This beverage and coffee station in Melrose, Massachusetts, is part of a kitchen remodeled by lead designer Amy Tangorra and her team at Our House Design + Build. It has a wine fridge, a copper prep sink, a soapstone-look engineered stone countertop, reeded glass doors on an upper cabinet, a beer tap and open shelves for glassware and mugs. The warm wood cabinetry coordinates with the kitchen cabinets, and the backsplash’s handmade leaf-shaped teal tiles coordinate with the banquette and dining chairs that sit just across from it.

Arched architectural features and decorative elements echo throughout this San Francisco home designed by Jeni Gamble of Gamble + Design, including in this striking bar niche. In addition to the arched shape of the niche itself, the design of the blue-green cabinet doors includes a curved play on Shaker-style door frames. The cabinetry’s black hardware complements the dark countertop, and a modern pendant light pops in front of moody ombre wallpaper.

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When reimagining the kitchen of a historic Victorian house in Columbus, Ohio, designer Laura Watson and design consultant Shannon Tannehill of The Cleary Co. were careful to ensure that its style meshed with that of the rest of the home. This bar area sits within that kitchen and shares its dark green cabinetry, quartz countertop, walnut details and overall consistency with the home’s original architectural features. Speaking of mesh, Watson, who used Houzz ideabooks to share ideas with her client, dressed up the uppermost cabinets with metal mesh grilles that coordinate with the brass hardware.

This Bluffton, South Carolina, wet bar is in a prominent location in the home’s dining room, so Tom and Leighann Markalunas of Markalunas Architecture Group embraced the opportunity to make a statement. The bar has a Mont Blanc quartzite countertop, a backsplash made of porcelain matte black picket tile, a beverage fridge and ice maker built into custom white oak cabinets, and an undermount sink. Floating shelves that coordinate with the satin gold faucet flank a colorful abstract artwork illuminated by a picture light.

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Zoom into the marble mosaic backsplash of this Warren, New Jersey, beverage station to see pretty bowtie-shaped brass accents that coordinate with the cabinet hardware, sconce and faucet. Part of a kitchen designed by Alison Melnick of Catherine Rose Design, the beverage area has knotty wood cabinetry that coordinates with the kitchen island and contrasts with the creamy white perimeter cabinetry. Melnick used the same mosaic tile throughout, which helps tie the kitchen together.

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This coastal-style charcoal-and-white bar sits in a living room of a lovely lakeside home in Charlotte, Vermont, designed by Cliff Deetjen of Peregrine Design Build and Lauren Miles. The bar — custom-built by Wooden Hammer — has a simple elegance and thoughtful details, including specific custom pullouts for bottle and bar tool storage, a wine fridge, a 24-inch fridge drawer, aged brass hardware, open shelves featuring custom wood stemware racks, and shiplap backing.

When redesigning an Acton, Massachusetts, kitchen for an active family, Gabrielle Bove of Opaline Interiors Studio reconfigured the layout and relocated a dining area in order to accommodate this hardworking beverage station, which has a stainless steel sink, a beverage fridge and an ice maker. In the morning it functions as a coffee station; later it transitions into a grab-and-go beverage zone for the kids. At night, it transforms into a cocktail bar for the grownups. Its earthy style comes compliments of cerused white oak cabinets, a black leathered soapstone countertop and hand-glazed ceramic tile.

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