Set Up A Coffee Bar
Coffee bar here I come!
Most agree that Pinterest is both a blessing and a curse. It can literally suck hours of mindless surfing from your day, but it can also offer brilliant ideas for decorating or whatever else you happen to be looking for. While DIY renovating our kitchen 2 years ago, I dreamed of adding an area for a coffee bar.
I honestly didn’t know coffee bars were even a thing, until I stumbled upon it while looking for backsplash ideas for the renovation. I started perusing Pinterest in hopes of finding the perfect plan for how to set it up. After finding a few ideas I thought I could implement, I started shopping.
Shopping…
Now, when I say shopping, what I actually mean is, I went to my parents house and went through their basement and barn to find the antiques I was looking for. I needed some small and medium sized wooden crates to house the coffee cups, wire locker baskets to hold coffee bags and k-cups and some old antique jars to hold ground coffee.
While digging in my dad’s shed for a thick piece of wood for the shelf, I was pleasantly surprised when he told me I could use a piece of the blackboard that had come from the 1-room school house he grew up in! So cool!! I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
Putting pencil to paper, I dreampt up the rough draft and started dragging in the treasures I had accumulated. The anchor piece was a buffet table I found at Pier 1. They don’t carry the exact same one anymore, but this is the one they carry now, if you’re interested. Here and here are a couple more that are similar too. The one I found was Antique Ivory in color, which ended up being a LOT more yellow than what I had anticipated, but ended up matching wonderfully!
Putting it all together!
After putting together the buffet and setting up the storage boxes and baskets for coffee and cups, I enlisted my daughter to help me with the chalkboard. She’s quite an artist and I knew she would be able to bring my vision to life. I had seen images on Pinterest of some cute coffee cup drawings and I was confident I could tweak them to portray what our family likes. See the photos to get the gist. It took her a good several months to complete, but she’s a busy college student, and a perfectionist. My chalkboard project didn’t rank very high when there were school assignments due. It’s ok. It was totally worth the wait! Don’t you love it? It’s SO awesome! The chalk painted cups represent our family’s favorite coffee drinks and flavors.
Ta da!
Now that everything is complete, I just love it… the whole thing! Here’s some tidbits on the finishing touches. The short, antique tin coffee cans were purchased from a flea market on the 4th of July. One of the locker baskets was ‘picked’ at another market, the wooden box on the bottom shelf was from Gordman’s, if I remember correctly, and most of the rest of the fun finds were laying around either my basement or my parents’ house and barn just waiting to be used. I couldn’t be happier!
There’s just something comforting about a cup of coffee. Warm, deep, relaxing, fragrant, the combination just puts my mind at peace. Pair this with an open Bible and you have yourself an awesome morning brewing! Now where did I put my reading glasses??
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