'Dear Father' Dismantled sacred objects are no longer blessed
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An altar should never be used for such a common purpose. Your husband would likely agree that it would be wrong to take sacred chalices and start using them as beer mugs.
So, what to do? When anything sacred is taken apart, melted or otherwise radically changed, the Church no longer considers it blessed. Thus, while it would be wrong to use an altar as a bar, there is nothing sacrilegious about using materials from an altar for something else, including a bar, as long as common sense is used. It is, after all, the altar as such is blessed, not the wood and nails.
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