The Bar Table

More Than Just Bar Furniture

If you have already installed a dry or wet bar, you may want to consider a Bar Table as the next piece of furniture in your home bar. Sometimes called a Tavern Table, this fairly large and sturdy piece of bar furniture serves several purposes.

A tavern table is normally larger than a pub table, which is usually enough for only two or three people to sit at. The bar table can accomodate anywhere from four to as many people as the table is long. This style of table is very common in British and Irish pubs, where friends and bar "regulars" can meet and gather around for drinks and talk.

You can have the same nice bar furniture in your home bar as well. Whether you buy or build your table, it will surely be the main gathering place of your home bar, except for possibly the bar itself. Besides the regular bar activities that will go on at this table, you can use it to eat at or maybe watch TV from as well.

If you have a few basic woodworking skills and a few woodworking tools, here's some free bar table building plans in Adobe pdf form for easy download. Download the latest free version of the Adobe PDF Reader if you need it.

To build the bar itself, here's a great resource for Bar Plans for several bar styles and bar designs. Really some good woodworking plans to build a great home bar. And there are lots of examples in the members' gallery of real people building real home bars.

This wood table is built in a trestle style, which is very solid and will last for many years. Build this table and you will have piece of furniture that will last forever in you home bar. It seats up to six, which is a good size for many home bars.

If you have the space, make sure and get one of these bar or tavern tables. You can match it to the bar design or bar theme you currently have or are in the process of designing. It will be a feature of your home bar that will be with you forever. And it will be a feature that gets a lot of good use.