TGIF – Thank Goodness It’s Finished! Long overdue but just in time for the weekend, here’s installment three in our series on How to Stock a Home Bar Like a Pro (For Cheap). During this three-part series, we’ve found that it’s possible to stock a home bar cabinet for less than $100 easy at IKEA.  Now find out how to store your bar accoutrements in style! Read part one on glassware and part two on utensils, barware and equipment.  And please – drink responsibly!

Hacking IKEA Cabinets into Bars

Over on IKEA Hacker, we found this EXPEDIT cabinet by Mike:

And this bar counter made by Eric with and EFFEKTIV high cabinet, a PRAGEL countertop and 2 VIKA BYSKE legs.

IKEA Sideboards, Cabinets and Bookcases for Bar Use

Here are some of the ideas we’ve come up with (or have been suggested to us!) for use as bar cabinets.  Below, three radically different styles of sideboard – each equally suitable as a bar cabinet, and can double as a serving area as well. From top to bottom: TROLLSTA sideboard in Yellow, also available in black ($349); IKEA PS Cabinet in Red, also available in white ($99.99); BJURSTA Sideboard in Black-Brown, also available in Birch and Yellow-Brown ($249).

For the more vertically oriented, you have many options not the least of which are the BJURSTA in Black-Brown, also available in Birch or Yellow-Brown ($349), the IKEA STOCKHOLM cabinet with the cool round door in warm oak for $299 or good old BILLY with BYOM doors in Black-Brown or any number of other finish options.

We recently picked a couple of the discontinued ESTETISK CD/DVD cabinet for only $10 each:

Lighting Up Your Bar Cabinet

Non lights light up the inside of Mike’s EXPEDIT shelving unit cum bar:

IKEA TRETTIOEN LED lights light up the interior of this BONDE bar cabinet by A.J.Kandy, seen at Flickr.com

Liquor Storage

E-gullet brings us cabinets and shelves overflowing with liquor!

So, there you have it! Everything we know about stocking a home bar at IKEA. I’m sure we’ve missed a bunch – what do you know that we missed?  Tell us by clicking on reply!

NOTE: *IKEAFANS does not condone drunken underage partying. This article is directed at those ‘back to college’ after a hiatus … long after their 21st birthdays.Everyone knows college kids drink out of beerbongs and funny beer hats anyway.Please, if you’re going to drink, drink responsibly.

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