We’ve got a cabinet in which we’ve had a small wooden wine rack from Cost Plus. I’ve been planning to build in something better for a while, though nothing as fancy as the refrigerated units that have become popular lately. I worked the following up in Sketchup to just fit in through the cabinet doors as a fully assembled unit, so it’s not quite built in and permanent but maximizes the space. The bottom row is sized for larger bottles, the uppers for standard, and the left most column for small, though given the way I built it a small bottle could go in any spot without falling through…for some reason most wine racks have the main members up and down so small bottles just don’t work.
I’m learning how to use an HVLP sprayer at the moment. I’m not completely happy with the results, but have two coats each top and bottom on most of the pieces and in a few minutes will put what should be the final touches on the staining. Tomorrow I’ll be working on the clear coat. I really don’t like finish work, mostly because I’m not good at it due to lack of practice and I’m worried that I’m going to destroy something I put a lot of wood working work into. I’m hoping with practice the sprayer will make for better quality results and less stress.
I’ve used paint grade poplar and am staining it an antique cherry color. This is the same wood I used for the TV stand and is a candidate stain for that also. By starting on something that will ultimately be closed away out of sight in a cabinet, I might get confident enough to then stain the TV stand. And if that doesn’t work out well: I can always just paint it white…that’ll go with the room too.
In the meantime: staining is time consuming work even with the sprayer and my tiny garage shop can’t handle more than one project at a time so I need to get this finished (pun intended)…
