Wine Rack Plans

[custard]

Any idea where I could get plans or some inspirational design ideas for a wine rack?

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I don't know of plans but I've collected these pics off the net as possible tuits for the future. I think they should be easy to copy.

This one is my first choice, easy to add to it and make bigger.

Second choice

 

[TheTiddles]

Problem with so many designs is that they don't make an efficient use of materials or space, the second design does but it's ugly. The first design is nice but really, really expensive, if you consider the space and cost per bottle it's fine for 10 or so, but if you have 30 to 50 it'd be the size of a wardrobe. I'm trying to get my ideas together for when we have our own place, the winerack being a very important part of it, I'm interested to see what the Nibbster comes up with

Aidan

 

[custard]

Wow, that first design really has impact. I take Tiddles point, it's hardly using every square inch, but it certainly makes a statement. Deserves more than a couple of bottles of Blue Nun though.

Thanks!

 

[Rich]

Do manufacturers make refrigerators specifically for white wine bottles or do people just keep one or two bottles in the fridge? I can appreciate commercial establishments and large country houses having "cool" cellars but how do most households get by with the storage of white wine?

Rich.

 

[wizer]

yep really like that first design.

Why don't you go for Le Salvager's design. He went down to Tesco and bought a crate load of unlabelled canned food. Emptied the contents and stuck them all together, then shoved some wine bottles in it...... :lol:

 

[Shultzy]

My brother-in-law used 4" clay land drain pipes.

 

[BradNaylor]

Any idea where I could get plans or some inspirational design ideas for a wine rack?

You could do what I always do when I'm looking for inspiration

Go to Google Images and do a search.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?clien ... ages&gbv=2

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of ideas. All within a fraction of a second!

It works for anything.

Cheers
Dan

 

[BradNaylor]

Do manufacturers make refrigerators specifically for white wine bottles or do people just keep one or two bottles in the fridge? I can appreciate commercial establishments and large country houses having "cool" cellars but how do most households get by with the storage of white wine?

Rich.

Don't people just keep it in a regular wine rack and then stick a bottle in the fridge for a couple of hours before they want to open it?

Or in the freezer for 15 minutes if they forget?!

The whole concept of keeping wine in the house for more than a few hours is alien to me. I have to buy one bottle at a time on the way home from work!

Cheers
Dan

 

[OllyK]

Do manufacturers make refrigerators specifically for white wine bottles or do people just keep one or two bottles in the fridge? I can appreciate commercial establishments and large country houses having "cool" cellars but how do most households get by with the storage of white wine?

Rich.

Yes they do, some of the more expensive kitchen suppliers do them as a fitted unit.

 

[eggflan]

Do manufacturers make refrigerators specifically for white wine bottles or do people just keep one or two bottles in the fridge? I can appreciate commercial establishments and large country houses having "cool" cellars but how do most households get by with the storage of white wine?

Rich.

Our Hotpoint fridge freezer has a rack in the fridge for 5 bottles , it also has a button on the front (with a picture of a wine bottle) which you press when putting a bottle in the freezer and an alarm goes off when the bottle is cool 8) this works great as the wife was always freezing wine by forgetting she had put it in the freezer so the alarm reminds her to take it out :wink:

 

[llangatwgnedd]

In the first design, would the weight of the bottles make it all sag the higher you go, as there is no support in the center?

 

[wizer]

In the first design, would the weight of the bottles make it all sag the higher you go, as there is no support in the center?

I doubt it looking at the thickness of the timber. The Sagulator would tell you for sure.

However, I don't think that design is meant to be expanded too much. Form rather than Function.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

In the first design, would the weight of the bottles make it all sag the higher you go, as there is no support in the center?

Two boards say 19mm plus what looks like 1/2" strip ! I really don't think three or four bottles near the centre are going to bend that.