Home bar cabinets in New Jersey — wet bars, beverage centres and bar walls

What goes into a bar wall

• Uppers with glass. Clear, reeded or seeded glass doors with LED strips inside — the black-framed glass bar uppers in Cranford, the Sable-stained bar with glass uppers and a wine refrigerator.
• A beverage centre or wine refrigerator under the counter — 15 or 24 inches wide, panel-ready or stainless — the walnut hutch with a beverage centre.
• A sink for a wet bar, or a coffee station for a dry one: the Timber coffee bar in Oradell with floating shelves.
• A darker or warmer finish than the kitchen — stained, black, navy, green — so the bar reads as furniture.
• Floating shelves and a slab or tile back for the bottles and glasses you want to see.

Where the bar goes

Off the dining room, at the end of a kitchen run, in a butler's pantry between the kitchen and the dining room, in a finished basement. The whole-home orders — Montclair, South Orange, the Mount Arlington lake house — had the bar drawn with the kitchen so the finishes relate and everything arrived together. The Livingston kitchen adds a bar and a pantry in the same Luna Dove and Timber.

Bars in every line

A bar is built from standard wall and base cabinets with glass doors, panels and open shelves, so it is possible at the stocked level; reeded glass, interior lighting, custom colours and furniture details come from the semi-custom lines. Bring a photo of the wall and its length and the designer draws it with the kitchen — or on its own.