Under-Cabinet Wine Rack

Kasey
by Kasey
There’s pride to be taken in cultivating a well-stocked liquor cabinet with specially selected spirits and your favorite fine wines. But when you have a smaller kitchen area to work with and storage space becomes a little too stuffy for your liking, it’s time to get creative to keep your cabinets working well and looking great.
Presenting the under-mounted wine rack, a literal twist on the classic wall-mounted method of decoratively displaying your best wine bottles. If you have a habit of embellishing your kitchen like I do, most of your wall space may already be occupied. Thankfully, this neat method of mounted wine storage will save you some vertical wall-space and look fantastic while doing it.
What You Will Need
To install an awesome under-mounted wine rack like that in the picture above, you will only need to gather a few materials.


Measuring Tape


Never make any modifications without measuring first! To ensure that your wine rack will function as intended, and that your cabinet will remain unblemished by mistakes, always plan and measure first.


Wine Rack


A suitable wine rack for this project can be found cheaply at most home department stores, or easily ordered online. Your mount should measure to the width of your cabinet, with enough depth for a bottle to rest on its side.


Drill and Screws


For this project you will need to drill into the bottom of your cabinet, and possibly into the wine rack itself, so bring your best drill and enough screws to support whichever model you choose.
Installation
Now that you have everything you need together, we are only a few fast steps away from enjoying our brand new wine rack! Simply follow these steps.


1. Measure and Mark


To create the sturdiest support for your wine rack, you will need to drill through the sides of your cabinet from the bottom. Plan the location of these holes by measuring and marking their intended spaces.


In most cases, however, the screw holes in a purchased wine rack will not align with the sturdy sides of a cabinet correctly. When this is the case, you will need to measure and mark new appropriately placed screw holes on the rack as well.


2.Drill Holes


Once you have your screw holes outlined, you will be ready to break out the drill.


Pre-drill the screw holes beneath your cabinet, and if necessary, make those additional holes through the wine rack so that both sets of holes can line up perfectly together.


3. Screw Wine Rack to Cabinet


Align the wine rack to its intended location at the bottom of your cabinet, and begin screwing in each hole one at a time while holding the rack firmly in place.
Display
After doing the dirty work, it’s time to stand back and appreciate your efforts. Load up the wine rack with your favorite whites, reds, rosés, or whatever else you may prefer.


While you’re at it, pour yourself a glass to celebrate a project well done.


You certainly deserve it!
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