Six problems home bars face in India, after it’s ready.

Barzzoni Home Bar in Sync Series 1 of 4.

You are designing your long due passion. The personal home bar where you will be spending many evenings hosting friends, family, and even clients and associates.

If done well, you can expect great impressions that can easily turn into both fame and fortune. Your passion project is also a double-edged sword. It tells the world your values, standards, and expectations from you. You might want to place a little more back, in designing and equipping your new bar.

Let your clientele, your friends see your research in specialization in anything you take on, and how you do your things. Let people experience in person, your way of life. And here we are, your little secret on how to equip the perfect luxury home bar, that makes that first and last impression.

The Problem with Home Bars

Most of us, realize the problems of the home bar once it’s made and done. One cannot do anything after that. The money is spent, design is finished, fixtures are in place and your time has to be utilized in more important areas. We have to learn how to use the bar and make do each time there is a gathering.

These issues will be pointed out each time, and you need to rehearse the answers for the problem.

1. A messy bar at the party, while clean when nothing is happening.
   Most home bars become disorganized quickly, with all bar ingredients strewn over the counter from soiled to clean glasses, bottles, mixes, garnishes, plates and coasters; There are spills to clean. It doesn’t all depend on you, there are people who will try a drink and glasses will break; The cleanup follows.
   Catch-22: If you use less function, the bar becomes a wasted large furniture that is slow and still messy. If you add a sink, it looks messy if you don’t it becomes messy. 
2. Ill-fitted fixtures and equipment that becomes old, creaky handles, that stands out like a sore visual.
   Reality is, it’s not your main area of expertise to find different bar products that blend together. You probably selected different brands based on prices and sizes. Only when they came to your bar together, they became ill fitting, different in color, handle, shapes, heights. Individually they looked fine, together they have turned the beautiful bar into Frankenstein. You know, the cut and paste job.
3. You wanted a personal residential space, now it’s loud like a commercial takeaway cafe.
   When you ordered your bar equipment, it was silent in the catalog. Maybe you saw it in a showroom where the ambient decibel was high. You didn’t notice. At your place between your breathing, the carpeted flooring, secluded space, and your silent no-noise air conditioning system, your bar equipment suddenly offers the highest decibel standing out. The compressor’s vibration is echoing across the walls and telling everyone, there’s the bar. If it’s a client meeting, this is no longer a place where you want to sit without switching off your fridge.
4. Equipment function you hoped for that is not meeting the expectations.
   The ice bin was not insulated, so the ice is melting quickly into water leaving ice wet and small. The beers are still not chilled enough, because you switched off the AC, and room was warm. The fridge couldn’t deliver the cooling in hotter ambient. Glasses have a strange odor, because they have been kept turned down, the air inside has gone stale making the taste of your malts old and beers old, and cocktails smell weird.
5. The Wines are strangely found flat and dull.
   The wine cooler you brought have kept the bottles chilled, yet the champagnes are coming out flat. The carbonation is lost. The red wines served seem to have some particles floating in glass, and the guest is confused if its dirt. (No, they are sediments that have moved instead of settling). The wines also taste sour as if something is wrong.
6. The Bar Cabinet you built is conflicting with the equipment, it’s a mismatch.
   This leads to a host of structural and functional problems. From misalignment, mis-fittingly odd, to damaging your furniture; damage the equipment that cost time, money and disappointment; to keep both you need to redesign with additional costs. And it can never be the same.

Did you know that most luxury hotels and fine restaurants hire a facility consultant?

There isn’t one but more ways that a home bar experience can turn around from expected.

How to pre-fix the unplanned home bar problems.

Using a person of expertise in planning the type of bar you appreciate.

1. Let a professional help you in designing your home bar by providing all the aspects your bar can have.
2. Use tried and tested product lines for the home bar that match together. Let the professional design a bar and fit the products for in-counter, undercounter, backbar and discuss its finishes and hardware to blend with your interiors.
3. Take the information of cabinet design from the professional to best have your bar come out that is functionally and aesthetically a match.

The professional should also know “bar operations”.

Whether your space is commercial or residential, it will host gatherings of guests. When there are more than ten people, and in many cases an average of twenty guests, the bar needs a professional approach while having a residential design.

There are ergonomics of bar operations and leading companies such as Glastender Inc, a US based world brand has a process aligned called the Cocktail lifecycle. It allocates the steps of all activities, the features you need, where its required. So that your bar service is smooth as expected.

Anyone who has made a home bar before knows they have faced one or more of the six problems. Barzzoni known for its professional bar planning trained under Glastender, Inc. assists both professional and home bar owners in a problem free installation.

First of the Four Part Series

This is the first of the four-part series of Barzzoni Home Bar in Sync, the other three,

1. The Ultimate List of Equipping your Home Bar in 2025
2. The Home Bar and Interior Design Synergy
3. Success in Storing, Aging and Enjoying Wines without disappointment.