Home Bars & Coffee Stations | Kitchen Design Ideas Edinburgh

One thing we’re seeing more of when designing kitchens is customers wanting a dedicated area for the things they enjoy – and the home bar is a great example.

Forget simply adding a wine rack to the end of a run of units. Today’s home bar can be a real feature of the kitchen, designed specifically for entertaining and displaying your favourite bottles, glassware and accessories.

And if a G&T isn’t your thing? The same idea works brilliantly as a coffee station or breakfast cupboard.

A home bar can be as subtle or as much of a statement as you like.

We can create a dedicated section of cabinetry with a worktop for preparing drinks, drawers and cupboards below for storage and open shelving above for displaying your favourite bottles and glasses. Add some feature lighting and a contrasting finish, and suddenly it becomes a focal point rather than an afterthought.

For customers with a bit more room, a dedicated larder-style cupboard can work particularly well. Open the doors and everything you need is together; close them and the kitchen immediately looks neat and uncluttered.

One of the things we like about designing a home bar is the opportunity to have a little fun with it.

You don’t necessarily need to match the rest of your kitchen exactly. A contrasting cabinet colour, timber-effect internals, open shelving, a mirrored or decorative splashback and warm LED lighting can all help define the area.

The same principle works just as well if your drink of choice comes from a coffee machine rather than a bottle.

Dedicated coffee stations are becoming increasingly popular. Instead of having your coffee machine, pods, mugs, sugar and everything else spread across the main kitchen worktop, we can give them their own home.

A coffee station might include a worktop for the machine, drawers for pods or beans and open shelving for mugs. Alternatively, we can hide everything inside a cupboard, giving you easy access in the morning without leaving appliances permanently on display.

You can take the idea a stage further and create a complete breakfast station.

Think coffee machine, kettle and toaster together, with cereals, bread and spreads all stored nearby. Depending on the design, sockets can be incorporated so that appliances are ready to use without having to move them around the kitchen every morning.

Then, once breakfast is finished, everything can be tucked neatly away.

For busy family kitchens, it’s a simple idea that can make the morning routine much easier while keeping the main worktops clear.

Whether it’s a home bar for Friday night, a coffee station for your morning espresso or a breakfast cupboard that makes getting everyone out the door that little bit easier, these dedicated zones are all about the same thing: designing your kitchen around how you actually use it.

That’s always something we discuss with customers during the design process. The little details and routines can make a big difference to the finished kitchen.

If you’re planning a new kitchen and like the idea of incorporating a home bar, coffee station or breakfast cupboard, get in touch.