Introduction

Let me open your eyes to a whole new way of proper wine storage! This first set of cabinets I call 'The Old Country'. I have done many different things with this design: The exterior features the retro look of an old ice box. But instead of the three doors opening, I decided to make faux doors. Only one large door opens so the whole interior is accessible.
The interior has a wall-to-wall trellis complete with arches. The side latticework and the wine cradles lock into this vertical trellis.
I placed a picture on the back wall to give the interior a true 3-D look and have provided many pictures you can choose from.
A floor version (with an ice-box single faux door) has a toe kick space built into the front and is notched at the rear to slip over most baseboard and shoe mouldings so it can fit snugly against a wall.
Each of the upper and lower units can hold 30 bottles of wine. Each cradle can hold two 750ml or one 750ml and one 1.5l bottle.
The interiors are spacious so the bottles are not stacked on top of each other.
The bottles are tilted at the proper angle so the corks are half-wet.
The labels are readable; no more disturbing the sediment while you search for the one you want.
There is enough hand clearance to insert and remove each bottle without disturbing the others.
The upper unit is designed to sit on top of a credenza or you can add the base unit (combo) which sits on the floor.
The tilted cradles are for the corked bottles; capped bottles can stand upright in the middle.
The middle can also hold larger bottles if your taste is el-grande! Simply remove the middle shelf to put in Magnum sized bottles and larger.
My interlocking design with a built-in doweling system means glue isn't necessary in most places.
The door hinges and latches are reproductions from the ice-box days.
The entire cabinet is moderately insulated and sealed to prevent wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
Even though I have greatly simplified this cabinet from my early designs, there are still 119 individual pieces of wood making up its construction! Then there are the hinges, latch, door seals, hidden screws etc...
The exterior plywood and face frame will be glued and secured with screws from the Kreg system of hidden joinery. Kreg Tool
You must specify what direction the door opens so I can hang it properly. If you are looking at the cabinet with the door closed and the latch is on the left, I call this a 'left handed door', or 'latch on the left'.
A nice touch you can consider is a rich dark look for the exterior and a lighter color inside to make it brighter for label reading.
Please note that I built these prototypes from spare oak and hickory I already had in my shop. I haven't yet decided what the final wood will be.
If I get up to fifty orders then I can build these in my current shop. If I get a huge number of orders then I will have to get a bigger shop and help.
I also celebrate diversity in wood so I don't only use straight grain in my products. If available I will also mix the colors, so you must expect this. If you desire an outer cabinet in only straight grain you must request this specially and the extra sorting and waste will cost more.
This cabinet (in the current prototype of oak) weighs about 85 pounds. Thirty regular bottles of wine weigh another 90 pounds, so only set this on something that can hold that much weight safely.
Let's talk about the price. The upper and lower cabinets hold sixty bottles of wine combined. Normal wine is about $20 so this is a $1200 investment. Shouldn't you store that properly in a protected environment which will last through decades of use? How many of those cheap refrigerated units will you have to replace over the next thirty years at $300 each? And those are really for cooling a wine for serving it soon, not for long term storage. The prices for my cabinets will go up later, Kickstarter funders are getting a good deal.
Sorry, wine is NOT included!
Comes fully assembled, shipping is extra.