How expensive,on average, does it cost to build your own basic home bar?

I'm moving into a house close to campus and my roommates and i would like to build bar in our house. Any help?How expensive,on average, does it cost to build your own basic home bar?
Parts will probably cost you anywhere from $100 to $300, depending on what you use to build it and how you plan to finish it. Labor would cost you another couple hundred, unless you do it yourself. But, I would say you could put together a pretty cool basic bar for under $500 to $600.



I designed a tropical themed bar in my house for a couple hundred in materials and paid a friend of mine a couple hundred to build it. It's made out of a couple of old bathroom vanities from my house when I had it remodeled. One is a basic 30 in wide vanity base and the other (the one that makes up the bar part - it's an L shaped bar with a sink) was more like 5 -1/2 feet long.



The long vanity is open in the back. So, that's what we used for the back of the bar. And, we installed some wood braces to support a shelf inside it that's just a sheet of plywood. We used 2x6 to form the raised part of the bar. And, then put metal shelf brackets on the front to support the weight of the bar top. So, the bar top covers the cabinet about 11 inches from the front and extends over the front of the bar by about 10 inches.



We went to a bamboo place by my house and found this woven bamboo matting that alternates dark and light colors in 1-inch diagonal strips. So, we cut that to size and used it on all vertical surfaces, front and back. For all horizontal surfaces, we used laminate bamboo flooring. We then used 2-inch strips of bamboo cane for all of the moulding.



When I had the house remodeled, I had it pre-plumbed in the corner of my den for a sink. So, it was easy to drop in a typical stainless steel bar sink. It came out really cool and would have been a lot cheaper without the sink (the sink and hardware cost about $100 by itself).