Hands up! Someone mentioned this tip recently, and so we took a snap of a friend's wooden stemware rack over the weekend (they use two put together). We use one at home as well.
Of all glasses, wine glasses take up the most room and yet are the prettiest to look at. So why hide them indoors? Wooden stemware racks can be had for a song (@ $20), are well made of oak (usually), and easily screw into sheetrock ceilings (as well as others). There isn't much weight being held up here, so complicated anchors aren't needed. Available at all these places. MGR
I've also installed this kind of system inside a kitchen cabinet, as it frees up space beneath the hanging glasses.
Doesn't airborne kitchen grease and dust congeal on them like flies to carrion?
Only if you are preparing Deep-Fried Flies and Carrion.
Place I use to live, when the dishwasher was in use, the stemware use to chime together.
Makes the place look too much like a bar? And at 6'4, I bang my head on 'em.
Ikea makes 'em even cheaper ;) but as more of a traditionalist, I would prefer some wood ones, especially if I could stain them.
I'm so unimganitive that I just lived with the nuisance of shevles and shelves of wine glasses without even considering something like this. Then when I saw the condo that I eventually bought, on of the reasons I loved it was because it had a stemware rack like this under the counter. Duh!
Better late than never I guess; they really are great!
These are real classy racks. http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeovrht/index.html
Nice glass racks here, and inexpensive too.