Wine Racks Galore!

My roommate is somewhat of a wine connoisseur, so when we moved to our new apartment, you can guess the first piece of furniture she bought. Yep, a wine rack. And all in all it makes a pretty nice addition to our humble abode, storing our bottles at the optimal horizontal angle (it keeps the corks moist to prevent air from entering the bottle and spoiling the wine) and positioning our glasses at arm’s reach.

Vintage Wine Rack
Photo courtesy of
Howard Miller

Ours is wrought iron with a glass top, but wine racks come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials. For example, this console from Howard Miller ($1,500) is wood with a black coffee finish. The top even slides apart to expose a granite prep-surface, and two cabinets on each end offer abundant storage.

If you don’t have the floor space for a furniture-style rack, opt for one that mounts on the wall. This rack ($52) found at A+R Global Design is cleverly designed to suspend six wine bottles of virtually any shape and size. The best part: It goes up with just two screws. I think I could even handle that!

Wall-Mounted Wine Rack
Photo courtesy of
A+R Global Design

But if you need your wall-mount rack to hold more than just six bottles, I’d go for one of Vintage View’s holders ($61.95). They’re simple, but hung side-by-side they look pretty snazzy. In fact, my mind is already racing with possibilities in my apartment. (However, I think I need more than one bottle of wine to really put them to good use.)

To keep a chilled bottle of wine at your beck and call, consider a refrigerated console. This one from Franklin Chef is a bit pricey at $2,030.95, but it’s well worth it if you like playing host. Not only does it keep your wine nice and cold, it also makes room for cans of soda and bottled water—a sure hit at any party!

And, of course, no Home Know-It-All post is complete without a do-it-yourself option. Try this one from ReadyMade and fashion your rack from a box spring mattress.

Until tomorrow,
The Home Know-It-All