How to Build Your Own Custom Wine Rack
A wine rack is essential for displaying, storing, and protecting your vintage bottles within your home or restaurant/bar. Although Wine Rack Store has a huge collection of superb and innovative wine racks for just about every need, there are some times when a cookie-cutter design just doesn’t fit the bill. Instead, a custom wine rack adds a touch of personalisation and lets you maximise space for storing your wine.
There aren’t too many places where you can easily build a custom wine rack, but Wine Rack Store does have a bevy of options to choose from letting you have your very own personalised wine rack. Here’s how to get started:
Determine Your Storage Needs
Perhaps one of the most important first considerations when building your custom wine rack is to figure out what you’ll use it for. No, it’s not meant to sound silly - your wine rack could be a perfect place to store spirits, champagne, fizzy water, or all sorts of other beverages that may not have the same bottle dimensions as a standard bottle of wine.
Of course, you should also consider the size and dimensions. If you’re choosing custom over a pre-built wine rack, there may be a pretty good chance that none of the pre-builts can practically fit in your storage room or they might be a little awkward. Custom lets you free up space by allowing designs that are a perfect fit for your needs.
Lastly, you should also do a little paper maths and estimate your storage needs in terms of how many bottles you intend to hold. Restaurants should put effort into this and perhaps have a buffer of around 30% more space than necessary to account for future storage needs. Generally, consider ordering a rack that holds around a third more bottles than you think you need right now.
Choose Your Own Bespoke Style
Once you’ve gotten the basic dimensions and size out of the way and you’ve got a custom wine rack in mind that will fit your needs, it’s time to think about design and style.
Traditionally, wood and metal are amongst the most popular materials used followed by acrylic components and framing. All have their strengths and features, with wood being certainly one of the most timeless in appearance whilst offering superb strength. Oak, pine, and other wood species are great, and fancy finishes are also important to think about.
Shop Within Your Budget
A good wine rack should be thought of as an investment, one that will go towards securing what is perhaps an even bigger investment: your collection of fine vintages. In other words, don’t go too cheap on a good wine rack, but don’t overspend either.
Moreover, wood and metal framing (or any combination thereof) should give you plenty of durability which is essential for not having to deal with repairing or replacing the rack and keeping your wine bottles securely in place for many years to come.
To get great custom wine racks built with great materials and at great prices, it does pay to shop around. Shop for wine racks that fit within your budget by choosing an online supplier such as Wine Rack Store.
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