17 Coffee Bar Ideas to Channel Your Favorite Cafe at Home
Whether in your kitchen, a working pantry, dining room corner, or even tucked inside of a vacant closet, a home coffee bar is well worth considering. But if you've found yourself here, we probably don't have to tell you that twice. You're in good company! We, too, love to design with our lifestyle slash routines in mind, and caffeine consumption is absolutely a daily priority. Plus, making coffee at home is a great way to save. With a chic home coffee bar design, it'll feel like going to your favorite cafe every day without actually having to leave the houses—and even if you aren't a huge coffee person, it'll make a world of difference next time you have house guests. Keep reading for 17 home coffee bar ideas so good, you'll probably turn into a morning person.
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Minimize Heavy Lifting

A farmhouse chic kitchen proves that laidback interiors can jive with high-tech appliances, given the right treatment. Even better, Alison Giese built the cabinets so that the heavier and more fragile items that get a lot of use (like an espresso machine) are easily accessible and easily hidden. If the cabinet shelf is actually just an extension of the counter, you won't have to lift and move the machine, but cover it up with an enclosure when needed.
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Transform a Hallway

Catherine Kwong transformed this hallway into a chic home coffee bar. The cabinets and hidden mini fridge provide plenty of storage so the surfaces are free for decor and prep work. Best of all, having this mini kitchen meets home coffee bar in an upstairs hallway saves the occupants from having to make trips up and down to the main kitchen.
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Make It Stand Out With Contrasting Cabinets

A hard-to-find coffee station pre-coffee is...not ideal. In this kitchen, Natalie Chong wisely opted for high-contrast cabinetry to make the coffee machine pop visually, and thus, be super easy to spot first thing in the morning. Plus, it adds some intrigue to the otherwise all-white wall.
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Splurge on Appliances

Interior designer Michelle Nussbaumer chose a warm color palette and packs plenty of texture-rich materials into this small kitchen. And though it may be compact, it has all the bells and whistles, namely, a built-in Thermador coffee maker. It even knows Nussbaumer’s go-to drink order, while a water dispenser (and sink and faucet) from Elkay ups her daily java intake.
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Put It In a Cabinet

Designed by Emily Henderson, this home coffee bar blends in completely with the rest of the kitchen since it's tucked away inside a cabinet. Stocked with other breakfast ingredients, it's a one-stop-shop in the morning. Read More...