Build your own wine racks from old bottles

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Wine is a special drink and should be stored accordingly. There are people who buy a special wine refrigerator for this purpose, so that the wine always has the right temperature. As a rule, however, you will find wine racks for storage.

Many are looking for an alternative to the usual, commercially available wine racks. One way is to build your own wine racks. If these are then made from old wine bottles, that also means a wonderful eye-catcher.

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For your wine racks you need 3 boards that have already been pre-treated, measuring 12 x 65 x 2 cm. You should also get older 1 liter wine bottles, 21 of them. This is because they have a conical bottle neck that is suitable for the Assembly important is.

  1. Drill 2 holes on the right and left of your boards for screwing. Measure the shelf so that you can mount 7 wine bottles. Now mill out the first hole. This must be so big that the bottle neck of the wine bottle just barely fits through.
  2. When that's done, plug in a wine bottle and place the next so you can mark the spot for the next hole. Now mill out the next hole. You then have to countersink the holes slightly.
  3. Do this until you can make a row of 7 wine bottles. Before you do this, you have to mark the holes for mounting on the wall.
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  4. Now drill the four required holes and insert your dowels there.
  5. Now insert the bottles with the bottle neck as far as possible into the holes that you previously provided with superglue.
  6. For additional security, once everything has dried well, attach a strong rubber band to each bottle neck to prevent it from slipping back.
  7. For wall mounting, you need screws that are long enough that you can now screw the shelf together until the bottle necks hit the wall. Work particularly carefully here and do not exert any pressure. As soon as the bottle necks are in contact with the wall, the assembly is finished.
  8. This is how you create three such wine racks, which you can either mount one below the other or offset. You can now slide 6 bottles of wine into each of these shelves.
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