Having a hard time choosing wine rack plans to build your own wine rack?
When you decide to build your own wine rack, you can select ready-made bottle rack plans or choose to design your own plan. Either way, the whole process can be fun and puzzling. For one thing, you want to build an item that is truly tailored to your own needs. On the other hand, you can’t help but feel overwhelmed by the immense design possibilities.
To reduce confusion when navigating bottle rack plans, carefully consider the exact or likely items that will be stored, and the space that the finished DIY project will occupy. When reviewing your wine rack plans, consider dimensions such as wine bottles, wine cases, and wine glasses that will be stored.
Many times, you can’t be exactly sure what your finished wine rack will hold. In that case, it would be wise to choose a rack plan that incorporates as much flexibility as possible, or at least some form of flexibility. incorporating drawers and cabinets of different dimensions.
Drawers provide excellent storage because they can hold many different items while keeping them clean and accessible, but out of sight. Cabinets are easy to build and can be used to display your collections if you don’t install doors.
Design to fit a particular space
If you are designing a wine rack to suit a particular space, you will want to visually adjust the space. When working on your bottle rack plans, be careful not to take up all the available space. Leave some space on both sides and above to create a kind of visual frame. Often times, you may want to combine existing cabinets, such as building a wine cabinet to serve as a dedicated base cabinet to match the style of your kitchen or living room.
Sometimes you can borrow design elements from a nearby piece of furniture, such as a particular edge profile or door frame treatment. You can further personalize your wine rack by “signing” it with your own custom wood handles or a faux finish.
Allowing for future expansion
Don’t forget to plan ahead, especially if you have more than one wine collector in the family! You may think that you will never buy more than 48 bottles of wine in one go. Uh huh. In either case, add some extra space (preferably a lot more) up front. You may also want to choose a design that still looks good as you add more units.
How to dress your wine rack
Do you know that you can build a wine rack that looks expensive and elegant? You can dress your wine rack relatively inexpensively using sheet metal. In case you didn’t know, veneer is true wood!
Veneer is a thin slice of wood cut from a log with a cutting, peeling, or sawing machine. It is used in plywood, fine furniture, and laminated shapes for decorative and architectural purposes. Before a log is cut into veneer, it is often steamed or immersed in a very hot water bath.
This “cooking” process softens the log so that the veneers can be cut without tearing or splitting. Once the veneer is cut, it is pressed flat between the heated plates and grouped into piles in the same order it was removed from the log.
Veneer opens up a whole new world of woodworking for even the most experienced craftsman. With an exotic varnish, simple DIY projects can be turned into works of art. In fact, a raised veneer can often be the qualifying feature that makes a wine rack project stand out far above the rest.
Veneer gives you a unique opportunity to work with some of the most beautiful and exotic woods in the world without having to dip into your retirement account. Veneer has several distinct advantages over solid wood that cannot be overlooked. For example, veneer allows you to match an exposed back panel to the wood in your box without having to purchase a complete piece of expensive plywood. It is these advantages that have brought the art of veneer to most professional furniture and furniture stores.
The good news is that with the right tools, lining is relatively easy and is now becoming a common technique used by weekend warriors to turn even the most mundane wine rack projects into heirloom-quality masterpieces.
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