Both Landon and I grew up in homes where there was rarely alcohol. I honestly don’t ever remember seeing my mother drink. We laugh now because whenever we are at either of our parents’ homes, they are asking us if we want a drink before we even get our shoes off. My how things change! To take after their present day hosting antics, we took it a step further and made a home bar – complete with an oh-so-trendy gallery wall.
It’s kind of astounding that we even need a bar when we have a wine rack built into our cabinets (and beer should be refrigerated). But there is a season for liquor (mine is usually allergy season because I don’t need more histamines from wine making breathing difficult) and we have all these fancy glasses. The Mr & Mrs wine glasses were a shower gift. The Yours, Mine, and Ours glasses and decanter, a wedding gift. We also have our glasses from when we went on the brewstillery tour in Nashville. The iridescent goblet-like glasses and pitcher were my grandma’s and have a matching chip and dip bowl. We have a dozen more wine glasses in the cupboard (you know, for everyday use). I suppose we are missing martini glasses but honestly, I’d rather go to our local wine bar for a martini than try to make one. (Yes, you read that right, our wine bar makes martinis.)
![Yours, Mine, & Ours set. Mr & Mrs wine glasses.](http://thebluedoorandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0365-1024x866.jpg)
![Glasses from the brewstillery](http://thebluedoorandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0364-1024x829.jpg)
A tray is a bar cart necessity
When I searched Pinterest for bar cart ideas, they always seemed to have a tray to anchor the bottles on top. I have this lovely silver one from my grandma (not the same grandma I got the goblets from) and thought it added enough vintage charm to make our drinks feel exceptionally classy. I have doubts that this grandmother of mine has ever really had a drink but hopefully she doesn’t mind us using her tray for our own speakeasy.
The best part of putting all this together was making the wall art. I shared a sneak peek a couple weeks ago about the cork sphere. It used all the corks we had (we are more Bota Box type people). Side note – Amazon sells wine corks!
The printables were the most fun. They actually came together really fast, which is unusual for my perfectionist self. I already had all the frames from half a dozen apartments ago but never got around to using them before. I spray painted all of them black and then started putting holes in our walls to hang them.
![Bar art gallery wall](http://thebluedoorandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0366-1024x745.jpg)
These printables have definitely opened me up to so many other ideas for our house. At one point I had a bunch half done and open on my computer. Every time I’d start one I’d get an idea for another and have to start that before I forgot what it was. We’ll see where else our walls get affected in the coming months. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a mint plant that is begging to be made into a mojito at The Bar.
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