Look! DIY Wine Rack

This wine rack was built by Lauren and Eric Wendlandt of Framework Design. We toured the exterior of their home during this summer's My Great Outdoors event, and couldn't wait to take a look inside...

This wine rack is a preview of the inventive DIY used throughout the mixed-use home and workplace. Here, stainless steel rods were through-bolted onto a walnut wood wall. Their spacing is such that they support wine bottles in this one-of-a-kind design. Look for more from these two in their upcoming house tour. (thanks, Lauren and Eric!)

Images: 1: Regina Yunghans, 2: courtesy of Framework Design

Comments (11)

nice

posted by sunan on October 23rd 2009 at 1:33pm
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Looking forward to the tour. The photo caught my interest and I want to see more.

posted by mei-ling on October 23rd 2009 at 1:34pm
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Love it. It must not be a coincidence that the bottle tops are all different colors. :)

posted by MODERnestS on October 23rd 2009 at 1:39pm
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Beautiful and discreet, but I wish the photos gave a sense of where they installed it-- one wouldn't want 10" rods protruding from the wall just anywhere.

posted by shirley-temple-of-doom on October 23rd 2009 at 1:52pm
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Simple and attractive, but of course it would look great with all those gorgeous wine bottles of varying colors.

posted by guz on October 23rd 2009 at 2:07pm
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Love this. Of course it would be best suited for an area of the house that doesn't get much sunlight.

"Stainless steel rods were cut, sanded, polished and thru-bolted to a floating walnut panel..."

Do you mean you sanded the threads off of the rod?

posted by art on October 23rd 2009 at 2:08pm
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Very pretty. Looking forward to the house tour.

posted by 1GH on October 23rd 2009 at 2:13pm
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Surely I cannot be the only person who would be incapable of not knocking them all to the floor every time I walked by.

posted by stegersaurus on October 23rd 2009 at 3:44pm
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Thanks for all the wonderful comments. To answer some of your questions, the wine rack is located above a lower cabinet so it doesn't receive traffic walking directly in front of it. Unfortunately, with our setup, the rack is located near a large sliding glass door, as all other wall real estate was taken up with the kitchen cabinets (you'll see when the tour is posted). Regarding the rods. We actually bought 1/2" diameter aluminum rod from a local metal supply shop and cut them to 12" lengths. Using our router table with an 1/8" round-over bit, we softened the ends. Because the material was raw, we sanded them with steel wool to clean them and give them a soft matte finish (resembling stainless steel). Drilling and tapping the other end gave us the means to thru-bolt them to the walnut panel. Hope that helps clarify things. Again, thanks for all the kind words!

posted by eric_wendlandt on October 23rd 2009 at 4:13pm
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Pachinko!

posted by t3d on October 23rd 2009 at 5:43pm
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September Wines in NYC's Lower East Side has a similar peg board rack system that we did about 4 years ago.
You can see it on my website on the "Interior" page http://shellymcclure.com/interior.html

posted by macy529 on October 27th 2009 at 10:04am
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