Racking Them Up

One of the fun experiences in the aftermath of our wedding has been deciding what to spend our various and fairly numerous gift cards on. Last weekend I found myself poking around Bed, Bath and Beyond's website looking to spend some plastic. I had a few ideas for what we might want to buy, one of them being some sort of wine rack to help store all the pretty wine and port glasses we got for our wedding that don't really fit in our kitchen cupboards.

Though Bed, Bath and Beyond did not have a rack to suit our particular needs, I eventually discovered that they did have the various components we would need to construct our own rack. So, I ordered a plain oak serving tray and an under-the-counter glass hanger. Then Brian and I went to the hardware store and bought some hooks and some light-gauge chain. I filched a lovely discontinued oak corner sample from the trash can at work and sawed it in half so the pieces could serve as a place to anchor the hooks to the wall.

We encountered one hitch when we discovered the wall we had decided to mount the rack on actually concealed our house's brick chimney, so we had to go back to the hardware store for a masonry bit and cement screws. It took all of Brian's formidable husband-strength to get the holes where they needed to be, and the bit was pretty well munched by the sixth hole, but luckily six holes was all we needed!


The trivet hanging underneath the glasses is another wedding gift. It mostly makes the kitchen pretty, but it is also there for snatching off the wall and placing hot things upon in a pinch.