Win Your Dream Home Bar in This Contest

Calling all home bartenders and interior design enthusiasts: Tip Top Proper Cocktails wants to make your dream home bar a reality. The ready-to-drink cocktail company, which offers a variety of canned classics, including the Old Fashioned, Whiskey Sour, and Paper Plane, among others, that are complex, stiff, and of cocktail bar quality, has just launched its Proper Cocktail Parlour contest, wherein participants submit their vision of the ultimate home bar setup.

From now until Thursday, April 30, you can submit an in-depth description of your ideal home bar on the Tip Top proper website. Don’t hold any descriptive punches—this is your chance to fully conceptualize the home bar daydreams you’ve held, right down to the cocktail napkins. The winner will see their fantasy home bar come to life, or at least get a good head start on it, thanks to a $5,000 cash reward and several additional prizes, among them a Klaris Clear Ice Maker, a Cocktail Kingdom glassware set, a selection of Tip Top Proper cocktails, and a design consultation with Natalie Migliarini, the founder of Beautiful Booze.

A panel of bartenders and cocktail experts will select the winner based on the entry that best displays creativity and design flair, as well as a point of view on what good hospitality is. The winner’s home bar will be built fairly soon after that—don't fret if you don't already have one in place, as entrants can start from scratch—with a final renovation reveal slated for early summer. Will you be throwing your design hat into the ring?

Take Some Inspiration

Whether or not you’ll be submitting your own home bar design entry, don’t sleep on the space—the very best home bars are legitimately decorative parts of a property. HGTV’s Orlando Soria once gave us some tips on transforming the home bar, in case you want some inspiration, or take notes from fellow whisky lovers who created remarkable spaces for their bottles within their homes.