February 2nd, 2001

Bar Airtights

Make A Drinks Hub For Your Home This Christmas

Create a Drinks Hub for Your Home this Christmas

Before the Christmas season is in full swing and you’re in over your head with friends and also relations unexpectedly dropping by your house, please take time to read over these ideas for a more peaceful and organized yuletide.

Dinner or after dinner events at ones’ home is a thing few individuals can avoid. In Truth custom dictates people make their rounds of best friends and relations houses during the holidays; this is why it is most sensible to make or assemble help hubs in ones house. One of the most necessary help hubs this time of the year will be the mini bar hub. Purchasing a real bar can be very costly so making a alternative bar will do just fine. Any waist high shelf like a china cupboard can be used to function as a working bar. Store wineglasses and champagne flutes in it, if your guests are the casual kind then tumblers will do nicely.

Don’t forget to also include a few trays for serving, an ice bucket, tongs and cocktail napkins. Having all these things positioned in one location cuts the time you would waste looking for them if you have impromptu visitors. It also lessens the host’s tension level which is perfect since he or she still has to entertain said guests.

You can also add a little ambiance to the place by putting candles and lighting them in selected areas, you can perhaps also keep the matches in your mini bar.  One More item for your mini bar so that music is readily accessible are Christmas CDs Having an iPod and a docking station in the common area where you would be serving drinks is an even better idea.

If drinks are not appropriate for when a friend visits maybe coffee would be advisable. You can also prepare a coffee hub in your home. In truth possibly due to the many parties and late nights your peers will be going to, a coffee center would be preferable.  Our Cuisinart coffee maker is generally kept in a non-glamorous corner of the kitchen, this season polish it up and get it ready for center stage. You may setup your coffee spot in the kitchen or the dining room. Even before the guests settle down start brewing the coffee as its aroma is guaranteed to calm them down. Your coffee spot should have good quality ground coffee beans in a dry, airtight jar. In the immediate area also ready table napkins, cups, saucers, and cutlery. A set of milk and sugar containers must also be added. Finally but not the least set aside two small airtight jars with biscotti or cookies next to your coffee spot. These are fabulous coffee partners and they have a longer shelf life than cake. If you want some good suggestions for Christmas finger food to go with the refreshments, look online and you will discover an abundance of Christmas recipes that are simple to prepare.

These two samples of hubs you can have at home were devised with the busy host and the unforeseen visitors in mind. Earlier planning as you can see will be able save not only time but headache, stress and possible embarrassment. Now that you have a game strategy, go ahead and set your hubs then see for yourself how much they simplify entertaining guests.

 

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