Having your own bar in the apartment or in the house allows you to create in the room a unique effect of a lively Parisian cafe or a conservative Irish pub. That's why the idea of creating bar counters in kitchen spaces has recently enjoyed an enviable popularity. In addition, bar construction in the kitchen or in the dining room allows you to make maximum use of the internal volume of the premises, emphasizing its advantages.
Bar counter by yourself
With the help of the bar you can make a clear zoning of the room, separating the cooking area from the reception area. Also, the bar rack can be used as an auxiliary element when serving the table, expanding the working space of the cook or housewife.
The modern building materials market allows to use a lot of modern materials for designing a bar rack, and a huge assortment of leading stores gives you the opportunity to create a bar rack in your home with your hands using a minimum set of technological skills and tools.
First of all, draw on millimeter paper or create in a special program a drawing of your kitchen or living room. Using a computer to design a bar counter will allow you to consider all the options for its location, dimensions, design features, and the illumination modeled in such programs will give you the opportunity to get a photorealistic image of the planned design that you can show to interested household members. With the use of millimeter paper, you get only a flat drawing, but, nevertheless, this approach will avoid creating an unattractive design.
Choosing a possible bar counter
So, let's look at the most common bar table designs, typical solutions that are very common for creating interiors.
The most attractive classic option is to create a rack as a separate self-contained element, which has fixation by special consoles. It is recommended to create a bar rack so that the maximum height of its working surface is 1.1 - 1.2 meters from the floor level. This height allows the use of special bar chairs, the hallmark of which is a special footrest. Such chairs can also be equipped with backrests and armrests.
Another popular variant of the bar design is the combination of a dining table and the actual rack. With this approach, the height of the working surface can be about 0.9 meters. With this design, ordinary chairs are used.
Bar counter option
Bar counter can also have a working surface, located on two levels. That is, a higher working surface of the bar itself can directly adjoin the dining table. This option can advantageously zoned the room, while the low part remains in the dining area, and the high part is located in the living room area.
Photo - bar
Also for larger room sizes, you can also consider the option of placing a bar in the center of the kitchen / dining room. In this case, the design of the bar can be integrated into the kitchen "island" itself, which enjoys well-deserved popularity among professional cooks. In that case, the inner surface of the rack can be used as a storage space for kitchen utensils.
Let's consider one of the variants of manufacturing a bar rack with our own hands.
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So, in order to start designing the bar, we need to collect the following property:
- -wood logs not less than 5 cm wide,
- -trim board with a width of at least 2.5 cm,
- -gypsum board or wood board,
- -decorative ceiling modding,
- -full skirting boards,
- -fastening: nails andscrews,
- -putty for working on wooden surfaces,
- -paints and sealants,
- -decorative finishing elements.
Bar technology
After you calculate the geometric dimensions of the planned bar rack and its configuration - you can proceed directly to work. At the heart of the bar counter will be wooden bars. Of these, it is necessary to create a "skeleton" of the structure, leaving the necessary allowances for finishing elements( on the plasterboard skin from the sides, on the top of the tabletop).Try to make the construction as rigid as possible using the connecting elements. Wooden bars can be fastened together by means of a stud joint or by butt, using steel corners and screws.
One of the sides of your future bar counter can be attached directly to other interior elements, for example to the kitchen table, working furniture elements or just to the wall. From this side, the number of force elements of the frame can be reduced. On the other end, which will not be attached to third-party structures - the power "skeleton" must be made as rigid as possible, with a large number of connecting elements. As a fastening fastener, you can also use ordinary nails, the length of which should exceed the thickness of the power bar by at least a half times.
The bar chart
After creating the power frame it must be docked to other elements of your interior. Fix the frame of the bar counter to the wall using screws with dowels. In the case of connecting the bar counter with other furniture elements, bolts can be used as fasteners, passing through the wooden bars and furniture walls.
In order to level the top surface of the bar counter, additional bars can be placed on this section of the frame, or the level can be adjusted using adjustable legs. In either case, the horizontal level of the upper working surface must be checked with a level.
For facing the sides of the bar, you can use sheets of gypsum board or fiberboard. When designing the rack, you can provide internal working compartments, open shelves. And also decorative elements of illumination. When implementing electrical wiring, do not forget to leave the holes under the power cable.
The upper working surface can be created using a conventional finished countertop, which is abundantly sold in good building materials stores. However, if you make a bar counter, for example, for a rest room in a bath room, then as a table-top you can use well-processed edging boards, having fastened them to the frame of the rack with usual nails.
Bar counter from worktop
After fixing the power frame, process the cracks formed between the frame elements. They can be filled with a special sealant, designed for woodworking. Also, treat the putty with the putty, formed when overlaying the skin sheets. Carefully process joints with sandpaper, prepare the structure for the final painting or processing with decorative materials( for example, self-adhesive film).At the final stage, you can decorate the outer side surfaces of the bar with decorative elements, for example, spotlights.
Variant of a beautiful bar for the kitchen
However, the simplest design of the bar in a small kitchen will be a ready-made countertop. At one end, it can be attached directly to the wall, as a support of the other end can be used finished rack, which is also sold in the stores of building materials.
Components of the bar