_One for the road: Properties with home bars
One for the road: Properties with home bars
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All-day happy hours and Martinis on tap - at home drinking is the new night out. We look at properties with home bars currently on the market with Knight Frank.
Home bars have long been considered must-haves in any luxury property that's been set up with entertaining in mind. A relatively modest space or 'dead corner' can be turned into a bespoke bar where collectors can display their finest spirits and keen mixologists can try their hand at muddling their own home made concoctions.
Although the concept is certainly not new - home bars have been a stylish feature of luxury homes for decades. Imaginative design, modern technologies and extravagant materials are shirking off the image of an outdated fad, inspiring property owners to create unique spaces where they can prop up the bar and enjoy a bottle of their favourite tipple.
We raise our glasses to these breathtaking properties with home bars ranging from fabulous art deco inspired speakeasies to bars rivalling top hotel drinking establishments.
The Sports Bar
Above: Six bedroom house for sale in Wandsworth, London, SW18, available through Knight Frank
A fabulous six-bedroom Wandsworth family home with an entire basement dedicated to the art of everyone's favourite pastimes - entertaining and lounging. In keeping with the bright and contemporary interior design, this home bar - clearly conceived by a sport's enthusiast with a penchant for fun - wouldn't look out of place in your local sports bar.
Up your popularity stakes and invite friends around for a game of table tennis, Fussball or a movie. Who would say no to some corndogs and and a few cold ones?
The luxury hotel bar
Above: Six/seven bedroom house for sale in Roehampton London, SW15. Available through Knight Frank
Owners of this newly built detached six/seven bedroom house have gone for crisp interiors kitted out in shades of muted creams, browns and dark greys to create the understated vibe of an luxury boutique hotel.
Moments from Richmond Park, this impressive family home comes with a fully equipped cinema room, large informal reception room including bar area, swimming pool, leisure and gym areas but since it's all about the home bar, pull up a pew, pour yourself a large whisky tonic and kick back.
This bar has been crafted in a muted colour palette, with natural materials, fine metals and state of the art lighting to display vintage bottles of wine or rare spirits. Oenophiles will give a nod of appreciation to the touch temperature wine cooler.
A contemporary home bar to rival that of five-star hotel, entertain in style without the fuss of hosting a dinner party.
The New York Rooftop Bar
Above: Four bedroom flat for rent in Riverside One, London, SW11. Available through Knight Frank
Whether you're on or off the wagon, picture yourself, for a moment, enjoying a cocktail while looking out over the river Thames. This four-bedroom Battersea riverside apartment in Norman Foster designed Riverside One, has been interior-designed to a high specification with floor to ceiling windows providing a jaw-dropping, west-to-east river cinemascope.
Merged from two apartments, vast lateral living has allowed the current owners to create a visually stunning bar not dissimilar to the high- end drinking establishments found on NYC rooftops or in skyscrapers in the City.
At the sharp edge of cool and contemporary, this home bar features an integrated fish tank and on-trend pendant lighting to create a pretty unique drinking space.
And it's all yours to raise a glass to if you rent this unique London home.
The 70's cocktail lounge
Above: Four bedroom house for sale in Primrose Hill, London, NW1. Available through Knight Frank
It's permanently cocktail o'clock at this property. A rare opportunity to purchase an iconic, pastel pink period family home in the heart of Primrose Hill.
Formerly known as the 'Rocking Horse House' it features some of the grandest rooms we've seen - all decorated in the spirit of eclecticism by the current politically-influential owners who quite clearly have a penchant for fun and flair for entertainment.
Key features include a gym, cinema room, huge in-eat kitchen and landscaped gardens. Invite friends, don your finest glad rags and head down to the basement to enjoy a private disco; entirely clad in vivid reds, this space screams 'party' and what better way to get it started than by spinning some records and liberally pouring some Pina Coladas.
The art deco bar
Above: Six bedroom house for sale in Radlett, Hertfordshire, WD7
Wildly more glamorous than your dank 1920's moonshine-swigging speakeasy, the art deco inspiration behind the design of this home bar comes from around the same era.
Heavily influenced by art nouveau and early Hollywood glamour, rich fabrics, opulent materials, subdued lighting and mirrors were key design elements translated into high end drinking establishment interior across the globe.
Almost as impressive as the stunning art deco style sweeping staircase, this home bar forms part of the reception/entertaining room of this spectacular six bedroom family house with swimming pool in the popular Hertfordshire village of Radlett.
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