Staying in is the new black, and popping the lids off a few Bacardi Breezers and a serving a bowl of peanuts just isn’t the way to do it anymore.
A contemporary home bar brings an element of glamour and sophistication to your front room – enveloped in a retro classic design, home bars can be the perfect place to store all your exotic mixers and little umbrellas, they make the ideal place to stand around and chat.
The best action and loudest laughs alway takes place round the bar in the pub, and home bars are no different. It adds a whole new sociable dimension to your gatherings – no longer does everyone have to crowd in the kitchen or shout across the living room – standing round a home bar brings intimacy, closeness and true feeling of camaraderie. Especially once you start working through a cocktail book and making strong drinks with rude sounding names.
Inspired by Hollywood Americana, Italian designers and contemporary furniture designs, home bars offer a choice of beautiful art deco and mirrored designs. Many of them are sturdy, robust, and constructed from high quality materials.
A retro home bar can also be complemented with a modern bar stool – from contemporary wooden to swanky swivel types. Team a set of bar stools with your beautiful new home bar and you can play Tom Cruise any night of the week.
Just mind the lights when you start chucking those bottles round.
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