Styling a Bar Cart for Everyday

Bar carts are having a major comeback, and are "the it" must having for your living room or dining room. One of my favorite recent additions in our home is the Eliza bar cart I added from The Home Decorators Collection to our small dining room. Designing a small dinning room and giving it style can be a challenge. To give our dining room extra storage that is also practical, I thought a bar cart would be the perfect stylish solution.

A few reasons I love bar carts: they up the style factor in small spaces, have a small footprint and offer the classic + modern component I love adding into my home. In addition they're extremely versatile, they can hold librations, double as a coffee cart, hold dinnerware, transform into a serving cart and are great for parties. Bar carts also make the perfect cocktail station, for quests to pour their own drinks. I honestly think anyone with a small space, needs a bar cart! 

Now, that I have a pretty bar cart I love styling it for the Holidays and of course for everyday use. To style my bar cart, I like to anchor the center of my with fresh flowers. I flank the flowers with champagne & Pellegrino bottles a must staple of a bar cart style + cocktail mixing. I also like placing champagne coupe glasses within easy reach and adding a candle, plus limes and lemons in a bowl. 

On the bottom shelf of the bar cart is where I like keep our liquor, along with wine bottles and glassware. To keep the bottles organized, I use tray to hold the liquor. Below is my bar cart styled or the for the holidays: Thanksgiving, Winter & Christmas

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As you can see bar carts punch so much punch, and the styling possibilities are stylishly endless

Do you have a bar cart in your home? Any plans to add one? 


#LaunchDay

Hello Friends! Welcome to #LaunchDay. It looks a little different around here, right? Over the weekend I switched my blog from Blogger to SqaureSpace and couldn't be more happier and excited. I designed my new blog myself, so it's both thrilling and scary to share! I'm still working on getting everything linked properly, sure I could have waited a few more weeks until everything was perfect. However, its like getting a new pair of high heels, you just got to break them in vs. keeping them in the box for that "perfect night on the town." I totally prefer living life now and not waiting for the imaginary "perfect day." Over the course of the next week, my pages will be completed and all the links will be up and running yay! 

After blogging on Blogger platform for so many years, taking the jump to SqaureSpace was long over do. As a non HTML Code person, this was a perfect move for my blog and where I see everything headed. Once my SquareSpace training wheels are off so to speak, I'll write a blog post about the pros / cons along with tips about my experience with SS. So far I'm loving that my blog now has a landing page (the first page you arrive at) and the ability to add pages that can be seen in toolbar and or not seen. 

In addition to the 4 main projects around my house I plan on tackling (see here), I'm also launching a monthly newsletter. My newsletter will focus on sharing a design tip / recipes and a fun craft of DIY project, make sure you sign up on my sidebar so you don't miss out. Along with the newsletter, I'll be sharing a few #blogging tips on my blog this year and chatting & answering design questions and dilemmas on Periscope. Are you scratching your head about what Periscope is? I see it as YouTube + Instagram have a kid and its Periscope, basically you use your phone as a live streaming device and your followers are able to ask you questions about your topic, you can follow me over there @chiclittlehouse 

 As a said,. I'll be working on get all the tweaks & links up and running over the next week. Now for the scary party, what to do you think of the new Chic Little House blog?