Coffee Bar DIY Project ~

For anyone who reads this blog, I am sure that you have figured out that we love coffee. However, we don’t all like it the same way in this household and we also like to experiment with flavors. So, this can make for a lot of space needed for our coffee enjoyment. I wanted a place to organize all of our coffee and hot tea together {instead of having it thrown in various cabinets and the pantry} so I decided to make a self serve coffee bar.

Self Serve Coffee Bar: All The Fun, Without The Barista

First, we needed a piece of furniture that would work great for storing our coffee and tea products. With two sizeable drawers and an ample amount of working space, we decided to use our HGTV Home Furniture Bombe Chest for this project. First, I gathered up all of the new boxes of tea and put them in the bottom drawer. Next, I gathered up all the tumblers that we had lying around the house {ever notice how hard these can be to store?} and put them in the bottom drawer. However, they take up a lot of space that I think I would rather use for more coffee and tea, so I may be moving them out of the drawer later. So, if you make yourself a coffee bar, I would think about this part first. The rest I love. 🙂

We had organized our tea bags previously, so we just took the basket that we used for that project and added it all to the top drawer of the bombe chest. Then I used two plastic storage containers and put the majority of our kcups in them. I divided them into coffee in one container and tea in the other.

The top of the coffee bar has most of the essentials that one needs to make a great cup of coffee. We have our Keurig, a couple stacks of coffee cups {keepers and disposable}, and add in type items like sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. I also used a blue glass storage container set that I picked up at a yard sale that I still had no idea what I was going to do with. In the biggest section, I put single serve coffee, tea and water drinks, like Nescafe, Crystal Light, etc. In the middle container, I put all of our Equal packets and in the smallest container, I put a pack of blueberry tea in there, as that is Amber’s favorite, so that saves her getting in the drawer.

I also added our YouCopia Coffee Stack to the top of the coffee bar. I used this to store things like hot chocolate, apple cider, decaf coffee and iced coffee. These are the kcups that we don’t always have as many of as we do the ones in the drawer, but they still need a storage area.

And finally, I added a Cottonelle flushable wipes pack to the top because we know the hubs will spill something. 😉

So, what do you think? Any suggestions on other items to add to our coffee bar?