WINE & ACCESSORIES

Building Wine Storage Racks

More and more people think that building a wall mounted wine rack on their own is the best option and prefer this method to spending a lot of money on purchasing one from a wine store. In fact, there are certainly some good reasons why you too should also consider this option. The fact is that building wine storage racks is fun to do and it is also easy to complete the project without much fuss or bother. Once you are finished you will find that you can store many wine bottles in just the way that you want to store them.

There are several options available to you at the time that you start building wine storage racks including using modular systems that can save you the bother of doing everything from scratch. In fact, using modular systems has a lot of advantage in case you want to store the wine racks in a cellar since they don’t require using anchors and so can be placed wherever you want them to be placed.

With modular systems, when building wine storage racks you get almost ninety percent of the wine storage rack in pre-assembled form and each assembled part can easily be glued together and which are also strong enough to last a whole lifetime. Once you are finished building your wine  rack furniture you will find that the cost of the rack would work out to just three dollars for a single bottle of wine.

However, some people would much rather prefer to dispense with using modular systems and would in fact, be much happier building wine storage racks from bottom up and the main attraction to this option is that it allows for greater customization of the wine rack than is the case with modularly constructed wine racks. However, the secret to proper building wine storage racks from the bottom up is ensuring that you make the wine rack in such a way that it allows for easy and horizontal storage of the wine bottles. The reason why you must store the wine bottles horizontally is that it is easier to identify individual bottles because the labels are easily visible and you don’t have to lift up the bottles to see which wine is stored in the bottle.

For the adventurous wine drinker, there is nothing like DIY wine storage to get the creative juices flowing.  DIY wine storage can take almost any form that you can dream up.  You can make it big or small, elaborate or minimalist – it's all up to you, your abilities, and the space you have to work with.

One great low-cost DIY wine storage idea is to use old mailing tubes for holding bottles.  You can leave one end open and attach the other end to a stable board or other backing material.  Make sure that the tubes are at the correct angle to keep the corks wet in the bottles – then just slide your bottles in and enjoy your handiwork.

However, if you have a slim budget, then you may want to use softwoods such as fir or pine for building wine storage racks and pine especially, is rather cheap though the grain is tight as well as straight and it also has enough strength to safely hold your wine bottles.

The bottom line as far as building a wall mounted wine rack goes understands that you need to ensure enough storage space and also choose a proper wood to make the finished product something to be proud of and in addition, it should also have good functionality as well.