• Learn More About Barware

    Your bar may be in an elegant room in the house for dinner parties, or it may be a bar cart tucked into a corner of your living room. From engraved champagne glasses to personalized wall-mounted beer bottle openers, the artisans on Etsy have equipment and accessories to set up your home bar with everything you need to serve drinks in style.


    Whether you want a bar for personal use or for socializing with others, your home bar doesn’t have to take up a lot of space. Even a smaller home bar can be fully equipped with unique and interesting items from the shops on Etsy.

    Stock your bar with essential items to create and enjoy delicious drinks, whether you’re sipping an evening glass of wine or hosting friends for happy hour. These must-haves from the shops on Etsy are great places to start in equipping your home bar:


    • Storage: Keep your home bar organized with either a standing or wall-mounted wine rack. If you’re short on storage space, look for a wood wine rack with slots to hang stemmed glasses.
    • Glassware: Martini and cocktail glasses are musts for mixed drinks, and it’s a great idea to keep a selection of champagne flutes and wine glasses on hand for making toasts. Depending on your beverage of choice, you may want to include a few scotch tumblers, shot glasses, or snifters handy, too. When you serve beer, steins are great for more festive times.
    • Charms: In a field of identical glasses among guests, a wine charm on each stemmed glass lets everyone identify which beverage is theirs.
    • Stoppers: As the party winds down, you’ll want a few bottle stoppers to reseal any partially finished bottles.
    • Ice buckets: Keeping an ice bucket behind the bar lets you keep ice at the ready without having to make constant trips to the freezer.

    Accessories and decor are important to maintaining the ambiance you want for your home bar area. These options can liven up your space and help your get-togethers go more smoothly:


    • Stowable bars: If you don’t have a full bar in your living space, you can still be party-ready with the help of a portable bar or bar cart. Stock it with essentials, pull it out for party time, then tuck it away at the end of the night.
    • Flasks: Although liquor flasks aren't likely containers you'd use to serve guests, keeping a couple on the drink shelf—bookending the bottles of spirits on the top shelf—can add a bit of decorative charm to the space.
    • Shakers: When you have a guest who prefers their drink shaken, not stirred, pull out the cocktail shaker and show off any bartending skills you might have.
    • Decanters: A clear, monogrammed decanter is a simple yet elegant way to display your favorite liquor.