over the past few months, as you may have noticed, we’ve been really getting into coffee. this slight obsession has resulted in lots of different both green and roasted coffee beans, several different coffee brewers, a new grinder, a gram scale, an electric water kettle, and other miscellaneous coffee paraphernalia. we’ve been discussing for a while now how great it would be if we had two of our ikea-hacked bar cabinets in our kitchen: one for drinks, and one for coffee. however, due to space constraints and a lack of ikea nearby, that wouldn’t work out.

this past weekend, we decided to get a new cabinet to serve as our drink bar, and we set it up in the living room so the existing bar could accomodate our coffee stuff. initially, i was a little worried that i wouldn’t like having our bar in the living room, but i actually love it! it feels really old-timey, and what i especially love is that we set it up such that we can actually prepare drinks on the top surface of the cabinet. with the other bar, everything looked nice on the shelves, but we had to take everything off and move to the kitchen counter to actually make a drink.

we also decided to just keep two of each type of glass (white wine, stemless red, pint glass, champagne flute, etc) out on the new bar instead of all of our glassware to keep things simple. we don’t usually use more than two at a time anyways, and we have plenty of cabinet space in our kitchen to store the rest for when we do have drinking company. we hung the stemmed glasses on the same wine rack we used on the old bar, and put the other half in a wicker basket tray we picked up at target.

i’m still working on setting up the new coffee bar, but once it’s finished, we’ll post photos of that here, too! i’m excited to have designated areas for all our favorite beverages now! oh, and that muddled berry gin + tonic you see on the chalkboard? delicious. i’ll post the recipe here soon.