I love the trend of styling a bar cart for extra storage space anywhere in your house, from entryways to bathrooms and kitchens to bedrooms. Yes, even a baby nursery! It’s an inexpensive storage solution, since you can find cheap bar carts at garage sales, antique shops, or even craft stores. And there’s nothing to put together, so you don’t have to worry about hours of assembly time. A way to cut the clutter without paying a ton of money or doing a tricky DIY? And it’s stylish?! Sign us up.
To help you get started, I’ve rounded up cool ways to style a bar cart for every room in your house. Check out these ideas, and get inspired!
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9 Ways to Style a Bar Cart in Any Room of the House
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Greens on Top, Booze Below
Perfect for: The Dining Room
This Copenhagen-based lifestyle blogger has the right idea -- a little bit of green and a lot of liquid sustainability. Your bar cart can be functional as originally intended while taking on a new role, like home to the houseplants. Talk about lush! -
The Bath Necessities
Perfect for: The Bathroom
Using a bar cart in the bathroom is a growing trend and with good reason. This allows you to show off those pretty products you don’t want to hide away in a medicine cabinet, plus it allows easy access to essentials like cotton swabs and hand cream.Photo: Style Me Pretty
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Reclaimed Statement Piece
Perfect for: The Entryway
This blogger jazzed up a found bar cart that needed major TLC and brought it back to life. Using resin, she added whimsical colors that make the piece pop. As styled here, you can use a colorful bar cart for just about anything from books to scent sticks.Photo: Delicious and DIY
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Living Room Magic
Perfect for: The Living Room
Most of us have bits and bobs we’d love to display somewhere, but bookcases aren’t always the answer. Bar cart styling creates a perfect place to rest a lamp, your favorite coffee table book, and as seen here an ice bucket and refreshing beverages. Excuse me while I go copy every single thing the mom blogger behind this one has done!Photo: The Pink Dream
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Office Essentials
Perfect for: The Home Office
Make your home office must-haves look pretty while keeping them accessible. A bar cart is the perfect place for storing office supplies, files, and resource materials beside your desk.Photo: The Every Girl
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Boozy Bedroom
Perfect for: The Bedroom
You can totally use your bar cart as an actual bar cart, but here’s an idea about how to elevate and personalize that concept. Kristin of Bliss At Home lifestyle blog spruced up this vintage looking bar cart as a bedroom cocktail station of epic proportions. In addition to your ice, bottles, and mixing tools, add framed art, a lamp, and fresh flowers to take your bar cart decorating to the next level.Photo: Bliss at Home
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Oh, Baby!
Perfect for: The Nursery
I just had a baby, and I'll admit that while her room is adorable, I still haven't quite figured out storage. This bar cart hack for diapers, burp clothes, and so on keeps baby necessities close at hand while making them look somehow chic. Definitely going to set up a corner of my baby girls' room just like this.Photo: Hello Baby Brown
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Coffee Cart
Perfect for: The Kitchen
What keeps moms sustained until cocktail time? Coffee, of course. Turn your bar cart into a breakfast nook or kitchen corner sensation with mugs, a coffee machine, and milk steamer or French press if you have them. This blogger adds fresh flowers for a little pop of pretty.Photo: Angela Marie Made Blog
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Beauty Bar
Perfect for: Anywhere in your home
Glam mamas know that getting makeup and hair stuff organized can be a real nightmare. Well, a beauty bar cart might be your dream come true. Personally, I find my makeup gets shoved in drawers and I can never find what I want when I need it. Problem solved, thanks to everyone's new favorite home decorating piece: the bar cart!Photo: Rock my Style
