How to make a wine rack or wine rack

Since the moment humanity has learned to cultivate grapes, it has taken care of the issue of processing and storage of the fruits of this plant. This is how the art of winemaking arose, which has been around for about 8000 years.

The benefits of the drink, consumed in small doses, have been proven by modern medicine - daily drinking two glasses of wine is an excellent prevention of cardiovascular diseases and prolongs human life by an average of several years.

Surely, everyone has a couple of bottles of divine nectar, and we habitually store it in the refrigerator or wherever we have to. Storage requires special, certain conditions. Acquiring an aesthetic and stylish shelf or wine rack in modern realities will not be difficult. But making an individual cabinet or shelves for storing wine in bottles with your own hands is quite within the power and does not take much time.

How to make a wine rack or wine rack

If you are the lucky owner of a country estate, then the issue of keeping the gifts of Dionysus can be solved in the best way. Just equip a real wine cellar in compliance with all the rules and regulations and enjoy a noble drink all year round. For urban conditions, a self-made rack or wine shelf, preserving all the taste qualities, is suitable.

Following generally accepted storage conditions:

• optimal temperature range - 10-15 ° Celsius.
  

  NOTE! At a higher storage temperature, the wine quickly “ages”: the “flavor bouquet” becomes less delicate and refined. Low temperature starts the oxidation process of the drink and the ripening stops;

• the optimum level of humidity in the room is 60%. It will prevent the cork from drying out and loss of tightness;
• the main storage condition is to prevent direct sunlight from getting on the bottles, the sun destroys the drink;
• obligatory arrangement of bottles is horizontal.
  

  ATTENTION! This rule only applies to corks made from natural materials, bottles with synthetic corks can be stored in any position;

• static and calm. With shaking and vibration, deterioration of the flavors of the qualities of wine is ensured.

We decide on a place in the apartment where we plan to place the future structure - as a rule, this is the kitchen, dining area and living area. With a modest square, you should opt for stands and shelves that save space and are mounted on the wall, and with sufficient space, you can, for example, start making a wine cabinet from wood with your own hands.

The choice of material for manufacturing

Undoubtedly, the best material for the manufacture of this piece of furniture is wood. But there are no less attractive and more budgetary materials with which it is possible to embody the most daring idea and it will look appropriate in any interior:

• round billets in the form of tubes from newspapers, paper and cardboard;
• used tin cans, painted in bright colors;
• wooden scraps and various round-shaped bars of small length and appropriate width;
• plywood sheets with fasteners in the form of metal loops, leather strips;
• forged metal;
• metal, chrome-plated pipes;
• various types of building pipes (PVC, drainage, cylindrical building forms).

Instrument preparation

Prepare the following tools for work:

• simple pencil;
• special self-tapping screws of different sizes;
• construction tape;
• sandpaper;
• building level;
• electric jigsaw;
• screwdriver;
• grinder;
• electric drill;
• hand or circular saw.

Making a special shelf

The simplest and most original solution is to make a shelf from a wooden board, which will be horizontally attached to the wall. Even a beginner can do this work, the main subtlety is to make holes with a special drill. Drill slightly at an angle and make sure that the circumference of the resulting holes is the same.

Then the wooden surface should be cleaned, varnished in several layers or painted in a color suitable for the interior. All that remains is to hang the shelf in a darkened place and place a few of your favorite bottles on it, waiting for the right occasion to enjoy the delicious taste and aroma.

How to make a wine rack

When there are a lot of bottles in the house, for example, a whole battery or a shelf, you can organize and make a whole vertical structure for them from floor to ceiling. It is usually used for installation in a cellar or basement of a residential building at a sufficiently low temperature and ideally retains all the taste of the product.

We take several pallets of the same size, disassemble them into pieces and on bars, which were the frame of the pallets, using a construction tape measure precisely the locations of the holes and mark them with a pencil. We drill several semicircular holes with a jigsaw. After that, we connect the boards with self-tapping screws and carefully "clean" with sandpaper. If the wooden parts have defects, then it is worth filling them up, and covering the finished rack with varnish, stain or paint.

How to make a wine storage cabinet

IMPORTANT! You should not save on the material of manufacture, use valuable wood with high moisture resistance (ash, Karelian birch, oak, walnut) in the construction of the cabinet. And do not fill it entirely - leave room for items of the future collection.

1. Prepare a drawing with the exact dimensions and layout of the internal shelves. Keep in mind that the depth of the shelves should not be less than the height of the bottles.
2. Assemble two frames: front and back. To do this, fasten the timber with self-tapping screws, using corners for rigidity.
3. We cover the frame with a pre-sanded and coated board with protective compounds.
4. Cut out partitions from plywood sheets with a width equal to the depth of the cabinet.
5. On the shelves at an angle of 90 ° C, we make cuts according to the size of the cells and rigidly connect them to the vertical partitions. We attach this structure to the back wall of the cabinet.
6. We paint the cabinet or process it with paints and varnishes.

There is no single correct solution when choosing a wine rack. The material of manufacture, size, decor and distinctive features of the structure are determined by your abilities and capabilities.

It is quite possible to make a nice piece of furniture. After all, there is nothing more pleasant than an interior composition made with your own hands and filled with comfort, warmth and light.

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