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An organized at-home coffee station

Coffee bar styling: How to create your own at-home coffee station

Good coffee is a pleasure. Good friends are a treasure. 

When my husband and I bought our house, we knew that we wanted to fill it often with family and friends. We love having guests over, and we love to make everyone feel welcome.

And I can’t imagine anything more welcoming than a fresh pot of coffee or a mug full of hot tea.

So we decided to turn one corner of our dining room into the ultimate at-home coffee station.

An organized home coffee station bar

Err. . . make that a hot drink station. We also have tea, hot cider, and hot chocolate available for our (crazy) non-coffee drinking guests. 😉

Want to create an at-home coffee station in your own home? Here’s how to do it in 5 easy steps.

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1. Start with a cabinet

the perfect little cabinet for an organized coffee station

You can either buy a new cabinet, or repurpose a piece of furniture you already have, like a small table or dresser. Either way, you’ll use this space for the bulk of your coffee/tea items.

How to store coffee in an organized hot drink station

We bought this cabinet at Target, and we absolutely love it.

Inside the cabinet of my organized cozy fall coffee station

On the top shelf in the cabinet we store:

On the bottom shelf, we keep all of our tea.

Inside our organized coffee station cabinet

2. Choose your appliances

A beautiful organized hot drinks and coffee station

Time to pick out which machines you’ll actually be using to create your coffee or hot drinks. A lot of people have one, or maybe two that they use regularly. We actually use all three of ours on a weekly basis, so we made sure that there was enough room on top of the cabinet that we chose to house them all.

Coffee maker

We have a very simple coffee maker, and we use it every day. We set everything up the night before and hit the button to start brewing when we come downstairs in the morning.

This coffee maker is perfect for parties and the Bible studies we host at our house every other week. We make sure the pot is always full, and guests can easily pour themselves a cup whenever they want throughout the evening.

Espresso machine

When we have friends over for dinner, or when we have a little extra time on a weekend morning, we enjoy dabbling in the art of copying our favorite Starbucks drinks. Lattes are my husband’s speciality. Yum!

Keurig machine

We use our Keurig anytime we’re making a single serving of coffee. For example, if one of our guests requests a cup of decaf, or it’s just me having a caffeine craving in the middle of the afternoon.

Sometimes we use K-cups, but more often we’ll use this reusable K-cup and fill it with coffee that we grind ourselves.

Note: These links will take you to the updated versions of our coffee machines. Apparently we’re living in the past, and ours are no longer being made!

3. Hang your mugs

Mugs and storage in an organized coffee station

What would a coffee station be without all of your favorite coffee mugs? I absolutely LOVE our Fiesta java mugs, and couldn’t wait to hang them up where I would get to see them every day.

For our coffee station, we purchased and hung this shelf from Hobby Lobby. It comes with hooks that work perfectly for hanging our mugs.

How to organize mugs in a coffee station

4. Use baskets or bins to organize smaller items

An organized functional coffee and hot drinks station

The shelf that we bought came with 4 wire baskets. They’re perfect for gathering and neatly organizing a few of the smaller coffee accessories.

A beautifully organized coffee and tea station with hanging mugs

In these four baskets, we store:

  • Hot chocolate and spiced cider packets
  • Coffee filters
  • Small mason jars filled with flavored coffee grounds
  • Extra K-cups

5. Decorate!

An organized and cozy fall coffee and tea station with hanging mugs and wire metal baskets

This saying perfectly sums up how I felt about coffee. It’s a simple pleasure that makes my days just a little bit more enjoyable. But the REAL treasure is being able to share what we have with our friends.

Here are a few other little things we keep on hand to make our coffee experience extra-awesome:

  • Torani sauces: We have chocolate, white chocolate, pumpkin spice and caramel
  • Coffee syrups: We use these to make our specialty lattes. We keep them in a liquor dispenser, which works fairly well. In retrospect, I should probably have kept them upright because the dispensers tend to gum up quickly if you don’t clean them obsessively. But they look pretty, don’t they? 😉
An organized hanging coffee and tea station

So there you have it. If you’re planning to get all of your coffee and tea accessories organized in one place, just remember:

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