Decorate your bar area with mementos, collectibles, mirrors or favorite photos. Create an exotic ambiance with a treasures, beautiful woods and lighting, or add smoky mirror tiles to the wall behind your bar for a clean, modern approach. Turn your bar into a gallery of favorite photos you've taken or simply fallen in love with. Accent the gallery with warm lighting and camera-related accessories if you are a photography buff. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Install shelving along the wall behind and around the sides of the bar area to accommodate souvenirs from your travels or your favorite collectibles. The shelves can be randomly placed or lined up in a row, whatever works best for your collection. The bar stools and lighting should fall in line with your display; exotic teak or mahogany stools and decorative wrought-iron sconces compliment exotic locations, while simple white wooden stools work well as a companion to a sports-related display. If you have a pool table in the room with your bar area, select lighting that matches for over the bar and the pool table to unify the room.
2. Decorate the wall directly behind the bar with mirror tiles that are smoky, clear or antiqued, whichever works best with the decor in your room. You can find mirror tiles and mirror adhesive at your local home-improvement store. Most of the tiles are 12 inches square, making it easy to calculate how many you'll need. Cover the entire wall, halfway up the wall or the center of the wall facing the back of the bar. Stick the tiles to a 1/2--inch-thick backer board for easier installation and removal. Your bar stools should compliment the mirror tiles: sleek chrome for the smoky or clear finish, and decoratively carved wood for the antique effect. Finish the bar area decor with plants and small lamps, or a chandelier for dramatic effect.
3. Create a wall bank of your favorite photos behind and around the bar area. Mat and frame them all the same to unify the space, or create groupings of similar content in different areas of the bar. Black-and-white photos of your family, or colorful landscapes and botanicals can be in the same space, but on different walls. Group three, four or five framed photos together in a diamond pattern along one of the bar walls. Place one or two old cameras on the bar as accessories and conversation pieces. Focus on the lighting for your photographs with spotlights and picture lights rather than overhead lighting.
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