If you are a healer of European cuisine, then you must love to treat yourself to a glass of expensive wine at a meal. This drink has gained popularity and does not give up a leading position. Such a noble product requires a special approach to storage. True connoisseurs collect collections from rare and valuable specimens. If you decide to acquire one, then you should familiarize yourself with how to make a wine shelf with your own hands. A description of the stages of work will be presented below. You can make constructions of this purpose yourself.
If the kitchen is limited and has little free space, you can get a vertical shelf from floor to ceiling. To carry out the work, it will be necessary to make only a few holes in the plywood sheets and fasten them together. Such a design can be used as a partition for dividing the space. If you paint the inner surface of the product, then the shelf will become a fashionable and stylish detail of the interior. But you can buy a shelf in the store, however, some home craftsmen prefer to make such designs on their own. Among other things, during the work you can use improvised materials and tools. Thus, the design will cost almost free.
Tool preparation
If you need a shelf for wine, prepare the following tools:
- drilling machine ;
- electric jigsaw;
- grinder;
- pencil;
- roulette wheel;
- building level;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- circular or handsaw.
Preparation of materials
In the hardware store you can buy dowels, cork drills, screws, a wooden pallet, and also sandpaper. The latter will be needed for surface treatment.
Technology of work
If you are going to carry out a shelf for wine, then an old pallet can form its basis. To do this, using a circular saw, it is necessary to saw it, separate part of the structure for the manufacture of the shelf. Its height should approximately be 50 cm. The next step will be the preparation of boards for the base. With the help of a nail clipper and a hammer, it is necessary to tear off two boards, while the main thing is not to break them. Three small bars should be prepared to separate and fix the bottom. The bars are sawn with an electric or manual jigsaw, and the length of these blanks should be slightly larger than the width of the boards of the pallet. They should slightly go beyond the base.
Grinding and working with holes
The wine shelf should look attractive, so the bars and boards must be sanded. This will save the product from burrs and bumps. In this case, you should use sandpaper, the grain size of which can vary from 120 to 200. You can also use grinding machines. On one of the boards you should make holes for the glasses. Pallets, as a rule, have a width of 100 cm. The holes should be standard, but they can be made in such a way that they exactly match the size of your glasses. With standard sizes of dishes, one hole should be marked, departing from the edge of the board 11.5 cm. After that, three more holes should be marked, 10 cm apart. There should be a distance from the edge of the board from 4 to 4.5 cm in width. Similar marks should be made on the other hand.
The wine shelf should have holes that are drilled or drilled. From the edge of the drilled holes to the edge of the board, marking should be carried out, cutting off the unnecessary. The resulting angles are processed with sandpaper.
Assembly
Shelves for wine can be made of different materials, but wood will be the cheapest. If you used pallets, then after carrying out all the above steps it is necessary to collect the bottom of the shelf. Glasses will be placed along the length. Parts of the bottom must be fixed with self-tapping screws, previously holes should be drilled in these places. After the bottom can be collected, it should be strengthened to the base. At the same stage, everything needs to be fixed with screws, having previously made holes for them. In this case, the possibility of splitting the board should be excluded, otherwise you will have to look for a replacement for it.
After assembly, the product should be cleaned with sandpaper and covered with stain. Once the shelves for wine are made, they can be hung on the wall. To do this, use the building level, with which points are drawn on the wall. According to the marks obtained, holes should be made with a drill, and then insert dowels into them. In the latter, screws are screwed in the length of 2.5 cm. The hats should not tightly twist, because the shelf will be removable.
Alternative shelves
Do-it-yourself shelves for wine can be made using simpler technologies. For example, a wine cabinet can be made from a wooden box. It is mounted on steel legs, and bottle openings should be made in the bottom. Between the rows is a shelf that will separate the bottles among themselves. The simplest solution is a wooden board, which is mounted horizontally to the wall. You can make holes in it using a special drill. The main subtlety is that the holes for the necks must be drilled at an angle, while the circles should be the same. The wooden plank is peeled, painted and varnished if desired.
You can independently make the shelves for wine, the simplest options may be to use water pipes, or rather, what remains of the repair of the bathroom. Using adapters, the pipes are interconnected in a zigzag design. In order for the bottles not to slide down the surface, the pipes should be bent at a certain angle.
Conclusion
You can save space with the help of a wine bar, which will be located under the table. For this, reinforcing bars that are bent in the form of hooks can be used.