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How We Repurposed A Kitchen Desk as a Coffee Bar

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Create more storage space in your kitchen by repurposing your kitchen desk. Add a pretty curtain to store supplies underneath the desk.

Have you ever wished you could repurpose your kitchen desk? Maybe you've been looking for an cheap, easy way to make a coffee bar in your house?

coffee maker on kitchen desk

 

Today, I'm going to show you how we turned our kitchen desk into a coffee bar!

For a long time, I used our kitchen desk for work. But, it was a real eyesore because we have an open concept kitchen. If I didn't keep my desk area perfectly organized, it ended up making our whole first floor look really messy!

10 minutes of decluttering. Here's what the desk looked like before.

See? Not so neat and tidy looking. In fact, I ended up doing several posts about decluttering my kitchen desk area, but the decluttering never really stuck. It always got messy again! Eventually I moved my office area to another room, and that ended up working out a lot better.

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How to Set up a Coffee Bar in Your Kitchen Desk Space

Built in kitchen desk repurposed as a coffee bar. Organized coffee supplies.

To put the coffee bar together, I took all of my office stuff out, and completely emptied the cabinets and drawers. Then, I gathered all of our coffee and tea supplies, and put them into the cabinets.

Another Option: Add a Wine Bar to Your Built In Kitchen Desk Space

Wine and coffee bar set up in a built in kitchen desk area. A great alternative use for the kitchen desk space.

In our second cabinet, we put all of our “wine supplies.” We're much bigger coffee drinkers than wine drinkers, but over the years we've acquired quite a few wine glasses and accessories. So, now they have their own cabinet!

On the Coffee Bar Counter

On the countertop, I put a small hanging file box to store papers we need to access more frequently – like spelling lists, takeout menus, and invitations.

I picked up some glass canisters from IKEA a while back, so I used those to store our coffee (one for regular and one for decaf). The tray I used is something I found in the cheap section at Target.

 

Create more storage space in your kitchen by repurposing your kitchen desk. Add a pretty curtain to store supplies underneath the desk.

My favorite part of this whole project is how we ended up using the under-the-desk area.

I found some cute cafe curtains on Amazon, and put them up using a simple tension rod. Now, we store our crockpot and some other big kitchen items underneath the desk, but they're out of sight.

We also keep a few bottles of wine in this storage space so they're easy to grab when we have guests.

 

Coffee bar decorations! We repurposed our kitchen desk as a coffee bar, and put these fun coffee decor items on the countertop.

Finally, I put some flowers in a glass to bring a little color into the area! And, of course, we had to add in our letter board with a “motivational” quote for the family. This coffee bar area is right next to where we eat most of our meals, so it's nice to have a few fun touches added. 🙂

The Coffee and Wine Bar in our Kitchen Desk Area

We repurposed our kitchen desk as a coffee and wine bar. Now we have so much more storage space in our kitchen!

Here's a view of the whole coffee bar project with all of the cabinets and drawers closed. I think it looks much more neat and tidy than before when I was using the kitchen desk for work.

kitchen desk a coffee bar bright blue patterned curtains

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Free printable art for your coffee bar or wine bar. The best days start with coffee and end with wine.

But, after we were done with the whole project, I couldn't resist making a cute printable to display in the area.

The best days start with coffee and end with wine” – it perfectly summarizes our newly repurposed kitchen desk!

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2 Comments

  1. This is such a cute idea! I love it. My husband is a coffee fanatic and we have three different types of coffee makers sitting on our bar. It gets so disorganized and I hate it lol. I wish we had a desk in our kitchen. Your post was great! Thank you for sharing!

  2. How fun! I have a little coffee bar area myself and couldn’t imagine life without it!

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