Custom home bars and beverage centers
Las Vegas homes are made for entertaining, and a bar is often the piece that turns a house into the one everyone comes to. JB Custom Design builds bars, beverage centers and wine walls as custom cabinetry: lit for display, organised for use.
Projects range from a walnut bar wall built to show off a big bottle collection, to a second-floor TV-room bar at Lake Las Vegas, to a former double-sided fireplace turned into a glass wine wall.
What's included
Bar walls
Display shelving lit from behind or below, with base cabinets and roll-out trays for the bottles you don't display.
Beverage centers
Built-in beverage refrigerators and wine fridges, often as an extension of the kitchen into the dining area.
Wine walls
Glass-fronted wine display built into existing structure.
Dry bars and wet bars
A dry bar is cabinetry and appliances; a wet bar adds a sink, which brings plumbing into the plan.
How it works
- A 90-minute in-home meeting about style, budget and time frame.
- Creative visuals, materials and colours chosen together, timeline and budget set.
- A clear, itemized scope with material and labor broken out.
- The build, with trades and vendors properly vetted and clear communication throughout.
Wet bar or dry bar?
Adding a sink means new plumbing. In the City of Las Vegas, relocating plumbing or altering piping inside a wall needs a permit, and plumbing must be done by a licensed plumber or by the homeowner on their own home. A dry bar avoids that, so Judy talks through both during design.
Projects: home bars and beverage centers
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Home bars and beverage centers: questions homeowners ask
What's the difference between a wet bar and a dry bar?
A wet bar has a sink, so it needs a water supply and a drain. A dry bar has no sink: cabinetry, counter, display and often a beverage refrigerator. In the City of Las Vegas, new or relocated plumbing needs a permit and a licensed plumber or the homeowner doing their own work.
Can a beverage center be built into existing cabinets?
Often, yes. One Las Vegas project extended the kitchen into the dining area with a commercial glass-door beverage refrigerator, grey base cabinets, open shelves and a lit glass cabinet.
Can you turn an unused space into a bar?
Yes. A former double-sided fireplace became a glass-fronted wine wall, and a second-floor TV room at Lake Las Vegas got a bar with the client's Thermador moved upstairs.
How do you light a bar?
With lighting built into the cabinetry: backlit or LED-lit shelves, lit glass cabinets and an LED strip at the base. It's planned during design so the wiring is in the right place.
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Las Vegas, Henderson and the wider valley. See the areas served.
Start with a vision, a plan and a budget
Tell Judy about your home bars. The first step is a 90-minute meeting at your home about style, budget and time frame.
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