Cocktails Anyone?

I'd like to share my Cocktail Cabinet with you. 

Lets open it up...

We bought this cabinet when my first child was very small. Originally it was intended as a TV cabinet. It's very large, and the TV was high enough so little fingers wouldn't be tempted to explore. It has four large drawers, big enough for all our Cd's and movies. Well times changed and so did our furniture, and this was emptied and moved to our great room. It was ignored for awhile, until I got the brilliant idea to turn it into a bar for my husband for father's day. 

The first thing I did, was to by a cheap $5 roll of wall paper from the sale bin at the local Fred Meyer. The inside was painted black and needed lightening up. (I like that it says Rose-buds as that's one of my nick names.) I then carefully measured and ordered a mirror for the back and two 1/2" thick glass shelves from my local glass shop. (Measure carefully, and then remeasure twice after that.) I drilled a hole in the top for a power cord and then one through the back of the cabinet. This is for the blender. 

You can buy rolls of cork that are fairly inexpensive, so I corked the top. I figured this would be a non skid surface and look cool. 

I bought a halogen light for the inside top of the cabinet, and ran the power cord through the roof and down the backside of the cabinet. There's a switch on the cord to turn it on and off. It sounds impressive, but it was really quite easy.

It lights it all up beautifully!

It's has been so fun filling it up with accessories. 

This is a leather flask holder handmade and tooled by my grandfather David Seyler. It holds an old bottle of Bourbon from 1944 and is some of the smoothest I've ever tasted. 

The large thimble reads "Only A Thimble Full". (a gift from my Grandmother who was a quilter)

The top drawer holds the essentials.

The next drawer holds soda cans. 

And somethings don't change, because the bottom two drawers still hold hundreds of Cd's. 

The whole thing then closes up, waiting for the next time a cocktail is needed. 

Cocktails anyone?