Looking for wine rack ideas.

[tbragsdale]

I good work friend has moved into a small condo. She, before her divorce, owned part of a winery, so she will have more bottles than space no matter what.

This little space in her kitchen she wants to put something workable into.

Her first idea was a simple X, but I think I can do better.

Welcome any ideas, or pics.

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TBR

[maxwell_smart007]

I would either go simply, and put some boards with notches cut into them to support the neck,

Or go big - putting sliding wine holders that pull out on drawer slides...

Either way, make sure the wine bottles are tipped slightly downward, to keep the corks moist (else the wine can develop off-flavours)

ANdrew

[Cody Colston]

Clay drainage tiles stacked inside the cabinet would provide individual compartments for the bottles. PVC pipe would do the same thing except that it would be a little uglier unless you used a facing panel with holes to match the PVC openings.

Cody
Tyler, TX

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose.

[rhull]

You could put a trash compacter back in that hole and store the wine in there. :+ Then if she needs to compact some trash, she can empty all the bottles and get dual use out of the thing.

[tbragsdale]

Hadn't considered tile, good idea.

[tbragsdale]

The X idea gets more bottles for the space, but I think it would be a pain in the a**.

The rail with half moon cutouts looks nice, but loose lots of space behind. Thinking of a door that has the rails, and back shelfs.

[dcarter636]

I like Cody's idea of the clay pipe, it would have considerable thermal inertia which is a very good thing to have in a storage rack.

I guess you already know that an X rack is about as space efficient as you can get when each opening holds four or more bottles. Seems to me that a front, a center, and a rear matching X lattices (or is that latti?), with an occasional dowel joining them, all contained in a simple box case structure would be sufficient.

I did one with notched 1x4 rails for a 144 bottle basement rack, it had an awful lot of air space at 8' wide and 7' high when I thought space was not a real concern.

[dbriski]

Not sure if it would be deep enough, but if you set up one set of racks in the back then you could make another self standing set on wheels that could be pulled out to access the 2nd rack and then put nice doors that matche the rest of the cabinets.

[DougB]

Boy am I glad that life if much simpler for a beer drinker. Gimme an old fridge and I can take care of any storage problems with very little effort. Good luck Toby. :)

[JBark]

>The X idea gets more bottles for the space, but I think it
>would be a pain in the a**.

Remember that to make the cross pieces you take a piece of material, say 3/4" x 3/4" and make ninety degree notches in it, half way through, to accept another piece with the same notch. The notches are spaced about 3-1/2". You could set up a dado in your table saw and cut dados in boards, then rip the boards into the 3/4" pieces. The ends are cut at 45 degrees..

As another poster pointed out, if you can have a two tier depth(?) the space will be used more efficiently. Perhaps framing the rack and hinging it?

Keep in mind that light degrades red wine.

John