14 Stylish DIYs For Your Home Bar

stylish diys for your home bar

Many homeowners have a home bar – to enjoy a drink or two and offer them to the guests, too. If you have a home bar and wanna spruce it up a little bit, I have some creative ideas that you may like. Here you’ll see colorful pitchers and etched bar ware, neon signs and painted artworks, decorative tassel bottle markers and stamped liquor tags – everything you may need for a bar and everything you may like. Interested? Let’s have a look at them all!

Bar Ware

Summer is coming and it’s high time to add some color to your bar or bar cart. Grab your usual bar ware (or buy something new) and get some bright spray paints. This tutorial will tell you how to make super colorful gradient bar ware – everything is spray painted here! Add some matching art, and your bar is styled for summer or just raises your mood with bold colors.

DIY gradient bar ware (via akailochiclife.com).

DIY gradient bar ware (via akailochiclife.com).

I love this stylish bar ware set because gold is timeless! The whole set is decorated with permanent gold vinyl: the bottle is done with a stripe and the glasses are decorated with some stars here and there. Add gold straws for cocktails and voila – your bar received a stylish and refined look.

DIY gold bar ware set (via abeautifulmess.com).

DIY gold bar ware set (via abeautifulmess.com).

Personalize the glasses to make your bar more chic, all you need is some glasses, glass-etching cream and vinyl stencils. You’ll be able to give them as gifts, too, if you want. Choose not only names but also nicknames or some other ideas that you like, for example, your sweetheart names. Enjoy!

DIY etched whiskey glasses (via www.attagirlsays.com).

DIY etched whiskey glasses (via www.attagirlsays.com).

A pitcher can be part of your bar, too, especially if you love refreshing drinks and juices. You can make a colorful and fun pitcher using colorful acrylic paints. Splatter the paints chaotically on the pitcher and make a bold item for the bar. Spruce up the bar and enjoy!

DIY colorful splatter pitcher (via akailochiclife.com).

DIY colorful splatter pitcher (via akailochiclife.com).

Here’s another craft for etching, the carafes are done with etched stripes, and to recreate even stripes, use masking tape. The craft is very simple and cool, and your simple glass carafes will be much more stylish and chic with this decor. You may also add the same look to the glasses to make them more matching.

DIY etched glass carafes (via www.aimeemars.com).

DIY etched glass carafes (via www.aimeemars.com).

This pressed flower set looks very chic and refined, I totally love glasses and the decanter! The whole idea is about a clear glass set, pressed real flowers and a decoupage set. Decoupage the flowers to the bottoms and make them more special and cool. Make every glass special attaching different blooms and herbs to the bottom. Wow, so cool!

DIY pressed flower decanter and glasses (via jojotastic.com).

DIY pressed flower decanter and glasses (via jojotastic.com).

Tropical parties are extremely popular and if you are planning one, you’ll definitely need this amazing decanter! This piece is made using clay, of which you’ll make large palm leaves to attach to the decanter. I totally love the item, it will spruce up any tropical party for sure, get inspired and craft one for your party!

DIY palm leaf bar decanter (via akailochiclife.com).

DIY palm leaf bar decanter (via akailochiclife.com).

How to turn a usual or vintage bottle into a chic and refined decanter? This tutorial will tell you how to do that and how to make decorative corks, too – they are decorated with amazing flowers. The resulting pieces are chic and stylish, these are vintage decanters with floral corks. Enjoy!

DIY vintage decorative decanters (via heartofgoldandluxury.blogspot.nl).

DIY vintage decorative decanters (via heartofgoldandluxury.blogspot.nl).

These colorful pumpkin decanters are ideal for fall bars but they are so colorful that I would use them even in the summer, for a rustic feel. To give your decanters a pumpkin look, go for wood balls painted in bold and bright colors and attach faux pumpkin stems on top. Let them dry and put into decanters, voila! If you need more details, head over to the tutorial to find out how to make these items.

DIY colorful pumpkin decanters (via akailochiclife.com).

DIY colorful pumpkin decanters (via akailochiclife.com).

Tags And Markers

Marking each bottle to remember what’s inside is sometimes a necessary idea for a bar. Get some colorful cardstock and make tassels of it to make each bottle. The whole craft is extremely simple and won’t take much time, though it’s very cool and fun. Add a colorful touch to your bar to remember what’s there!

DIY bright cardboard tassel decanter tags (via www.clubcrafted.com).

DIY bright cardboard tassel decanter tags (via www.clubcrafted.com).

These tags are stylish and chic, making them will take some time but they are worth it! They are made of thick leather and chains, and you may stamp the tags with the names of the drinks. Make as many as you need to unify the bar with their looks. Very refined!

DIY stamped leather liquor tags (via diyinpdx.com).

DIY stamped leather liquor tags (via diyinpdx.com).

Here’s one more idea for making drink tags: these are stylish metal ones. You’ll need metal stamping blanks in your desired size and shape and some gold chain. Keep in mind that such a craft requires some working as stamping metal isn’t very easy but the resulting pieces are really nice. Enjoy!

DIY stamped metal liquor labels (via abeautifulmess.com).

DIY stamped metal liquor labels (via abeautifulmess.com).

Decor

Make a fun neon sign to make your bar bolder! This tutorial will tell you how to make a cool CHEERS neon sign in a bowl (to make it stable), and fill the bowl with nuts or pebbles – it’s up to you. You may actually go for any words you like, get inspired!

DIY bar neon sign (via www.pmqfortwo.com).

DIY bar neon sign (via www.pmqfortwo.com).

Here’s one more simple bar decor idea: a boozy bottle art piece. The craft is a nice idea for those who love painting and drawing because the tutorial is about it. Add any personalized touches that you like to the artwork and spruce up your bar with it! If you don’t feel like painting, print out something like that and frame it, and voila!

DIY boozy bottles artwork (via www.pmqfortwo.com).

DIY boozy bottles artwork (via www.pmqfortwo.com).