculiarities

Most often, everything depends on the volume that you will need, and on the external design of the minibar. For many, just the second point is more important, because it would be stupid to put in a room that is made in the same general style, a bar that doesn’t fit at all.

As it turns out, this is not uncommon in modern houses, but we are not talking about that now. If you are now at the stage of determining how to make a minibar with your own hands, then pay attention to the designs that can be built into the wall.

It is very thoughtful and practical option, because in this case, you can use the space above the bar to additionally replace your things, or an acoustic system, for example.

This design is much easier to make stronger, thereby protecting the filling of the bar. I'm sure you don't want your minibar to break when you put a stack of books on top, resulting in wasted alcohol and glass shards on the floor and inside the bar.

In fact, you should not think that the instructions for making a mini-bar with your own hands are an indispensable component of the process. In fact, you can even use a kitchen cabinet, which you can re-equip, you can get a very decent home bar in a compact size. In this matter, everything depends more and more on your desires, capabilities and needs.

DIY minibar photo

Home mini bar, like wine cellar at home, this is often not a whim, but a necessity for hospitable hosts who often have guests. It should also be equipped by true connoisseurs of high-quality alcohol, because the nearest bar does not always have really worthwhile specimens. The compactness and at the same time spaciousness of the mini-bar is its main distinguishing feature.

Why do you need a mini-bar in the house?

At the word bar, many will imagine a huge rack with high chairs and all over the wall with all kinds of alcoholic drinks. Naturally, it makes no sense to equip such a home, besides, there is not enough space. A home mini-bar for drinks is a compact furniture for storing alcohol, and it is often stylized as familiar or not-so-familiar items in the house. It could be a globe, a barrel. Bars-transformers can turn into a mini-rack with a slight movement of the hand.

The models presented in stores are often comfortable low tables on wheels or shelves up to 1.5 m in height. They have special shelves for and holders for glasses.

Reasons why you should get a mini-bar:

1. It is compact, most of them can be easily moved. This allows you to put it even in, without sacrificing useful space.
2. The cost is low, even if you buy materials and assemble a suitable bar for yourself.
3. It decorates any home. Brings a touch of originality to the design.
4. Such an alcohol storage system frees up a lot of space in and out, as it is designed specifically for storing bottles, and has suitable shelves for this.
5. The presence in the design of such an attribute will give the interior functionality and certainly decorate it.
6. It symbolizes the richness of style and emphasizes the image of the owners, because ordinary vodka is not put in such bars, often it is something more refined and more expensive.

Our version of the mini bar is quite simple to manufacture, compact and roomy. It holds a lot of alcoholic drinks, and there is also a place for glasses and even glasses with shot glasses. To do DIY mini bar you will need the following materials:

• MDF;
• screws;
• glue;
• dye;
• putty.

Tools:

• saw;
• jigsaw;
• screwdriver;
• drills (30 mm, 22 mm);
• clamps;
• sandpaper.

Step 1: Planning

This is the most important part of the whole project. The first step is to decide what we want to place and store in the bar:

• wine bottles (~ 8 pieces);
• bottles with low alcohol drinks;
• corkscrew;
• wine corks;
• cutting board;
• wine glasses;
• cocktail glasses;
• glasses.

With such a list of requirements, they began to think over the dimensions of the mini-bar. The width was set at 607mm (inside) and the depth was determined by the length of the bottle of wine that would fit horizontally inside the bar.

For this project I bought a 9mm MDF sheet - 2440 x 1220mm. Here is an approximate plan for cutting this material:

• top: 340 x 607 mm;
• bottom: 340 x 607 mm;
• 2 sides: 460 x 340;
• 2 doors in front: 440 x 303;
• back: 440 x 607;
• 2 vertical partitions: 440 x 320 mm;
• 2 internal horizontal partitions: 607*320mm.

In addition, it took quite a lot of wood scraps to make a wine rack.

Step 2: Create a Wine Rack

To build a wine rack for 8 bottles of download, you need to cut 16 - 300 mm strips of spruce, they were about 20 mm thick.

The next step was sanding and cutting at a 45 degree angle at the ends (solely for aesthetics). 4 strips to attach to one of the side pieces (460 x 340 mm) were spaced vertically at 110 mm intervals. The first strip was attached to the bottom of a 9 mm sheet. Likewise, the 4 others should be attached to one of the inner parts of the rack, however this time the first strip should be placed on the bottom. The remaining 8 need to be screwed back to back on another piece. To do this, I used two strips 50 mm wide, 9 mm thick, they were 440 mm high.

Step 3: Wine glass slides

Given the limited interior space, the desire was to make the glass holder as narrow as possible while still being able to hold 2 glasses side by side. In order to find the optimal placement, glasses were bought and empirically managed to figure out how to fit them into our minibar.

After that, I cut 607 * 320 mm strips and drilled a 10 mm hole, cut out slots for the rack. At the end of the process, it turned out that the slots need to be made a little larger, so it is better not to reduce the width of the slot.

Step 4: Assembling the Case

Now we take our wine racks and coasters and all the materials cut earlier and complete the whole structure. Considering the thickness of the internal partitions at this stage, it was also decided to add slots in the sides of the bar for handles. To do this, I found a suitable spot (where the wine racks are) and drilled two 30mm holes 55mm higher from the bottom of the structure, using a jigsaw to cut out the desired holes. When all the holes are prepared and cut out, it remains only to connect all the details of the bar together.

Step 5. Making a Drawer

You can build a box from 5 pieces of MDF, cut to the right size. In our case, the width is 215 mm and the depth is 40 mm. In the middle we make a small cut with an electric jigsaw, it will serve as a handle for opening.

Step 6. We continue the assembly

To finally assemble the bar, we use glue and screws. Attach the top and bottom boards to the side pieces. Form the center section (horizontal shelves, wine glass holder and vertical dividers). This was done by placing the bottom board 340mm above the bottom, the top shelf ~50mm below the top giving about 30mm for the cutting board and the cup holders about 20mm below the top of the bar. Insert the inside. Add the right side. Add a wine rack to the center section. Add the left side.

To install the doors, you need to slightly reduce the height of the pre-prepared pieces under the door to fit them inside the gap and it is better to remove 2 mm in width on each to ensure comfortable opening (although this parameter will vary depending on the hinges used).

Then insert the loops (which we cut to desired length with a hacksaw) and first fasten the hinges to the doors, and then all together to the bar. After this step, the doors and the entire minibar can be painted. We used two coats of paint, and made the front of the door black as well.

Step 7. Minibar is ready

It remains only to fill these holy bins with essentials: vodka, gin, rum, Cointreau, vermouth, ameretto, etc., as well as cider and wine. The wine cabinet holds 6 bottles, there are also 4 beer glasses, 6 shot glasses and a shaker. The drawer is spacious enough to store a corkscrew, wine corks, knife and other accessories that are a must in any good bar. So now you have everything at your fingertips and in one place, you can use it to your health.

An older version of the same mini-bar. Restoration.

All kinds of beautiful products from new modern materials nevertheless made from natural wood more valued and more popular. This is understandable, because wooden crafts combine natural warmth with unique charm natural material and create a special comfort in the room, whether it is an apartment, house, restaurant or office. In addition, wood products are always fashionable. Simplicity and at the same time originality of design, special elegance, graceful appearance give the products great appeal.

In the manufacture of all types of wood products, oak, beech, maple, larch, walnut, solid pine are used. Each apartment has furniture: cabinets, bedside tables, tables, chairs, walls, all kinds of shelves, flower stands, made from both modern materials and natural wood. If earlier there was certainly a built-in mini-bar in the walls, then recently mini-bars made of natural wood as separate pieces of furniture have become popular. They can be floor or wall in the form of a book, original table, say, in the form of a globe table with a hemispherical lid. Such things are not cheap, but they are willingly purchased by the owners of cottages, country houses as well as cafes, hotels.

Barrel minibars :
Mini-bars stylized as kegs are very interesting. What is such a bar? Imagine a barrel from which (in the center) a small part about 250 mm wide was cut out around the circumference. The result was a barrel with a depth of 250 mm without a bottom. Only for the mini-bar you don’t need to cut anything, but simply from individual boards 250 mm long, 100-150 mm wide, an ellipse-shaped frame is assembled (according to the barrel manufacturing principle). This elliptical barrel, 250 mm deep, is mounted on a stand in such a way that part of the ellipse goes into the stand (for stability).
Between the side curved walls with a width of 250 mm (this is the depth of the barrel), several shelves are attached of such a length that it can be attached to the side walls of the elliptical barrel (they will different lengths). Shelves are designed to store bottles of wine. To prevent bottles from rolling down, figured ends with recesses for the neck of the bottle should be made and attached to the shelves. This is a floor minibar, the finished size can be about 830-850mm in height, and the widest point of the ellipse is about 650mm. The boards from which the barrel is assembled should be sanded and varnished.
The cost of such mini-bars in the floor version from pine - 5000 rubles, from oak is more expensive - up to 7000 rubles.

Such mini-bars can also be made in the wall version. In this case, there is no need for a stand, but loops for hanging on the wall should be provided. The cost of such mini-bars with the same dimensions as the floor version of the open view will be less than the floor.
But you can make a mini-bar of the same type, but with a hinged door, like a bar, also recruited from the same boards.

The cost of such products can be about 8000 rubles. To make minibars, you need woodworking skills, as well as a set of the simplest tools for woodworking.
Materials can now be purchased at any store building materials. Even with the cost of products up to 3,000 rubles, you can earn about 3,000 rubles from each mini-bar.

Recommendations :
It is not necessary to make just such mini-bars, you can come up with your own design that will harmoniously fit into the interior of the sauna country house or hotels. They can be made in the form of a book. Portable such folios (for one bottle with 2-6 cups) with interior decoration flock and carved lid can cost up to 15 thousand rubles.
It is better to purchase material from waste that remains at woodworking enterprises (parquet, etc.), furniture factories. The costs will be much less.
Find out where in your area the interior of hotels is changing or new ones are being built, offer your products, perhaps you will receive a large order.

Profitability :
Initial costs: from 10 thousand rubles.
Monthly income: from 20 thousand rubles.