A breakfast bar is either a full kitchen island or a countertop overhang with a height that has enough room for the legs and a size that can accommodate ample room for meals.
Kitchen cabinets building a breakfast bar.
A standard bar height is 42 inches.
The lack of base cabinets gives the room a feeling of flow.
Diy breakfast bar cabinet.
As you can see in this photo i have access to the first half of the shelves in my breakfast bar from the front.
Now if you re building a breakfast bar off of an island or out from a blank side of your lower cabinets things can get a little complex.
The shelves run all the way to the wall but i could never put anything back there without having to take everything back out to get to whatever was back there.
Easy diy breakfast bar cabinet.
The easiest thing to do would be to find one or two matching cabinets and use those for the base of the bar.
If they are shorter you could consider having a shorter bar or custom building bar height cabinets if you have your heart set on making a bar out of kitchen cabinets.