Bar - Liquor display ideas?

Sounds like a good plan to start with. You could also line up bottles along the window sill too....

Are you expecting a raid?

I know light and heat are not good for beer and wine. I doubt they are good for most distilled spirits as well.

I had a similiar situation. I installed built in shelves in back of my bar.

I have added a picture of built in Bar shelves that I built with a friend of mine. I think they look good. They give me more space in the area.
Check them out in my gallery(pictures 2 and 3).


Here is the link:

http://www.blu-ray.com/community/gallery.php?member=RegeG

Is the bar fixed? Looks like you have the room to move it away from the window a couple feet. You could then put in some wall-mount cabinets on either side of the window, and maybe built-in cabinets below the window. The wall cabinets could have doors, or open fronts, with shelves.

I'd put a shade over that window, and maybe build a valence between the on-wall cabinets, to cover the retracted shade. Matching shade on the other window. Shades controlled with remote.

I'm not a big fan of displaying what bottles I have available. Maybe just the unusual bottles, e.g. single malts, liqueurs, single batch bourbons.. My friends drink enough without the visible advertising!

Some people like the 'bar look' - maybe some low voltage uplighting below glass shelves?

How about a stained glass insert over the window. You could then do a back bar shelving like I did. It's only six inches off the wall. See my build link below.