Guide to Choosing a Home Bar

When it comes to choosing a bar, you should first decide what type of bar you want. Then you’ll need to decide on the size you want and where you’ll be putting it. Once you’ve got a good idea of the style, size, and placement you desire, look for a home bar that fits your preferences and matches your interior decor.

Types of Home Bars

1: Hide-a-Bar

A hide-a-bar’s design allows you to store your alcohol discreetly—from the front, it just looks like a regular cabinet. One of our favorite hide-a-bars is our Leather Bar. This small but decorative bar is perfect for a room where you want to maximize your space. It can be placed in a corner or by a doorway so you can serve guests as they walk in. 

2: Cabinet Bar

This more elaborate choice is well worth it if you love to entertain. Cabinet bars are big, beautifully decorated, and always make a statement. A cabinet bar works best for a large room, perhaps a basement or an open-concept living room. There are plenty of shelves and cabinets to store all your favorite liquors and mixers. Our Spyrow Bar even has outlets, so that you can bring out the blender to make frozen drinks or crushed ice, for those on the rocks requests.

3: Wrap-Around Bar 

A wrap-around bar is one of the most common types of bars. Its L-shape design makes it a perfect centerpiece for the room of your choice. The wrap-around bar is the middle ground between the hide-a-bar and cabinet bar. Wrap-around bars have wine racks, cabinets, and often space for a beer or wine fridge.

Benefits of a Home Bar

1: Save Money on Drinks

Going out to bars gets expensive, especially when you’re celebrating a promotion or a friend’s birthday. Between drink prices and giving that generous tip, you can spend a lot of money in a short amount of time. A home bar allows you to save money while personalizing the drinks menu.

2: Create Tailored Drinks

Want a little more tequila in your tequila sunrise? Think of your favorite drink and its ingredients—how would you tweak it if you made it yourself? With a home bar, you can add that extra special ingredient and experiment with new combinations. A home bar provides you with the freedom to make your favorite drinks and find new ones to share with your friends. 

3: Entertain Your Guests

One of the most popular reasons to get a home bar is to entertain company. Home bars appeared in the 1940s and spiked in popularity in the 1950s. Home bars are great for parties—your guests will have a place to talk while enjoying their favorite drinks in the comfort of your home. Plus, you’ll be able to hone your bartender skills and impress your friends. 

Custom Home Bars in Jerome, Arizona

Home bars are meant to be unique, personal, and tailored to your tastes. At Western Heritage Furniture in Jerome, Arizona, we specialize in custom-made furniture. If you are looking for a specific finish or want extra shelves, our friendly staff and craftsmen will be happy to help. To start crafting your home bar, send us a message contact or call 800-616-1424.

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Why Should You Choose Bench Made Furniture?

When you buy bench made furniture, you’re not only buying the highest quality furniture, your purchase also helps craftsmen excel in their careers so they can continue making original, unique pieces. At Western Heritage Furniture, we appreciate our craftsmen, and when they create a piece of furniture, they own the design. 

There’s simply something special about handcrafted furniture, starting with knowing that one person made it especially for you. And when your friends ask where you got your custom piece, you can tell them it’s one of a kind!

When you place a custom order, our craftsmen follow your instructions and then enhance the piece with their skills and years of experience. They take personalization to a whole new level. Whether you want to add a specific finish to your furniture, or need it to be a certain height, we can make it according to your specifications. 

The detail on our Gathering Height Table (chairs included) demonstrates the skills and years of experience our craftsmen have, as well as their unmatched care and attention to detail. The spiral-like design with varying shapes is an excellent example of how versatile bench made furniture can be.

Bench Made Furniture vs. Production Line Furniture 

Furniture made on production lines takes a lot of people, which can be great—we always support teamwork. But when numerous people are working on different parts of the same piece, there is a higher chance of miscommunications along the way. 

Production lines are under strict time restrictions. Because they are working to meet a deadline, a production line may prioritize quantity over quality. When mass manufacturing is the priority, you’re not only compromising the quality, you’re also sacrificing originality.

When one craftsman finishes a piece of furniture, they have full control and can take their time. We like to think of the creation process of hand-crafting furniture as similar to creating a work of art. Just like any artist, our craftsmen begin each piece with a unique vision. This makes our furniture 100% genuine—a great amount of thought and effort go into every piece we create. Because we make each piece to order, we can prioritize quality and protect the environment by avoiding mass production and creating less waste. 

Bench Made Furniture in Arizona

Bench made furniture is environmentally friendly, and you can select almost every detail of your custom furniture. At Western Heritage Furniture, all of our pieces are bench made by skilled craftsmen, from materials with a history that goes back hundreds of years. Talk about one of a kind! 

Located in Jerome, Arizona, we serve many of the surrounding cities in the area, including Sedona and Phoenix. If you’d like more information on any of our products or would like to order a custom piece of bench made furniture, contact us at 800-616-1424 or send us a message today.

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What is reclaimed wood?

Reclaimed wood is lumber sourced from barns and old buildings that is then reused for other purposes such as furniture. The majority of reclaimed lumber originally came from old-growth forests. During the 1800s, American forests had large quantities of strong trees at record-breaking heights. Builders harvested them for many different types of structures that now lie abandoned and derelict. Today, the remains of these wooden buildings can be reclaimed to make furniture.

In our previous post, we talked about Ghostwood. We coined the term “Ghostwood” in the late nineties as a nod to the fact that our shop is in Jerome Arizona which is one of the more famous Ghost Towns in the west. In its heyday, Jerome was the World’s leading copper producer and had a population of over 15,000 people. By the mid-fifties, the mines were all but shut down and the population had almost entirely evacuated leaving behind a handful of hardy souls who scraped by in any manner they could.  In the late sixties and seventies, groups of young “hippies” had found Jerome which was an ideal spot to unplug from the World. The old Jeromans and the new hippies slowly revitalized the dying town into a tourist destination that is now World renowned.

Why do we use it?

Reclaimed wood is a sustainable, environmentally friendly option that has years of history behind it. At Western Heritage Furniture, we strive to preserve our natural resources. By making use of historical lumber, we eliminate the need to cut down additional trees. 

Compared to freshly cut wood, reclaimed wood is sturdier and often has a higher quality. Old-growth trees develop heartwood, which makes their lumber harder and more resistant to rotting. 

Reclaimed wood also makes great furniture because of its unique textures and colors. Lumber reclaimed from old barns and buildings that are 100 to 200 years old has marks and cracks that give it more personality and character. You can feel the experiences that the wood has been through in its grooves and talk about its history with your guests.

Reclaimed Wood Furniture in Arizona

When you buy reclaimed wood furniture from Western Heritage Furniture, you know that you’re getting a sustainable product that honors our country’s history. We grade and sort each piece of wood we use to ensure it meets our highest standards, is structurally sound and durable. We believe that the process of turning reclaimed wood into furniture is an art—our handcrafted furniture is bench made, which means that each piece is made by one craftsman. 

While this method may take longer than a production line, our furniture has the added value of craftsmanship and sustainability, with a story behind each piece. If you have questions about our reclaimed lumber, our friendly staff would love to share more information and help you select your next piece of furniture. Contact us at 800-616-1424 or send us a message today.

Photo by Cristina Gottardi

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