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nope, too many shameless friends. I put them out of plain site and save for appropriate events.

I'm fortunate to have a mirrored bar at the apartment so I've got my bottles lining the shelves. It makes entertaining easier for me b/c guests can help themselves.
I doubt I'll be as lucky at the next place so will probably conceal all but the basics then.

(And if you make martinis, you want your liquors at room temperature to melt the ice a bit. Something I learned from The Peacock Lounge at a cocktails class. Now there's more space in my freezer)

As much as I detest the frat house aesthetic based on decorating with empty liquor bottles, this is a nice look for a vacation home. It sorta says, take your shoes off, make yourself a drink, we're all friends here. Not at all approriate for my live/work loft where I hold client meetings, but maybe when I finally buy that cottage property.

I hate to dust, so I keep mine in a cupboard, and bring it out when we have company.

i'm a fan of the lamp, the table, the wall color, the beam in the corner, and the ceiling... not so much the liquor. looks like it would be a lot of glass to dust. frequently.

We keep ours in the open, but only because we're grad students who never really outgrew our undergrad decorating "sense" when it comes to alcohol. So the liquor lives in plain sight, row upon row, lined up in a strange little alcove that came with the apartment, with some shelving above it to store highball and wine glasses and a wine "rack" (made from a box - pure class!) The plus-side to this alcove method is it keeps dust off the glasses and bottles, and makes use of an awkward space that otherwise would only be good for storing, i dunno, more textbooks. And at heart, i do think all those multi-coloured bottles look rather pretty. At least i convinced the significant other to finally take down the "Periodic Table of Mixology" poster that used to accompany this fantastic scene!

I used to have a stand with stylings akin to an Eileen Gray side table where I kept bottles and tools as well as wine and martini glasses. The above posters are correct... dust was a huge problem, but it was a great little table with three tiers and I loved the look after applying a shot of Windex now and again.

i someday want to have a little bar cart in my living room. i love the look of beautiful decanters and well designed bottles of liquor. maybe when we buy a house...

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I love this. It looks like a steampunk laboratory. I store mine on the bottom shelf of a built-in in my dining area because I haven't got anywhere else, but I'd like to keep it out set a little higher. The bottles are pretty.

We've got a very high shelf in our kitchen so our booze goes there. On display and not too low to get in the way.

I think it's cool but with concrete floors and a cat, I can only admire the photo.

All my bottles sit in the bottom of a weirdly configured corner cabinet. Like renata, I have tile floors and cats.

If I had a hutch or a bar cabinet, I would consider putting them in there.

We have a lot of friends who have alcohol issues -- either drink too much or are in AA -- so when we have liquor in the house, I never display it. Easier to avoid the issue.

Isn't it bad for the alcohol to sit in a lot of sunlight like that?

@lemongelatin- no, the liquor is probably going to be fine. The lightstruck problem is really just beer and wine (ultraviolet rays produce chemical reactions that lead to "off" or "skunky" tastes). Liquor is distilled and going to be more stable, also why you can leave bottles of it open forever without them becoming unpalatably oxidized, as would be the case with wine and beer.

Our liquor cabinet has glass doors, and the cabinet itself was built over a window:

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Hmm... I should make sure that window is locked.

I keep my gin in the refrigerator so my martinis will be as cold as possible. My son hides his Springbank scotch in his closet, but leaves the Johnny Walker in sight.