8 Creative Ways to Design a Bar for Your Next Event

Hi, Event Designers and Planners! Let’s talk about creative ways to style our New York Bar for your next event.

The bar area is a statement piece for your event space. Guests naturally gather around the bar to grab drinks, meet one another, and take photos throughout the celebration. That makes your bar more than a functional station—it can become a major part of the overall event design.

Our New York Bars provide a blank canvas that you can customize, decorate, and combine with other event elements to create a completely unique look. From bold colors and luxurious fabrics to decals, draping, and custom details, there are countless ways to transform your bar.

Here are eight creative ways to design our New York Bar.

1. Create a Whimsical Pink Clock Bar

Think beyond a traditional bar and turn it into a statement piece.

For Paris Hilton’s daughter’s birthday celebration, we created a pink Alice in Wonderland-inspired bar for a whimsical tea party. The pink bar featured a custom decal and decorative clock props that brought the theme to life. One of the most unique details was that the clocks were fully functional, with each one displaying the real time and synchronized perfectly with the others.

The bar created an eye-catching focal point as guests entered the event and quickly became one of the most photographed elements throughout the celebration.

With custom bars, you can turn a functional part of the event into an immersive design feature that complements the entire theme.

2. Add Luxurious Velvet Fabric

Velvet instantly adds texture, depth, and an elevated feel to an event design.

We combined 3 of our 12 foot bars to create a long bar design, with custom velvet channeled fronts. Designers can coordinate the bar fabric to combine with the fabrics used throughout the event, including draping, lounge furniture, and decorative accents.

Matching textures across the venue creates a cohesive design and helps the bar feel like an intentional part of the overall event rather than a separate service area.

3. Go Bold With High-Gloss Color

A bold color can completely transform a New York Bar. For a garden wedding, we created a custom green bar with matching barbacks. We added custom frames to the front and sides of the New York Bar, then finished the structure in a high-gloss green.

To complete the look, we paired the bar with matching Tiffany panels and created a one-of-a-kind barback with built-in niches and LED lighting, which is a perfect pair to match when designing your next event. 

4. Create an Italian Tile-Inspired Look

Tile can bring an architectural and sophisticated feel to your event bar.

Use decorative tile-inspired patterns, bold colors, or textured finishes to create a look that feels inspired by an Italian villa, Mediterranean garden, or European café. Pair the custom decal tile patterns with complementary bar tops, florals, and lighting to build a cohesive environment.

5. Use Gray Velvet for a Sophisticated Finish

Our New York Bar also comes in curved configurations, giving designers another way to create visual interest in the room.

A curved bar can create a softer silhouette while providing plenty of opportunities for customization and color. Our 11-foot bar can also transform into a 360-degree bar by combining two curved pieces on each end with two standard New York Bars in the middle. This configuration creates a large centerpiece that allows guests to approach the bar from multiple directions.

6. Add a Custom Decal

What better way to personalize your event bar than with your own logo, monogram, or event artwork? You can add a custom decal to the bar to showcase your brand or reinforce the event theme. A branded bar works especially well for corporate events, product launches, weddings, birthdays, and other celebrations where personalization matters.

7. Add Elegant Fabric Draping

Fabric draping remains one of our most popular event design requests—and there’s no reason to stop at the walls or ceiling. Adding draping to a bar creates a soft, elegant appearance and can help the bar blend seamlessly into the surrounding décor. Choose a fabric that complements your draping, lounge furniture, or other decorative elements for a coordinated look.

Draped custom bars can work beautifully for weddings, galas, luxury celebrations, and events that call for a romantic or sophisticated atmosphere.

8. Build a Statement With Lattice Frame Fronts

Wood frame fronts can give a bar architectural character while adding texture to the overall design.

For these custom lavender Parisian bars, we combined high-gloss bar tops with trellis-style fronts. The lavender finish creates a soft, sophisticated look, while the trellis detailing adds a decorative element that makes the bars stand out.

Make Your New York Bar Part of the Design

Your bar doesn’t have to look like a standard service station. With the right colors, fabrics, finishes, decals, and architectural details, you can turn it into one of the most memorable design elements at your event.

Whether you want a whimsical pink statement piece, a luxurious velvet finish, a bold high-gloss color, or an elegant draped look, our New York Bar gives event designers the flexibility to create something that feels completely unique.

The possibilities are endless when you start with a blank canvas and design it around your event.

Bar #1

The Team |
Planning & Design: Martina Striesky, White Bow Events
Production & Set Design: Daydream Studio LA
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Floral Lab LA
Photography: Kevin Ostaj

Bar #2

The Team |
Planning & Design: Ked & Co.
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Sienna Floral
Photography: Olivia Rae James Wed

Bar #3

The Team |
Planning & Design: Lisa Gorjestani, Deplauren
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Celios Design
Photography: Heather Kincaid Photo

Bar #4

The Team |
Planning: Rikki and Mal
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Mark’s Garden
Photography: Callaway Gable

Bar #5

The Team |
Planning: LA Party Stylists
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals & Buildouts: Enso Creative Team
Photography: Anna Anikina Photography

Bar #6

The Team |
Planning: LA Party Stylists
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Enso Creative

Bar #7

The Team |
Planning: Events by Martina
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Daydream Studio LA
Photography: Scott Clark Photo

Bar #8

The Team |
Planning & Design: Michel B Events
Custom Bar: Revelry Event Design
Florals: Butterfly Floral
Photography: Laura Gordo

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