Do you have a wet bar in your house?

Is that your actual one?

No, but it’s close R1.

What are the park 1980s?

Can we see your actual one OP.

I don't now, but I did in two prior houses.

It's very convenient, especially if it's on a second floor; access to hot and cold water, a sink, a refrigerator, coffee machine, cabinet drawers and storage, etc., all in one spot.

I suppose you could put a refrigerator in a bathroom and have a similar setup, though it wouldn't be quite the same as a dedicated wet bar.

We had one in our house-the house was built in the 70s. It was never used. It was in an odd place, in the dining room right next to the kitchen.

I think it makes sense if you have a big home, do a lot of entertaining and there is a lot of distance between the kitchen or dining room and living room. Otherwise it is a waste.

Only when I can't make it to the bathroom.

House was built in '88 and remodeled in 2020. We kept the wet bar, which is actually a full on bar, not just a sink area.

I have two bar carts, a Jacques Adnet and a Thonet. I'm fancy that way.

Wet bars = home intercoms = central vacuums = stovetop pot fillers = stupid

I am a boomer born and raised in Flyoverland USA.

It was customary for new home buyers to finish off the basement by making it a rec room/play room/party room/TV room. In doing so, you could keep the upstairs reasonably neat and clean because kids toys and other miscellaneous junk were downstairs, out of sight.

And all of these "rathskellers" had a wet-bar that your drunk ass friends and relatives could belly up to when they came over for family gatherings like birthday and graduation parties and holiday gatherings. Really high end ones even had a second kitchen.

R7 is WH Auden.

I don't have one and if I buoght a house that had one, it would be among the very first things to go -- unless maybe it was tucked away in a closet and not a prominent feature in an imortant room.

I had friends with a big 1959 Mid-Century Modern house that had three original wet bars which was fun as it fit the architecture and the owners who hosted loads of parties.

The concept that R5 describes is very useful for those with a big house: a small kitchen station of sorts at remote points from the real kitchen. The wet bar aspect is far less appealing than having a place to get cold drinks, coffee, tea, maybe keep some olives and cheese or snacks on hand. I like these 'kitchen in a cupboard' cabinets with a small sink and electrical outlets for refrigerator, microwave, plates, etc. -- they're great if you have a very vertical house where you often end up on the roof terrace or at some distance and many steps from the kitchen -- or if have a tiny apartment where you don't intend to do much proper cooking.

The pot filler behind the stove is great if you use the thing. I use mine and I find it to be a handy thing.

My childhood home which was built in the 1970s had one in the rec room, next to the fireplace.

My in-laws had one in their home and in their retirement home. It was nice to have because in a lot of homes the only other convenient place to set up a bar is in the kitchen which is probably also used to prepare food and bus dishes.

I had one in a den and I reversed it so that it was open to the primary suite (closed off the space in the den and opened up the wall that had been behind it). I used it as a coffee bar. It was great. There was enough space to use full depth kitchen cabinets and I was able to fit a dorm fridge completely inside one, so I didn’t have to spring for a counter depth fridge.

There was one four feet away from the kitchen. My mom had it made into a closet before we moved in

I always found them depressing. Like, I dont live in a regular tract home, I live in a cool tract home, check out my wet bar

I don't think I have ever seen one —except on TV.

I assume you'd have to be perpetually sozzled like Dean Martin to have one.

I grew up in a house built in the late '60s / early '70s. Popcorn ceiling. No wet bar. I'd rather just mix drinks in the kitchen.

I did have an efficiency / studio apartment that had a tall, narrow closet in the living area. There was an outlet in the closet. Someone told me the closet was for putting your stereo system in there. (I think the apartment was built in the '80s.)

They were a fixture in many 1970s-built suburban homes.

Beautiful one I saw in an old Zillow listing.

Just my opinion, R23, but I wouldn't call it beautiful.

This one is cool.

R5 Oh it’s not a bar? I thought a wet bar was a bar bar.

Meri from Sister Wives is that you?

The term "wet bar" implies incontinence to me.

Proper "wet bars" should have tiled floors.

R25, that is a nicer version of what I grew up with - remove the fireplace, replace the wood flooring with asbestos tile, and leave bad pop in the sink - Fresca, diet gingerale, and squirt.

Not only a wet bar, but a wet poussay.

OP here. No, you cannot see my actual wet bar because there are too many personal items in it that I don’t want on the internet.

And I have no idea where “park” came from as it was not close to any word I was typing. The only thing I can think of is that it was a word suggested by iOS and I didn’t catch it due to sleep deprivation.

I read this as do you have a wet BRA in your house. If that was the question, I would’ve answered in a way yes.

My friends bought an 80s house that looks like it has two big entryway closets, but when you open the doors to the second one, conveniently located right across from the living room, it's a very sleek wet bar. I grew up in an older suburb where everyone did the basement bar thing, usually with stools, but the upstairs ones seem pretty convenient.

Stool samples?

R33, R34 Here's a handy chart for reference.

Claude and Doris Upson, of the Upson Downs Upsons, display pride in their well-fitted outdoor wet bar, not the only one in their house, I'm sure.

In college the roommate built one, and the other roommates cat climbed up on it and took a poo. It was hilarious to us at the time.

How on earth could one install the plumbing for a wet bar in a dorm room one occupies for 2 semesters.

My grandparents bought a cottage in Sussex (Eng.) back in circa '69 and my grandmother turned an outhouse into a miniature English pub with a pub sign outside and a bar and little tables with stools etc. Beat that! I LOVED it. My mother said it was embarrassing.

[quote]OP here. No, you cannot see my actual wet bar because there are too many personal items in it that I don’t want on the internet.

I wonder what sort of "personal items" OP has in his wet bar.

Now that I read all these responses, I'm not sure what OP meant by a wet bar.

R13 and R26 and others...

What I was talking about was not a 'sit around and drink with your friends' bar, for lack of a better description. What we had in both houses was more like a very small kitchen without a stove.

The picture below is what we had, if you swap the cabinet on the left for a small under-counter refrigerator. (In the picture it it may, in fact, be the fridge with a cabinet face frame.)

In one house it was upstairs in a 'bonus room' (multiuse room or spare room, often above a garage), and in the other house it was in an alcove in the master bedroom. (The Primary Bedroom nowadays, I've learned on HGTV.)

A "wet bar" means there is a sink and running water.

It can be

A) a station - where one mixes drinks but does not sit

B) a home bar - with stools and a counter etc etc.

Not every home bar is a wet bar.

Not every mixing station is a wet bar. Ice buckets!

People who drink every day might find a wet bar a convenience instead of teetering all the way to their kitchens.

When having a party with many people invited, serious hosts usually hire a professional bartender who sets up in a convenient place inside or even outside the house instead of standing near the wet bar to serve guests.

My opinion -- waste of space and money.

R41, I meant a bar with a working sink.

I don’t want a wet bar, but I’d like to expand the beer fridge and cabinet try/countertops in the basement into a kitchenette with a sink and maybe a small oven.

R5/R41: Your illustration is brilliant. Not a big boozy drinks front and center sort of wet bar in the 1950s-1970s sense, the kind you would always find in the houses featured in 'Colombo', for instance. I don't understand why more houses don't incorporate something like you've shown, in a corridor within a principal bedroom, adjacent a extra living room type space at the top or bottom of a house, in a guest house, etc.

It's a space easy enough to tuck away somewhere and more attractive and less wasteful than having a small secondary kitchen stuck away in some corner of a house. For a house of any size or verticality, it's a great way to have coffee and cold drinks without going all the way to the kitchen and back and then again with the empty glass or cup.

In the old OLD days, you didn't need cold, nor running water. If if was just a visitor not a party, you had some liquor in your office, drawing room or living room. Water in a carafe, and a seltzer spritzer. You could make a scotch and soda, or wet the glass for scotch and water, for example. Or just serve your brandy, port, cognac, scotch or bourbon neat and room temperature.

As mentioned above, at a party you'd have help to mix and serve cocktails.

[quote] How on earth could one install the plumbing for a wet bar in a dorm room one occupies for 2 semesters.

Mary!

I've seen some awful vulgarians on the HR shows demand that they have a 'Tiki Bar'.

My Klassy-est memory of a wet bar - we visited my mother’s ill friend, Mrs. Cooke. She looked sunburned, bald, and bloated from cancer treatment. She gave us a grand tour of her bedroom.

A closet was converted with a railcar chrome sink hanging in the back and galley cabinets on each wall. Bed tables were paneled mini refrigerators. When we left, my mother muttered, “I didn’t know they drank THAT much.”

I like how in old movies someone could walk into their living room or office to make a drink and their ice bucket would always be full despite us never seeing who must have filled it. I can imagine a Joan Crawford expecting her bucket to be full of fresh ice all day and night should she want to make a drink spontaneously.