Save Money Styling Your At-Home Coffee Bar With Pinterest's Clever Solution

Coffee bars have become a must-have feature in everyone's kitchen. They're functional and a space saver since the setup consists of storing a coffee machine, mugs, syrups, and sugar in one area away from the rest of your counter space. You have everything you need in one place to make your morning coffee quick and easy. Most coffee bars are often set up in an empty corner of the kitchen, but some folks will spruce up a traditional bar cart and turn it into their own coffee or tea station. The only issue you might encounter is insufficient space to display your coffee grounds, stirring sticks, or sugar packets. However, Pinterest has an excellent solution to maximizing storage space on our coffee bars: using glass jars to hold all our coffee essentials.

Reusable glass jars are perfect for holding coffee beans, grounds, and espresso pods. Some coffee bars are built-in between cabinetry, so they sometimes have the opportunity to have their own cabinets or drawers to hold mugs, pods, and sugar. Further, using glass jars lets you easily notice when you need to refill them or buy more essentials to restock your bar. On the other hand, glass jars elevate the coffee bar's appearance, making it look chic and neat.

Before diving into styling your coffee bar with glass jars, deciding how many you'll need and what you'll use them for is vital. For those who enjoy simple luxuries with a basic cup of joe in the morning, you might only need two glass jars for your coffee grounds or pods and sugar. On the other hand, if you like being a barista at home, you'll want to consider buying four or five glass jars for your sugar, pods or grounds, stirrers, and treats like cookies or biscotti. If you enjoy tea occasionally, you can use two extra jars to hold tea bags and honey sticks.

Once you figure out how many jars you need, you can buy them from your local Dollar Tree, Target, Walmart, or thrift store. You can purchase traditional 32-ounce mason jars for a simple look at Walmart for $2.94 each, but they have writing on them. Amazon has a four-pack of a 12-ounce clear mason jar for $12.99. Target has a chic 64-ounce glass jar with a lid and a knob-style handle for $6 if you want something larger and more stylish. You can use the larger glass jar for any espresso pods or tea bags and smaller mason jars for sugar, stirrers, and your favorite treats. A budget-friendly way to save money is repurpose old glass jars you have at home or shop at your local thrift store.

Glass jars are exceptional for holding your coffee essentials, but they can look uninteresting when they only store espresso pods and sugar. Spruce up your jars by dressing them up to complement your coffee bar's theme. For instance, if you have a farmhouse-style kitchen interior and use wood elements around your coffee bar, elevate your glass jars by tying twine around the lids or wrapping plaid ribbon around the center. Using blackboard labels from Walmart allows you to label each jar for about $3 and gives it a rustic touch when you pair it with twine.

For those who prefer a clean, minimalist appearance, large, simple labels are perfect for slightly elevating the jar's look. Etsy sells waterproof labels for $1 that come in eight different categories for tea, coffee, decaf, tea, and other beverage labels, and you can choose to purchase them in a white or cream color. Of course, if you have your own label maker, you can design the labels you want to display on your jars or handwrite them with a permanent marker. When using various coffee pods, syrups, and sugars, labels are needed to help you restock your jars more easily. However, if you're a simple coffee person, the reusable glass jars will be enough to let you know what you're reaching for and what's running low.