Wine storage project

[Riverat]

Well I've found the perfect spot to build in a wine rack / cellar. still cutting pieces (about 600 so far, some assembly required, batteries not included...


Wine rack to be.jpg



wine rack.xls

So far I've reduced a stack of lumber 1 1/2 ft X 2 ft X 8 ft to a stack less than half that and a few boxes of pieces and a jig (and a mountain of sawdust!)
Will have 274 bottles of storage in a 4 ft X 6 ft floor space with an area for bulk storage and fermenting and temp control to boot.....wondered what I would ever do with that space between phase two and three of the house!

[caffeine211]

Good luck on the project! Very jealous that you have the space for all those bottles... especially since my current system is cramming stuff into any open floor/shelf space!

[Chevette Girl]

Nice!!

I've been gradually fixing up my space too... currently it's like this, I made the wooden grid out of 1/4" plywood to fit dessert size bottles, and what you can't see are the two other storebought racks like the top one are behind the removable countertop, and I've got two other shelves on the other side of the freezer which are full of wine cases on their sides as extra shelving... I'm always trying to keep the area tidy and organized, but it's like one of those slidey-puzzles with one tile missing so you have to manoeuver everything around using your one bit of free space... only I don't have that missing tile to work with, the space is full of dirty wine bottles




(oops, this is an older picture, the big freezer is out of there and a chrome wine rack fits in beside the little one that's there now... what did I do with the new photo, I know I took one... bet it's still in the camera )

Edit: found it...


The blue sheet protects the whites and the small bottles rack from the fluorescent lights, the shelf and countertop protect teh reds below, and everything else is in a case and/or has a collection of junk piled up in front of it...

[Riverat]

There always "just" enough space isn't there? Not sure where I'd put a visitor at the moment, until I get out of construction mode the spare room is pretty much the mead room, been getting out of hand that way so I undertook this project to reclaim the spare bedroom...anything worth doing at all is worth doing to excess....a genetic characteristic of us Houghtaling's!

[darkangel]

Wow, nice wine cellars.

By the way, I'm planning to build my wine cellar at home, any suggestion?

[Riverat]

Well finding dark, cool (or controlable) space you can spare is the hardest part, after that is bought found or built. Poke around the internet after you have found your space to get some ideas after that.

[Riverat]

Wine Rack.jpg

Finaly got off my butt and finished the rack, cooling by summer?

[Marshmallow Blue]

What an absolute beast. Very nice work. Hope you never move. Looks like it'd be pretty tough.

[Riverat]

Thanks and yea, you could park a truck on it and it's built in, not subject to being moved (kinda like me) so whoever I leave this place to ought to have or develop a taste for wine and anything I didn't polish off

[TheAlchemist]

Originally Posted by Riverat

Thanks and yea, you could park a truck on it and it's built in, not subject to being moved (kinda like me) so whoever I leave this place to ought to have or develop a taste for wine and anything I didn't polish off

Wow. I am very proud of you. You do awesome work. But please don't go leaving this beautiful bluegreen earth any time soon, OK?

[Altricious]

Beautiful rack. You should hire out.

[Riverat]

Originally Posted by TheAlchemist

Wow. I am very proud of you. You do awesome work. But please don't go leaving this beautiful bluegreen earth any time soon, OK?

Nooo, I plan on hanging around many more years, after all while it's the only game in town, hands down life's the best game in town!

[Medsen Fey]

Originally Posted by Altricious

Beautiful rack...

Not something you usually hear said about a guy.
(But clearly appropriate here!)

[Altricious]

Originally Posted by Medsen Fey

Not something you usually hear said about a guy.
(But clearly appropriate here!)

As a busty girl, the irony was not lost on me.

Also, I curbed the urge to be more suggestive in my suggestion he hire himself out.

[Riverat]

Originally Posted by Altricious

As a busty girl, the irony was not lost on me.

Also, I curbed the urge to be more suggestive in my suggestion he hire himself out.

LMAO!! Urges curbed...here?! well now I'm not free but can be pretty cheap, I do great work for meals and drinks!

[Marshmallow Blue]

Ill trade you a high quality McDonald's meal of your choosing for one wine rack. I might even throw in a can of Budweiser for your trouble. I will also expect the rack to be filled with your greatest meads to date.
Your client,
Marshmallow blue

[Altricious]

Originally Posted by Marshmallow Blue

Ill trade you a high quality McDonald's meal of your choosing for one wine rack. I might even throw in a can of Budweiser for your trouble. I will also expect the rack to be filled with your greatest meads to date.
Your client,
Marshmallow blue

I'd make a better offer than that, but I'd also want the whole wall wine rack in return. Steak, good beer and ANY dessert of your choice.

Alas, you are very far away and I would not expect anyone to travel so far to be my slave.

[psychopomp23]

Originally Posted by Medsen Fey

Not something you usually hear said about a guy.
(But clearly appropriate here!)

Well you know...Great racks are hard to find!

[TheAlchemist]

Well!
If we're all placing our orders...
How'd you feel about a bison roast?

[Riverat]

Yes well thanks all!! The travel per diem may wind up being prohibitive.....but "any dessert" "Bison"? Now if I just didn't have this whole job thing and could roam at will, I can just see it....have saw, will travel