For plenty of people, breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day — coffee is. Okay, okay, coffee is, of course, a beverage, but it is derived from beans, and some folks can’t so much as pour a bowl of cereal before that first sip of the buzzy stuff. So, poetic license aside, it’s nice when your coffee and all of its accoutrements can be stored in one place. And if you’ve got a little-used kitchen hutch, you can fashion it into a sweet little coffee bar with minimal effort and technically zero expense.
You can update that old kitchen hutch to make it more useful for all your morning coffee needs by literally just moving all those grounds, cups, spoons, and sweeteners out from their drawer and cabinet confinements right on over for peak efficiency that might even save you a few minutes in the morning. Or you can make it a little lovelier with some surprising inspiration.
Building a better kitchen hutch coffee bar
One of the most bittersweet parts of a hotel stay is the little in-room coffee station. On the one hand, the caffeine delivery system is right there for easy access, with everything grouped together for maximum convenience. On the other hand, it’s rarely delicious. But you can apply the same principle — simply dedicating the DIY café space — to your superior products. Even more than a proper café, which has room for sprawl, tidy hotel room coffee is the vibe you want to approximate.
First, you’ll obviously need your coffee making device, whether it’s something manual like a Chemex, or one of the best drip coffee makers. This is your kitchen hutch coffee bar’s centerpiece. The next most important part is — you guessed it! — the coffee. Being that it’s a mistake to store coffee beans in the bag they came in, you can remove them to a prettier container that you already have around the house, preferably one that’ll keep the light out. The same goes for ground coffee. A cute little sugar bowl also makes sense, if you use the stuff, as well as any other flavor enhancers like syrups or cinnamon. A darling matched set of cups and saucers sweetens the deal, but even your old novelty mugs can be cute if they’re neatly presented. The whole arrangement will get you from bed to sip with style, and in practically no time.
